Feminist Theory and Music Conference 2024
- Karen Fournier (Associate Professor of Music Theory, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance)
- Christi-Anne Castro (Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Associate Dean, University of Michigan)
- Suzanne Cusick (Professor of Music History, New York University)
- Kim Francis (Professor of Musicology, University of Guelph)
- Jillian Hopper (Clinical Assistant Professor of Dance, University of Michigan)
- Vivian Luong (Assistant Professor of Music Theory, University of Oklahoma)
- Carlos Rodriguez (Associate Professor of Music Education, University of Michigan)
- Jillian Rogers (Associate Professor of Music History, University of Indiana)
- Courtney Snyder Ng (Associate Professor of Conducting, University of Michigan)
- Judith Tsou (emeritus, University of Washington libraries)
The Feminist Theory and Music Conference, planned for June 2024 in Ann Arbor will provide a venue for explorations of intersections in music scholarship between gender/sexuality and such identity categories as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, disability, age/ageism, and others. While the biennial conference has convened regularly since 1991, the Michigan Feminist Theory and Music Conference in 2024 will seek to broaden the disciplinary reach of the conference by including performers and performances that focus on gender and sexuality. A cohort of faculty from the SMTD will serve as an advisory body to the conference and to provide expertise from different disciplinary perspectives. This advisory group will work together to select the keynote speaker and the performers who will be invited to the conference. A cohort of faculty from the SMTD has agreed to serve as an advisory body to the conference and to provide expertise from their different disciplinary perspectives (this group includes a musicologist, a music theorist, a music educator, a performer/conductor, and a dancer/choreographer). This advisory group will work together to select the keynote speaker and the performers who will be invited to the conference and will also meet with Vivian Luong, the 2024 program chair, to select members for the program committee (from within UM and from other institutions). Fournier and colleagues will also forge partnerships across campus with faculty from Women’s and Gender Studies, the Center for World Performance Studies, and English Language and Literature, and others.
