Welcome:
Michael Roth (President, Wesleyan University)
Su Zheng (Professor, Wesleyan University
Mark Slobin’s Valedictory Graduate Seminar
Panel:
Hankus Netsky (New England Conservatory of Music): “The Slobinization of Jewish Studies: a Pipedream”
Jeffrey Summit (Tufts University): “Reflections on Mentorship in Ethnomusicology”
Amanda Scherbenske (The New School): “Improvising at the Interculture: Voicing Agency, Fashioning Networks, and Navigating Constraints”
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (New York University): “Cantors, Klezmer, and Singers: A Musical Friendship”
Panel:
Marc Perlman (Brown University) “Musicologizing Improvisation: Or, How ‘Improvisation’ Became an Abstract Noun”
Zoe Sherinian (University of Oklahoma): “’You Have to Start with the Music’: The Slobin Legacy of Keeping Music in EthnoMUSICology”
Michael Veal (Yale University): “Playing the Changes”
Laxmi Tewari (Sonoma State University): “Wesleyan and the World Music Program”
Panel:
Jorge Arévalo Mateus (Association for Cultural Equity; Center for Traditional Music and Dance): “Mark’s Metaphors: Visual Poetics, Pedagogy, and Theoretical Clarity”
Andrew Raffo Dewar (The University of Alabama): “ONCE Upon a Time: Mark Slobin’s Experimental Ethnomusicology”
Tim Eriksen: “Old Folks Singing In Utopia: How Antebellum Musical Antiquarianism and Calvinist Eschatology Gave Birth to Science Fiction on the Banks of the Connecticut”
Junko Oba (Hampshire College): “Remixing Saudade: Musica Sertaneja in NikkeyBrazilian Diaspora”
Ljerka Vidić Rasmussen (Tennessee State University): “From Baščaršija to Belle Meade: On Mentorship”
Panel:
Judith Becker (University of Michigan): “The Nat Pwe, Burmese Spirit Veneration Rituals”
Ted Levin (Dartmouth College): “Conversations in Tashkent Redux”
William Malm (University of Michigan): “How Mark Slobin Became an Ethnomusicologist”
Bonnie Wade and Kay Shelemay, Video Greetings
Dan Slobin (University of California, Berkeley): “Growing Up With Mark”
Concert:
Irish set: Stan Scott, Dora Hast, Matthew Allen
Yiddish set: Hankus Netsky, Amanda Miryem-Khaye Seigel, Matthew Stein (Wesleyan klezmer ensemble)
Zoe Sherinian and Aaron Paige joined by Suresh Thammuraj, Karthikeyan Deiveegarajan, and Arun Kalimuthu of the Connecticut-based group Maanudam Parai
Okon Hwang and the Eastern Connecticut State University Korean Samul ensemble, “Yeongnam Nong-ak (Farmers’ Music from the Southeastern Region)” arranged by Kim Deok-su, rearranged by Okon Hwang
Matthew Allen, Julie Searles, Paul Austerlitz, and David Nelson
David Fossum, Aaron Paige
Andrew Colwell
Tim Eriksen
Javanese Wayang Puppet Play: Arjuna in Meditation
Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble under the direction of I. M. Harjito and Sumarsam (dhalang) with guest musicians.