Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington May 15-17, 2026
Friday
6:00pm–6:30pm Dinner served
Saturday
7:45am–8:15am Breakfast served
9:00am–10:00am Kirsten Carithers: “Interpretive Labor Then and Now”
10:00am–10:15am Break
10:15am–11:45am Paper Session I
Nathan Reeves: “Musical Labor, Moral Economy, and Professional Culture”
Sonnet Retman: “Willis James and the Labor of Song Collecting”
Kimberly Hannon Teal: “Jazz Festivals, Black Labor, and White Leisure”
12:00pm–12:30pm Lunch served
1:00pm–2:00pm John R. Pippen: “Music In Need of Some Explanation: Program Notes, Social Media, and
the Use Value of Contemporary Classical Music”
2:00pm–2:15pm Break
2:15pm–3:45pm Paper Session II
Justin Tremayne Wilson: “Conform to Perform”
Natalie Ferrell: “It’s Hard Work if You Can Get It”
Seth Brodsky: “Music’s Demand”
3:45pm–4:30pm Break
4:30pm–6:00pm Keynote: Marianna Ritchey, “Labor Struggles and the Need for Utopian Critique”
6:00pm–6:30pm Dinner served
7:30pm–9:00pm Roundtable With Community Members
Nate Omdal and Rose Martin (Moderator: Mark Rodgers)
Sunday
10:00am–10:30 am Brunch served