Upcoming Events
2022
October 1: “Alaska Book Week features Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska (OUP 2021)”
“Alaska Book Week” event hosted by Alaska Native Media Group in conversation with Dr. Maria Shaa Tlaa Williams, Virtual (YouTube Video).
November 11: “More-Than-Metaphors: Toward the Generative Possibilities of Indigenous Sound Logics”
invited paper for the Naming, Understanding, and Playing with Metaphors in Music session with Nina Sun Eidsheim, Daniel Walden, Braxton D. Shelley, J. Martin Daughtry, Philip Ewell, and Holly Watkins at the joint Annual Meeting for the American Musicological Society, Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Society for Music Theory in New Orleans, LA.
November 11: “Sensing the Ethics and Aesthetics of Arctic Indigenous Sound Logics”
invited paper for the Global Philosophies of Music session with Chris Stover, Gavin Lee, Brian Barone and Jordan Lenchitz hosted by the American Musicological Soceity Music and Philosphy Working Group at the joint Annual Meeting for the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Society for Music Theory in New Orleans, LA.
Past Events
2022
February 23: “Sound Relations Book Talk”
Invited book talk, Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska (OUP 2021), hosted by the Davis Humanities Institute at the University of California, Davis.
March 4&5: “Invitational Frameworks for a More Relational Music and Sound Studies”
Invited Keynote Address for “Sympathetic Vibrations: Sound, Communities, Environments” hosted by the Yale Graduate Music Symposium, New Haven, CT.
March 26: “Rethinking ‘Visiting’: the Significance of Intertribal and Invitational Songs”
Invited Keynote Address with John-Carlos Perea for the “Tourism and Musical Imaginaries” Conference hosted by the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université de Genève, and the University of California, Berkeley.
April 6: “The Singing Woods: An Interview with Brent Michael Davids”
Invited conversant with Mohican/Munsee composer Brent Michael Davids for the “Lenapehoking” Exhibit hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library.
April 7: “Sensing the Ethics and Aesthetics of Arctic Indigenous Sound Logics”
Invited talk for the “Sound and Sense” Symposium hosted by the Philosophy Department, the Kitt School of Music, and Honors College at Northern Arizona University.
April 14: “Sound Powers: The Sonic Practices of Politics and Place-Making”
Invited book talk panel featuring Sound Relations (OUP 2021) in conversation with Marina Peterson’s Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles (DUP 2021), hosted by the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
April 15: Keynote for “Indigenous Relations and Unexpectedness: Intergenerational Sound Knowledge”
Invited keynote for the second annual Indigenous Sound Studies symposium sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender and the American Indian Graduate Program at the University of California, Berkeley.
April 22: “Sounding Homelands, Composing Continuance: Listening to ‘Lenapehoking’ in Manhatta”
Invited listening session co-led with Mohican/Munsee composer Brent Michael Davids and the Lenape Center featuring the new work “Lenapehoking: An Anthem for Lenape Center” (2021); for the “When I think of Home: Race and Borders in Popular Music” Pop Convergence Conference hosted by the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
April 29: “Sound Relations Book Talk”
Invited book talk, Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska (OUP 2021), hosted by the Hemispheric Institute of the Americas at the University of California, Davis.
April 30: “More-Than-Metaphors: Toward the Generative Possibilities of Indigenous Languages”
Invited Keynote for “Naming, Understanding, and Playing with Metaphors,” a Virtual Symposium hosted by the UCLA PEER Lab and Durham University Music Department.
May 26: “Soundtrack to Creativity”
Invited book talk panel featuring Sound Relations (OUP 2021) in conversation with Marina Peterson’s Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles (DUP 2021) and Jessica Schwartz’s Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences (DUP 2021) hosted by the Practice-Based Experimental Epistemology Research Lab at UCLA.
June 6: “NAISA North Virtual 2022: Sustaining Indigenous Liveliness”
Invited book talk hosted by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and the Dechinta Centre for a regional meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Virtual.
2021
February 11: “Jessica Bissett Perea in dialogue with Stephanie Maroney”
Paper for the Radical Fermentation Dialogue Series roundtable convened with Maria Marco, Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann, and Stephanie Maroney hosted by the Davis Humanities Institute.
February 19: “Sounding Otherwise: Why Listening to Indigelogics Matters Now”
Invited panelist for the To Begin Again: Music, Apocalypse, and Social Change roundtable with Christa Bentley, Lei Liang, Jessica Schwartz, and Michael Veal hosted by the Graduate Music Forum at Harvard University.
March 5: “Asking (More) Indigeneity Questions of Music Studies in the Americas”
Invited paper for the “Music Scholars Lecture Series” hosted by the School of Music at the University of Maryland.
March 11: “Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann in dialogue with Jessica Bissett Perea”
Discussant for the Radical Fermentation Dialogue Series roundtable convened with Maria Marco, Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann, and Stephanie Maroney hosted by the Davis Humanities Institute.
March 12: “Improvising Indigeneity”
Invited paper for the Thinking Spaces Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series hosted by the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation at the University of Guelph, Ontario.
April 16: “Indigelogical and Eurological Perspectives on American Music Histories since 1970”
Invited paper for the Music and Identity Colloquium Series hosted by Utah State University.
April 21: “A Taste of Ohlone Culture”
Co-convener and co-moderator with Maria Marco, featuring Vincent Medina (Chochenyo), Louis Trevino (Rumsen Ohlone), and food tasting by mak-‘amham [our food] for the Sips and Bites Series hosted by the Robert Mondavi Institute for Food and Wine Science, UC Davis.
April 24: “Asking (More) Indigeneity Questions of Popular Music Studies”
Invited paper and Pop Musicking and Survivance in the Native North Pacific panel with SimHayKin Jack, Jack Flesher, and John-Carlos Perea at the Pop Convergence Conference at NYU.
June 14: “Sensing the Densities of Indigeneity: Native North Pacific Perspectives”
Paper and Currents and Confluences in Native North Pacific Studies roundtable with Eve Tuck, Jen Rose Smith, E.J.R. David, Robin Gray, Thomas Swensen, Kathleen Whitely, and X’unei Lance Twitchell accepted for the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, Virtual.
July 21: “Indigenous Soundings: Environmental and Cultural Landscapes”
Dialogue with Chad Hamill, John-Carlos Perea, and Trevor Reed for the Sound, Meaning, Education Conference at Northern Arizona University.
September 11: “Artist Equity Summit: What We Learn from Indigenous Cultures”
Dialogue with Brent Michael Davids (Mohican/Munsee), Sharon M. Day (Ojibwe), Sir Curtis Kirby III (Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe and African American descent), and Nina Sun Eidsheim for the American Composers Forum.
September 28: “Celebrating Recent Work by Kevin Fellezs: Listen but Don’t Ask Question: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar across the TransPacific”
Discussant with Aaron Fox, Paige West, and Chris Washburne for the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.
October 20: “Indigenous Arts and Values: Native North Pacific Perspectives”
Presentation for the Networking Asia Pacific Indigenous Studies seminar, co-curated with Welyne Jeffrey Jehom and co-hosted by UC Davis and Universiti Malaya.
November 3: “Pamyua Pre-Performance Talk with Pamyua”
Dialogue with Pamyua artists Philip Blanchett and Ossie Kairaiuak hosted by the Robert & Magrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at the University of California, Davis.
November 11: “Finding Mary: Diasporic Hawaiian Performance in the Archive” Keynote Lecture by Stephanie Nohelani Teves
Discussant with Kevin Fellezs hosted by the Committee on Race, Indigeneity, and Ethnicity at the American Musicological Society Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.
November 18: “A Once and Future Peace: Q&A with Filmmaker Eric Metzgar”
Dialogue with Filmmaker Eric Metzgar for the Human Rights Film Festival for the Davis Humanities Institute and Humann Rights Studies Program.
November 21: “Toward a More Native Music Studies and a More Musical Native Studies: Indigelogical and Eurological Perspectives on American Music Histories since 1970”
Invited panelist for the Centering Discomfort in Global Music History roundtable with Alexandria Carrico, Daniel Castro Pantoja, Hedy Law, Maria Ryan, and Parkorn Wangpaibookit hosted by the Global Music History Study Group at the American Musicological Society Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.
2020
March 12: “Listening for the Density of Urban and Intertribal Indigeneities”
Invited paper for the Department of Music Colloquium Series at New York University.
**cancelled due to COVID-19**
May 9: “Listening for the Density of Urban and Intertribal Indigeneities”
Paper accepted for the Ownership, Access and Control of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Case Studies and Future Directions panel at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada.
**cancelled due to COVID-19**
November 4: “Repatriation and the Future of Indigenous Creativity”
Invited panelist for the NAGPRA: 30 Years and Beyond Conference hosted by the Indian Legal Program at the Arizona State University School of Law.
**postponed due to COVID-19**
2019
April 6: “Perspectives on Intertribal American Indian and Alaska Native Music and Dance in the Classroom”
Invited panelist with John-Carlos Perea and Eddie Madril for the California Teachers Association Ethnic Studies Caucuses Racial and Social Justice: Empowering Change Agents and Mobilizing Communities Conference, San Jose, CA.
September 25: “The 50th Anniversary of Ethnic Studies from the Perspective of Alaska Native Studies”
Invited panelist with Elizabeth Parent and Shari Huhndorf for the Red Tawks Series hosted by the American Indian Studies Department at San Francisco State University .
2018
July 4: “Improvising Archives: Tanya Tagaq Gills and Contemporary Inukologics”
Invited paper for the Indigenous Improvisations: Freedom and Responsibility Colloquium at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada.
November 16: Beyond Land Acknowledgements, Recentering Indigenous and Local Histories”
Paper and Indigenizing Ethnomusicology: Histories, Theories, and Methods panel with Trevor Reed, Amber Ridington, John-Carlos Perea, Heidi Senungetuk, Renata Yazzie, Keola Donaghy, and Stephen Fox accepted for the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.
2017
October 25: “Audiovisualizing Anchoragemiut Akutaq: Mixture and ‘Rematriation’”
Invited paper and Keywords in Indigenous Sound Studies roundtable with Trevor Reed, Beverley Diamond, Keola Donaghy, Kevin Fellezs, Robin Gray, John-Carlos Perea, and Dylan Robinson for the “Sound Alliances: A Celebration of Indigenous Music and Culture” Pre-Conference at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.
2015
March 7: “Listening Critically to Tanya Tagaq Gillis’ Reclamation of Nanook of the North”
Paper accepted for the Society for American Music Annual Meeting, Sacramento, CA.
March 13 & 14: “An Introduction to ‘Tanya Tagaq Gillis in Concert with Nanook of the North’”
Invited pre-concert lecture for “Tagaq in Concert with Nanook of the North” for Arctic Indigeneities, Media, and Social Justice, a three-day multi-event symposium co-curated with Professor Christyann Darwent (Anthropology), in partnership with the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts to host a visiting artist residency for Inuit vocalist Tanya Tagaq, University of California, Davis,
December 4: “Indigenous Theory in the Americas”
Invited panelist for the President’s Roundtable with Dylan Robinson, Dawn Ieriho:kwats Avery, David Samuels, and Holly Wissler at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting in Austin, TX.
December 4: “Revitalizing Native American Music and Dance Curricula through Research into Teaching, Student Learning, and Assessment”
Paper and Indigenizing Academic Soundscapes panel with John-Carlos Perea and Keola Donaghy accepted for the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. December 4.
2014
May 1: “The ‘Sound of Eskimo,’ Sounding Inuit: Unsettling Colonial Logics of Gender and Race in 20th Century Film Music”
Invited paper as the Catherine Parsons Smith Distinguished Lecturer for the Department of Music at the University of Nevada, Reno.
May 22: “The ‘Sound of Eskimo,’ Sounding Inuit: Unsettling Colonial Logics of Gender and Race in 20th Century Film Music”
Invited paper for the Department of Music Ethno/Musicology Forum at the University of California, Davis.
September 12: “Field Guide: An Introduction to Tanya Tagaq Gillis in Concert with Nanook of the North”
Invited pre-concert lecture for the Time-Based Art Festival at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Portland, OR.
November 13: “Film Screening: Hearing Radmilla”
Moderator for artists residency film screening by Radmilla Cody for the Responding to IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas, a three-day multi-event symposium co-curated with Professor Bettina Ng’weno (African American and African Studies), held at the University of California, Davis.
November 14: “Afro-Inuit Musical Modernities, Sound Quantum, and the Predicament of Audible Indigeneity”
Paper for academic conference for the Responding to IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas, a three-day multi-event symposium co-curated with Professor Bettina Ng’weno (African American and African Studies), held at the University of California, Davis.
November 20: “An Introduction to ‘Tanya Tagaq in Concert with Nanook of the North’”
Invited lecture for Native American Heritage Month Series for the USDA Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, CA.