Conferences and Presentations
Highlighted Conference Presentations, Panels, Chairing Professional Societies/Meetings
2023 — Presentation, "Staging Death: Opera’s Mortal Imagination in Works from Prague to Theresienstadt." 57th International Musicology Colloquium Brno. Musicology Institute of Masaryk University. (Brno, October 9, 2023). Remote, virtual presentation
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2023 — Roundtable Discussant, “(Re)imagined Histories-Recovered Voices.” 57th International Musicology Colloquium Brno. Musicology Institute of Masaryk University. (Brno, October 9, 2023). Remote, virtual presentation
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2023 — Paper presentation, "'Sites of Memory'-Memory from Darkness: Him Sophy’s Piano Trio as Autobiography and History of Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge.” Composition in Asia: Symposium and Festival No. 4. University of South Florida College of The Arts, School of Music. (Tampa, January 28, 2023)
2023 — Pre-concert talk, "Him Sophy's Piano Trio Memory from Darkness." Composition in Asia Symposium and Festival No. 4. The University of South Florida College of The Arts, School of Music. (Tampa, January 29, 2023).
2022 — Chair, AMS: “Hearing Histories and Traditions: Music of African and African Diasporas in Performance and Dialogue.” Lecture-Recital Series of the American Musicological Society Performance Committee with scholar-performers Kamilla Arku Jimmy Kachulis: Annual conference of the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Society for Music Theory. (New Orleans, USA November 13, 2022): organized this panel; colleague facilitated.
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2022 — Paper presentation, “‘Sites of Memory’ and Mourning in the 2019 Phnom Penh Production of Him Sophy’s Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia.” International Musicological Society Regional Association for East Asia (IMSEA) Sixth Biennial Conference. (Daegu, Korea, October 21–23, 2022).
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2022 — Chair, "Musicking’ and Mobility." International Musicological Society Regional Association for East Asia (IMSEA) Sixth Biennial Conference. (Daegu, Korea, October 21–23, 2022).
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2022 — Fulbright Talk, “Partisan, Prisoner, and Pensioner: Albanian Composer Dhora Leka’s Journey Heard through Her 1999 cello work, Improvisus.” 45th Annual Fulbright Conference. (Bethesda, Maryland, October 7, 2022)
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2022 — Plenary Panelist, "Musicology in the Global Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Teaching Music: Conflict, Protest and Peace (MUS-UH 1097): 2021-2022." College Music Society Presidential Taskforce on Leading Change. College Music Society 65th Annual Conference. (Long Beach, California, September 23, 2022).
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2022 — Paper Presenter, "Re-orchestrating National and Global Narratives of Genocide: Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia at the 40th Commemoration of the Fall of the Khmer Rouge." 21st Quinquennial International Musicological Society Congress. (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, August 23, 2022).
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2021 — Paper Presenter, “’This world remains a mute world from which no music will ring out’: Hearing HIM Sophy’s Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia in Counterpoint with Walter Benjamin’s Conception of the Law.” International Conference: “Working with Benjamin on Law” Walter Benjamin Archive-Leibniz -Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung. (Berlin, Germany: July 16, 2021).
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2021 — Respondent, “’You let the Poor Become Guilty’”: Law and Justice in Benjamin’s Early Writings.” International Conference: “Working with Benjamin on Law.” Walter Benjamin Archive-Leibniz -Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung. (Berlin, Germany: July 17, 2021).
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2021 — Chair, “Love and Loyalty: Musical Confessions of Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1874-1936).” Scholar- Performers- Eva Mengelkoch and Ryan de Ryke. 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society. (AMS Chicago, November 21, 2021).
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Chair of AMS Performance Committee, American Musicological Society Performance Committee, “Performance Selections of the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society.”
- “The Music of Ignatius Sancho: The Arts as Black Resistance in Eighteenth-Century London” Scholar-performers: Rebecca Cypess and Sonya Headlam. Session Chair: David Schneider (Amherst). (AMS Chicago, November 11, 2021).
- “’This isn't anything new': Julius Eastman’s Piano 2 (1986)—Inspirations, Influences, and Interpretations.” Scholar-Performer: Richard Valitutto. Session Chair: Marilyn Nonken (NYU-Steinhardt). (AMS Chicago, November 12, 2021).
- “The Contrapuntal Lives of Chicago’s Race Women.” Scholar-Performer: Samantha Ege. Session Chair: Robert Kendrick (University of Chicago). (AMS Chicago, November 12, 2021).
2021 — Chair, “Voicing Cultural Trauma in the 1960s and 1970s.” International Conference: “Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.” (Indiana University, USA, February 12-14, 2021).
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2020 — Paper Presenter, “Synesthetic Metamorphoses: The Schulhoff- Pešánek Collaboration in the1932 Brno Staging of the Opera Flammen.” International Conference: “Illuminations: Perspectives on the Way of Light”: London Center for Interdisciplinary Research. (Birkbeck University of London, UK 14 March 2020).
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2020 — Panel Moderator, “The Making of a Masterpiece”: Art & Healing: Bangsokol Festival-Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Panel with HIM Sophy (composer) Rithy Panh (filmmaker) and Gideon Obarzanek (stage director) on Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia. (Cambodian Living Arts and Arts4peace Workshop, Cambodia: 12 December 2020).
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2019 — Paper Presenter, “Conflicted Identities: Agency, Autobiography and Memory in Viktor Ullmann’s 1944 Piano Sonata No. 7.” Inter-congressional Symposium of the International Musicological Society: “Agency and Identity in Music.” (Lucerne, Switzerland, 7-10 July, 2019).
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2019 — Chair, “Cultural Exchange and Politics in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.” Inter-congressional Symposium of the International Musicological Society (IMS): “Agency and Identity in Music” (Lucerne, Switzerland, 8 July, 2019).
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2019 — Paper Presenter, “At Ground Zero: Remembering 9/11 in the ‘Memory Spaces’ of John Adams’ On the Transmigration of Souls (2002).” International Conference: “The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place”: London Center for Interdisciplinary Research (Oxford, UK June 22-23, 2019).
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2019 — Chair, “Listening Across Borders.” NYU-Tisch-NYUAD Institute: “Translucent Borders Workshop” (NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, UAE, February 18-21, 2019).
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2019 — Discussant, “Pedagogy Across Borders.” NYU-Tisch-NYUAD Institute: “Translucent Borders Workshop” (NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, UAE, February 18-21, 2019).
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2018 — Seminar Paper Presenter, “Trauma, Telos, and Temporalities: Legacies of World War I in Erwin Schulhoff’s Opera Flammen and the Legend of Ahasueurus.” Seminar Series: “Opera and Time.” Annual Conference: American Musicological Society-Society for Music Theory (San Antonio, Texas: November 1-4, 2018).
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