All sessions are virtual and completely free. Registration is required. Please register for each session you plan to attend using the Zoom registration links below.
Elizabeth McLain, “Access Forward: Principles and Possibilities for Community-Driven Research”
“Care on Hold: Pharmacy Hold Music, Access Intimacy, and the Sonic Politics of Chronic Illness”
JD Davids, Moira Williams, and Forest Kamerin
“I Live in the Woods of My Words: Intersecting Song, Poetry, Voice”
Molly Joyce, Eric Whitmer
Chair: Jill Rogers
Emma Jensen, “Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield: Body Size and Race as a Marker of ‘Popular’”
Marie Comuzzo, “Training ‘Pure Musical Vessels’: Fatphobia and Body Policing of Classical Instrumentalists”
Anna Valcour, “Up to Code: Interrogating Fatphobia in American Young Artist Programs’ Audition ‘Uniforms’”
Zoom Registration Link for “Fatphobia in Western Classical Music” Panel
Open the Gates Gaming, “Confronting the Stereotype of the Operatic ‘Mad Woman’ Through Tabletop Roleplaying Games: A Case Study for Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (1835)”
Pre-Recorded Presentation on Youtube
Open the Gates Gaming, "Lucia di Lammermoor: Playing a Live D&D Adventure Inspired by Donizetti's 1835 Opera"
Presenters: Christopher Campo-Bowen, Elizabeth McLain, Caitlin Martinkus, Sean Sidky, Gustavo Araoz, Dakota Vaughan, and Atlas Vernier
Additional Resources
· Lucia di Lammermoor Module Resources
“Redefining Conference Accessibility: A Reflection on the Neurodivergent Music Studies Conference’s Synchronous and Asynchronous Model”
Tara Allen, Nina Danon, Niamh Gallagher, Callie Milton, Jess Walls
Zoom Registration Link for “Redefining Conference Accessibility”
Shannon McAlister
Zoom Registration Link for “Intentional Breaks Through Music”
Neesa Sunar, “Aphantasia in Musicians: Reduced to Absent Mental Imagery, and Resultant Barriers in Pedagogy”
Kristy Swift and Joshua Chal, “Health and Wellbeing for Artists” as Access-Informed Service in Postsecondary Music Studies”
Chris Redding, “Music Beyond Words: Neurodiversity, Sound, and Inclusive Musical Experiences”
Tara Allen, “Music Science and the Neuronormativity Problem: Fostering Anti-Ableist Practices in Music Psychology, Cognition, and Therapy”
“Pursuing Nonlinear Careers, Valuing Our Stories in Musicology”
Chair: Sarah K. Miller
Tekla Babyak, Molly M. Breckling, Diane Kolin, and Heeseung Lee
Ili Chrysikou, “On site / sight Fieldwork: Blurring space and cripping ethnography”
Marc Perez, "Embodied History, Accessibility, and Daily Life’s Intersection with Improvisation & Public Space"
Caio Rocha, “A brief musical autoethnography of autistic leisure or how monotropism may not even include restricted interests”
Natasa Chanta-Martin, “Musicality, visuality, and the body: an embodied path towards sound making for individuals with sensory disabilities."
Zoom Registration Link for “Embodiment and Thick Descriptions of Location” Panel
Moira Williams, “Blood Songs + Oracles: Crip Careoke”
Oliver George-Brown, “Waste Not, Want Not: Participatory Play with Trash and Sound”
Noa Nishizawa, “See the Sound! Play the Music!: Reimagining Community Music Through Disability-Led Workshop Design”
Samantha Barr, “Accessing the Live Music Stage: A Case Study of Glasgow, UNESCO City of Music”
Jay Afrisando, “Critical Music Studies: An alternative model of music studies grounded in aural diversity”
James Deaville, “Lost in Transcription? Captioning Issues for Music and Sound in Film and Television”
Erin Brooks, “Dialing It In: US Radio, Disability, and the NBC Music Appreciation Hour” + Q&A
Jill Rogers, "Postwar Chanteuses and Radiophonic Constructions of Disability, Gender, and Nation"
Open the Gates Gaming, “Opera, Disability, Tabletop Roleplaying Games, and the Classroom”
Presenters: Christopher Campo-Bowen, Elizabeth McLain, and Scott Hanenberg
OtG will host a roundtable discussion during the conference focused on pedagogical implications, their method, and ways for interested attendees to incorporate this approach in their own classrooms.
Additional Resources
· Open the Gates Gaming Questions and Comments Form
· Lucia di Lammermoor Module Resources
Nina Danon and Niamh Gallagher, “Sounding divergent bodyminds: challenging normativity through an embodied, co-creative musical practice”
Neesa Sunar, “Supporting Musicians Through Mental Health Crises: Recommended Practices for Conservatoire Departments”
Zoom Registration Link for “Challenging Musical Norms” Panel
Stefan Sunandan Honisch, [Work-in-progress] “The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away”: Music, Vulnerability, and the Spirit of Meritocracy”
Zoom Registration Link for “The Lord giveth, and the Lord Taketh away”
11:00 AM PST / 2:00PM EST / 7:00 PM GMT
12:00 PM PST / 3:00 PM EST/ 8:00 PM GMT
Mehrenegar Rostami, Laurie McManus, and Rachel Golden, Jill Rogers
Zoom Registration Link for “Technologies and Terrors”
Elizabeth McLain