Schedule of the Meeting (times are listed in EDT time)

Abstracts for the presentations and speaker bios are found on this page.

11:00am: Registration & Welcoming Remarks

11:30am-12:30pm: Paper Session #1

  • James Heazlewood-Dale (Brandeis University), “Soundtracking Danger: Adapting the Jazz Noir Fallacy in Game Noir
  • Richard Mueller (Willington, CT), “Cootje van Oven’s Legacy as a Student and Collector of the Indigenous Music of Sierra Leone”

12:30pm-1:00pm: Lunch Break

2:00pm-2:30pm: Chapter Business Meeting

2:30pm-3:30pm: Paper Session #2

  • Jeannette D. Jones (Maynard, MA), “Musical Networks, Genealogy, and the Tree of Jesse in Fifteenth-Century France”
  • Alex Ludwig (Berklee College of Music), “Freder’s Fever Dream: How the Dies Irae Disrupts and Determines Narrative Logic in the Film Metropolis