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Symposium: Jerome Greene Annex, Columbia University Law School 
Concert: Italian Academy, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue between 117th and 118th Streets

Friday, December 11

8:30 - 9:00  |  Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30  |  Welcome
Ellie Hisama (Columbia University, Department of Music & IRWGS)
Susan Boynton (Columbia University, Department of Music)
Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University, IRWGS)
Maureen Mahon (New York University, Faculty of Arts and Science)
9:30 - 11:30  |  Panel: Feminist Thinking Across Disciplines
Chair: Marcia Citron (Rice University)
Ellen Rosand (Yale University), "You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Francesca Caccini in the 21st Century"
Ellen Koskoff (Eastman School of Music), "Difference and Sameness: Playing with Ambiguity”
Annamaria Cecconi (Conservatorio Statale di Musica “A. Pedrollo,” Vicenza, Italy) and Roberta Gandolfi (Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy), "Feminism, History and Performance: A  Postcard from Italy"
Marion A. Guck (University of Michigan), “A Reality Co-Created”: 
First Relationship—>Musical Relationships
​11:30 - 1:00  |  Lunch
1:00 - 1:30  |  Performance Offering
Amy Brosius (University of Birmingham, UK), Songs by Francesca Caccini
Jenny Johnson (Wellesley College),"Our Vibrating World”  
With Amy Cimini (University of California, San Diego), viola
1:30 - 2:45  |  Roundtable: Disciplinary Interventions
Chair: Ellie M. Hisama (Columbia University)
Lydia Hamessley (Hamilton College), “Feminist Theory and Music with Suzanne: First Connections”
Elizabeth Hudson (Northeastern University), “‘Always Gonna Dance’: negotiating power and the fun principle”
Elizabeth Wood, “On Touch”

Tomie Hahn (Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute), "Perplexing Beauty"
2:45 - 3:00  |  Break
3:00 - 5:00  |  Panel: Theorizing Music, Gender, Sexuality & Race
Chair: Tavia Nyong’o (New York University, Tisch School of the Arts)
Nadine Hubbs (University of Michigan), “Marginal Listening; or, How (Not) to Hear Homophobia in Country Music
Melanie L. Marshall (University of College Cork, Ireland),  "'As English As Cornflakes:' Singers, Gender and National Belonging in 20th-century Britain."
Fred E. Maus (University of Virginia), “What if music IS sex?”
Gayle Murchison (The College of William & Mary), "By Extension, 
Suzanne Cusick and the Queerness of Blackness: Opening Space for a New Conversation"
​5:00 - 6:30  |  Reception, Jerome Greene Annex
Words from Deborah Wong (University of California, Riverside)  [participation by video]
​7:00 - 8:30  |  International Contemporary Ensemble Performance at the Italian Academy,Teatro
Compositions by David Adamcyk & Zosha Di Castri, Natacha Diels, and Maria Stankova
8:45 - 9:30  |  Composer Talkback
Moderators: Linda Dusman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) & Elizabeth Hoffman (New York University, Faculty of Arts and Science)
David Adamcyk, Zosha Di Castri, Natacha Diels

Saturday, December 12

8:30 - 9:15  |  Breakfast
9:15 - 9:30  | 
Kyra Gaunt (Baruch College, CUNY), Invocation in song
“‘Dear Ms. Afro’: A Dissonant Ode from Old Virginny (Carry Me Back)”
9:30 - 11:30  |  Panel: Music, Bodies, Violence
Chair: Emily Wilbourne (Queens College, CUNY)
Kyra Gaunt (Baruch College, CUNY), “Zulu Beads, Twerking & Feminist Fighting Nuns: Liberating Music Departments from Terror with Suzanne"
Pirkko Moisala (University of Helsinki), "Musicking Materialities: A Deleuzian Approach to What a Body Can Do"
Jessica A. Schwartz (University of California, Los Angeles), "Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: The Unmaking of ‘Little Girls’ Voices  (Through Dolls, Guitars, and Nuclear Bombs)"
Maria Edurne Zuazu (Graduate Center, CUNY), “Modes of Address” 
11:45 - 1:15  |  Lunch Reception & Viewing of Symposium Exhibit 
Reception at the Center for Ethnomusicology (Dodge 701C)
Exhibit at the Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library (Dodge Hall, 7th floor), curated by Jane Forner and Velia Ivanova
1:30 - 3:00  |  Roundtable: Feminist Paradigms and Pedagogies
Chair: Maureen Mahon (New York University, Faculty of Arts and Science)
Daniel Callahan (Boston College), "Private/Public Dancer"
Nicol Hammond (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Chosen Families"
Clara Latham (Dartmouth College), “Classroom erotics: Pedagogy, intimacy, power"
Tes Slominski (Beloit College), “Queer Eye for the Straight -Ologist: Suzanne's Interdisciplinarit
y"
3:00 - 3:30  |  Where is the Jazz in Jazzercize?
Sherrie Tucker (University of Kansas) and panelists TBA
3:30 - 3:45  |  Break
3:45 - 5:45  |  Panel: Reaching Beyond the Classroom
Chair: Judy S. Tsou (University of Washington, Seattle)
Kimberly Francis (University of Guelph), “The Personal is Musicological"
Bonnie S. Gordon (University of Virginia), “The year that the history of music became the history of Rape”
Elizabeth K. Keenan (Indepedent Scholar, New York City), “On Fearlessness: How Suzanne's Work Led Me Outside the Academy”
Monica Hairston O’Connell (Independent scholar; Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin), “
The Center for Black Music Research and Archival Authority, or How Suzanne Cusick Made Me Undisciplined”
5:45 - 6:00  |  Closing Remarks
Suzanne G. Cusick, Ellie M. Hisama, Emily Wilbourne
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