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Thursday, 23 June 2005, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (between 34th and 35th Streets)
12:00 pm	Registration, Elebash Recital Hall lobby
1:30-2:30 pm Elebash Hall	Session 1: Composing New Visions: Performance
1:30-2:30 pm Elebash Hall	Ursel Schlicht, Ex Tempore: The Development and Practice of an Artistic Vision in Response to World Conflict (performed by Jamie Baum, flutes, electronics; Kyoko Kitamura, vocalist; Thomson Kneeland, bass, electronics; Balla Kouyate, balafon; Ravish Momin, tabla, percussion; Ursel Schlicht, piano)
3:30-5:00 pm Elebash Hall	Session 2: Opening Plenary Session Moderated by Suzanne G. Cusick, New York University (Sponsored by the Middle East and Middle East American Center, and Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY Graduate Center)
3:30-5:00 pm Elebash Hall	Farzaneh Milani, University of Virginia, and Elizabeth Wood
8:00 pm Elebash Hall	Session 3: Concert: She Lost Her Voice & The Gender of Now
	Pauline Oliveros, The Gender of Now: There and Not There (performed by Sarah Cahill, piano, and Monique Buzzarté, trombone) -- New York premiere.
	Frances White, She Lost Her Voice That's How We Knew: A Chamber Opera for Solo Performer (performed by Kristin Norderval, soprano)
Friday, 24 June 2005, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (between 34th and 35th Streets)
9:00 am	Registration, Elebash Recital Hall lobby
10:00-12:00 pm Elebash Hall	Session 4: Crossings of Race and Gender Chair, Ellie M. Hisama, Brooklyn College & the Graduate Center, CUNY
	Annie Janeiro Randall, Bucknell University, “Dusty’s Hair”
	Miles Parks Grier, New York University, “Painting the Only Black Man at the Party: Joni Mitchell and the Age of Diversity”
	Nichole Rustin, University of Illinois, “ Can you be a black feminist and laugh at this book? Black Feminist and Black Jazz Musicians' Autobiographies”
	Jessica M. Courtier, University of Wisconsin, “Vocal Fantasies: Race, Masculinity, and Jazz in Rudy Vallee's Musical Doctor and Louis Armstrong's Rhapsody in Black and Blue”
10:00-12:00 pm Segal	Session 5: Feminist Epistemologies, Lesbian Imaginary and Music Education Chair, Roberta Lamb, Queen’s University
	Beth Denisch, Berklee College of Music, “Empowering Music Students through Non-Sexist Teaching Strategies”
	Karen Pegley, Queen’s University, “Listening to the Girls: Music, Gender and Technology in a Technology-in-Music Program”
	Carol Matthews, Boise State University, “The Witch Dance: Composition, the Negotiated Curriculum, and the Music Classroom”
	Elizabeth Gould, University of Wisconsin “Desire(ing) and Difference: Not Who I Am, but How I Am”
12:15-1:00 pm Elebash Hall	Session 6: Lunchtime Performance
12:15-1:00 pm Elebash Hall	Airi Yoshioka, violin: Music for Violin and Electronics (music by Linda Dusman, Milica Paranosic, Alice Shields, & Karen Tanaka)
1:30-2:30 pm Skylight	Session 7: Roundtable on Gender and Computer Music: Tracing Change Moderated by Mara Helmuth, University of Cincinnati
1:30-2:30 pm Skylight	Participants include Brad Garton, Columbia University; Elizabeth Hoffman, New York University; Margaret Schedel, University of Cincinnati; and Mary Simoni, University of Michigan
1:30-3:30 pm Elebash Hall	Session 8: Feminist American Histories Chair, Catherine Parsons Smith, University of Nevada-Reno
	Judith Tick, Northeastern University, “Affinities between American Music Studies and Women's Studies, ca. 1960-1985: A Revisionist Approach to the Historiography of Modern Feminist Scholarship in Music”
	Gillian Rodger, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, “The Downside of Upward Mobility: Women, Musical Theater and Moral Reform in Nineteenth-Century America"
	Adrienne Fried Block, CUNY Graduate Center, “Matinee Mania: Regendering the Concert Scene in the Nineteenth-Century New York”
	Lydia Hamessley, Hamilton College, “Banjos and Bicycles: The New Woman As Viewed Through the Stereograph “
1:30-3:30 pm Segal	Session 9: "Women Don’t Do It" Chair, Imani Perry, Rutgers University at Camden
	Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, CUNY Graduate Center, “Gender Dynamics in the Film Anne B. Real"
	Marnie Binfield, University of Texas–Austin, “‘Down-Ass Bitch’: Race, Class, Gender, and Lil’ Kim’s Gangsta Rap”
	Robin Burdulis, percussionist, Brooklyn, NY, “Dismantling the Entrenchment of Sexism and Religion: Women, Cuban Bata Drumming, and the Trailblazing Work of Amelia Pedroso”
	Tes Slominski, New York University, “From Lisheen to London: Julia Clifford’s Life Remembered”
4:00 pm Elebash Hall	Session 10: Keynote Address: "Midsummer's Night in Harlem, 1943: A Cultural Critic Listens” Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University
4:00 pm Elebash Hall	(introduced by Robin D. G. Kelley, Columbia University)
5:30 pm	Reception
7:00-9:00 pm Elebash Hall	Session 11a: Film Night
	Soul on Soul: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, preview of documentary on jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams, introduced by director & producer Carol Bash.
	Packin Up: Marion Williams and the Philadelphia Gospel Women, rough cut of film documentary on gospel singer Marion Williams, introduced by producer/editor Kathryn Golden, post-screening Q&A with producer/director Ashley James and producer/musicologist Ray Allen.
8:00 pm Columbia University; Philosophy Hall	Session 11b: Concert of Electroacoustic Music Columbia University (116th St. & Broadway), Philosophy Hall
8:00 pm Columbia University; Philosophy Hall	featuring pieces by Brad Garton, Mara Helmuth, Elizabeth Hoffman, Judy Klein, Margaret Schedel, Mary Simoni, Laurie Spiegel, John Young
Saturday, 25 June 2005, New York University, Silver Center, at 24 Waverly Place, corner of Washington Square East
8:30-9:30 am Silver 365	Breakfast meeting of Women and Music editorial board
8:30-9:30 am Silver 318	Breakfast meeting of GRIME
9:00 am	Registration, Room 268 Entrance, Second Floor
10:00-12:00 pm Silver 318	Session 12: Logics and Anti-Logics Chair, Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, Indiana University
	Linda Dusman, University of Maryland–Baltimore County, “To Persist Is To Ignore: Women Composers and the Denial of the Body”
	Pirkko Moisala, Abo Akademie University,”Meetings of Two in Kaija Saariaho’s Music”
	Lauren Wooley, University of California–San Diego, “Discontinuity in Motion: Walking the Virtual Body with Janet Cardiff”
	Nicole Anaka, University of Victoria, “The Eternal City of Women: Transparency, Time, and Community in Meredith Monk’s Education of the Girlchild”
10:00-12:00 pm Silver 320	Session 13: Stars Chair, Roxanne Reed, University of Illinois
	Shana Goldin-Perschbacher, University of Virginia, “The Mouth’s Cradle: Vocal Intimacy in Bjork‘s Medulla"
	Christina Baade, McMaster University, “Sincerely Yours–Vera Lynn: Performing Class, Sentiment, and Femininity in the ‘People’s War’”
	Gayle Wald, George Washington University, “Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Church of the Electric Guitar”
	Elaine Hayes, University of Pennsylvania, “‘This Girl Isn’t Just a Singer. She’s a Musician’: Sarah Vaughan, Instrumental Singing, and Mannerisms in Jazz"
10:00-11:30 pm Silver 206	Session 14: Affect Chair, Marion A. Guck, University of Michigan
	W. Robert Hodges,University of California–Santa Barbara, “Gender, Media, and Performative Shifts in Toba Batak (North Sumatra, Indonesia) Pop Laments: Referencing, Reframing, and Re-presenting Grief”
	Emily Wilbourne, New York University, “Reading, Listening: Music as Metaphor”
	James Kennaway, Berlin, Germany, “Women’s Electric Nerves and Musical Nervousness”
12:15-1:15 pm Silver, 8th Floor	Session 15a: Lunchtime Performance/Workshop: DJ Kuttin Kandi, Hip-hop activist
12:15-1:15 pm Silver, 8th Floor	Introduced by Ellie M. Hisama (Brooklyn College & the Graduate Center, CUNY)
12:15-1:00 pm Silver 320	Session 15b: Lunchtime Recital: Forbidden Clarke
12:15-1:00 pm Silver 320	Liane Curtis, lecturer; Emily Wilbourne, mezzo-soprano; Yvonne Troxler, piano; Susan Dominguez, violin; Gregor Kitzis, viola
1:30-3:30 pm Silver 206	Session 16: Queer(ing)s Chair, James Currie, University at Buffalo
	Christopher Brent Murray, New York University, “Ambrosia, Darienne, Pandora and Aggie: Their Drag Naming Stories”
	Samantha Pinto, UCLA, “‘Where’s that partner of mine?’ Ethel Waters and the Management of Black Queer Desire"
	Lisa Barg, McGill University, “Between the Sugar Plum Fairy and Sugar Rum Cherry: The Ellington-Strayhorn Nutcracker Suite"
	Amy Daken Valladares, New York University, “The Erotically Satisfying Experience of Performance”
1:30-3:30 pm Silver 318	Session 17: Politics Chair, Deborah Wong, University of California–Riverside
	Ejima Baker, CUNY Graduate Center, “Powerful Women: Images of Women in Trinidadian Music”
	Zoe Sherinian, University of Oklahoma, “Singing Christianity as Emancipatory Justice”
	Shana L. Redmond, Yale University, “Speaking Back: The Political Project of Nina Simone"
	Susan Thomas, University of Georgia, “‘La era esta pariendo...’: Re/producing Sexual Politics in Cuban Nueva Trova”
1:30-3:30 pm Silver 320	Session 18: Performance and Performativity Chair, José Muñoz, New York University
	Mary Simonson, University of Virginia, “‘The Call of Salome’: American Adaptations and Recreations of the Female Body"
	Yoko Suzuki, Rutgers University, “Invisible Woman: Vi Redd's Contributions as an Alto Saxophonist”
	J. Michele Edwards, Macalester College, emerita, “The Work of Mieko Shiomi at the Intersection of Fluxus, Feminism, and National Identity”
	Belinda Deneen Wallace, University of Maryland, “Staging the Body: Sexuality, Music and Feminism”
4:00-6:00 pm Silver 206	Session 19: American Women Making Musical Culture Chair, Ruth Solie, Smith College
	Connie Arrau Sturm, West Virginia University, “Female Piano Teachers and Performers in Early Twentieth-Century America: Challenges, Innovations, Legacies”
	Constance L. McKoy, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, “Women Teachers as Musical Creators: Three Daughters of Miriam“
	Elizabeth L. Keathley, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, “Making Modern Music History: Marion Bauer‘s Twentieth Century Music”
	Elizabeth Yackley, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, “Power and Gender in Modern Music Patronage: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge‘s Changing Patronage Style"
4:00-6:00 pm Silver 320	Session 20: Mediations Chair, Anahid Kassabian, Fordham University
	Carol Muller, University of Pennsylvania, “Virtually Connected to Billie Holiday”
	Judy Tsou, University of Washington, “Cultural and Gender Identities in Flower Drum Song”
	Pavitra Sundar, University of Michigan, “‘MeriAwaaz Suno’ (Listen to My Voice): Women, Vocalism, and Nation in Hindi Cinema”
	Roshanek Khesti, University of California–Santa Cruz, “Aural Intercourse: the (Hetero)Sexual Trope of Hybridity"
8:00 pm Silver 220	Session 21: Concert of electroacoustic music: (re)sounding spaces
8:00 pm Silver 220	Featuring works by Linda Buckley, Kali Z. Fasteau, Allison Johnson, Anne LeBaron, Sabrina Aguilar Peña, Daria Semegen, and Alice Shields
Sunday, 26 June 2005, New York University, Silver Center, at 24 Waverly Place, corner Washington Square East
8:00-10:00 am Silver 318 & 365	available for scheduled, announced meetings of interest groups
9:00 am	Registration, Room 268 Entrance, Second Floor
10:00-12:00 pm Silver 206	Session 22: Possibly Punk Chair, Martha Mockus, Stony Brook University
	Heather Feldman, CUNY Graduate Center, “‘Politics is music-- is life!’ Ani DiFranco on Post-9/11 Feminism”
	Christina Linklater, Harvard University, “Babelogues: The Feminine Writing of Patti Smith”
	Brooke Bryant, CUNY Graduate Center, “Gender Performance and Conflict in the 1970s Punk Movement”
	Angela Wilson, Montreal,Quebec, “‘For the ladies, and the fags, yeah’: Electronic Feminist Punk Subculture, Performativity, and Queer Politics"
10:00-12:00 pm Silver 320	Session 23: Voice Chair, Karen Henson, Columbia University
	Inna Naroditskaya, Northwestern University, “Catherine’s Operas: Royal Female Performativity in the Patriarchy of Eighteenth-Century Russia”
	Naomi Andre, University of Michigan, “British Queens on the Early Nineteenth-century Italian Opera Stage”
	Juliana Snapper, University of California–San Diego, “Heard but not Seen: Extended Vocalism and Queer Femininity”
	Megan Jenkins, CUNY Graduate Center, “Diva-Worship and Homoeroticism in Berio's Recital I (for Cathy)"
12:15-1:30 pm Silver 703	Session 24: Closing Plenary Moderator, Nancy Rao, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
12:15-1:30 pm Silver 703	Panelists will include Kyra Gaunt, New York University; Nadine Hubbs, University of Michigan; Niloofar Mina, New Jersey City University; and Ruth Solie, Smith College