2024 Symposium | LGBTQ+ Music Study G

Caring Amidst Neoliberalism

History, Solidarity, Desire

October 16th

9am Welcome, Speed Networking/Meditation

9:30-11:00 Panel 1: “Enlightenment of the Theys,”

Poe M Allphin, chair

Paper: Oliver George-Brown (University of California, Irvine), Radical Negativity: Conceiving a Queer Ecology of Sound
Paper: Hallie Voulgaris (Yale University), Listening-With/As a Sea Anemone: Rippling Time and Trans Intimacy in felicita’s “Sex With Anemone”

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break/Social

11:30-1:00pm Zine-Making Workshop, led by Poe Allphin

October 17th

9:15am Welcome, Settling in Time

9:30-11:00 Panel 2: “Music Is Sex”

Daniele Sofer, chair

Paper: Tekla Babyak (Disabled Independent Scholar, Davis, CA), On a Sexual Relationship with Nineteenth-Century Composers
Paper: Mathew Klotz (Griffith University, Australia), Revisiting Suzanne Cusick’s Lesbian Relationship with Music

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break/Social

11:30-1:00pm Roundtable: "Transitioning In-Between"

Michael Bussewitz (NY)

Sam Dunscombe (Germany)

Sarah Hennies (Bard College)

Kaleb E Goldschmitt (Wellesley College)

Jaime Díaz (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, University of Glasgow), moderator

October 19th

10:00am-11:00am Annual General Meeting: "Touching Base with the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group Committee and our Tools"

11:00am-11:30am Works In Progress Workshop

Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta, respondent

Magdalena Fürnkranz (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria), “Trans Austrian Hip Hop”
Sinbaldo De Rosa (University of Milan, Italy), “Sampling the Mevlevi Sema”

11:30am-1:00pm Lunch Break/Social

1:00pm-1:05 Presentation on drug addiction and music by Sagardía (Berlin)

1:05-2:00 Performance & Talk Back: Trey Makler (UC Davis), Waiting Rooms

2:00-4:00 Peer Mentorship Workshop: Marie Bennett (UK), Thomas Hilder (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

October 20th

10:00am-12:00pm Panel 3: "Queer Community Building"

Thomas Hilder, chair

Paper: AJ Banta (University of Michigan), “Gossip in Musical Theatre History and Scholarship”
Paper: Poe M Allphin (CUNY Graduate Center), “Homonationalism, Patriotism, and Race in Gay Men’s Choruses”
Paper: Anna Kaznacheeva (Charles University), “Nostalgia for the Freedom That Never Was”

12:00pm-1:00 Lunch Break/Social

1:00-3:00 Panel 4: “Protest, Neoliberal, Music: Palestinian Perspectives"

Catrina Kim (UMass-Amherst), moderator

Alan Reese (UMass-Amherst)

Jessie Lee Rubin (Columbia University)

Serena Rasoul (Columbia University)

Issa Zaatry (University of Haifa)

3:00-3:30 Participatory Sound-Making Performance:

alexa dexa (NYC), crafting + casting a songspell for our resonant bodies + queer crip ecologies

Symposium Programme (all times in EST)

Symposium Call for Papers

Caring Amidst Neoliberalism: History, Solidarity, Desire

5th Symposium of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group

16, 17, 19 and 20 October 2024

Virtual event

The LGBTQ+ Music Study Group is delighted to announce our 5th symposium, “Caring Amidst Neoliberalism: History, Solidarity, Desire.” In resistance to ongoing insidious ahistorical extortionist neoliberal greed, our symposium echoes the call of our previous events to center care and community in the slow, often tumultuous path toward justice. We all recognize the long slog of social justice, especially in this–year 4–of an ongoing global pandemic. Liberal and conservative movements alike have been quick to identify problems that require sudden action, fueling our neoliberally cultivated short attention spans while feeding the hungry beast that is capitalism’s rat race. Echoing the creed of our “Queer, Care, Futures'' Symposium in Southampton, UK and the virtual Queer Forum in 2021, this year’s virtual symposium will offer slow, thoughtful intellectual excursions into queer belonging to cultivate brighter hope toward realizing our aspirations and queer desires.

This free online event aims to cultivate a community of care via a coordinated zine-making workshop, an early career researchers’ writing workshop, a mutual mentoring scheme (continued from previous years), and an invited panel to discuss “Transitioning within Musical Professions,” with Michael Bussewitz, Sam Dunscombe, Sarah Hennies, Kaleb E Goldschmitt, Jaime Díaz, and moderated by Daniele Sofer.

Register for free here.