Schedule of Events
10am-11:30am - Mini-Presentations and Q&A with Kathryn Huether, Jenny Olivia Johnson, Bethan Johnson, and Shayna Silverstein. Moderated by Nina Eidsheim.
11:30am-11:45am - Coffee Break in Green Room
11:45am-12:45pm - Keynote by Shayna Silverstein -- "Sectarian Reckonings: The Politics of Voice and Song in Post-Authoritarian Syria"
12:45pm-2pm - Break
2pm-3:30pm - Seminar in Green Room (RSVP required)

Nina Eidsheim (she/her) is the author of Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice and The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music; co-editing Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies; Co-editor of the Refiguring American Music book series for Duke University Press. She received her bachelor of music from the voice program at the Agder Conservatory (Norway); MFA in vocal performance from the California Institute of the Arts; and Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, San Diego. Eidsheim is Professor of Musicology at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and founder and director of the UCLA Practice-based Experimental Epistemology (PEER) Lab, an experimental research Lab dedicated to decolonializing data, methodology, and analysis, in and through multisensory creative practices. Current projects include a book collaboration with Wadada Leo Smith and a multi-model project that will map networks of metaphors that structure musical community, discourse, and practice.