Dear colleagues and friends, 

We would like to invite you to attend the Society for Ethnomusicology Pre-Conference Symposium Decolonizing Strategies in Ethnomusicology, Teaching, and Performance: Perspectives from the US Southwest and Latin America on Wednesday November 14, 2018 in Albuquerque.

The symposium’s topic will allow us to address not only decoloniality and decolonization as concepts but, most importantly, as praxis. We understand decolonization as an ongoing project and acknowledge the complexities and tensions of the term, as well as the different epistemologies produced when it is used in different languages. By bringing together a group of scholars, pedagogues, activists, and creative artists from across Latin America and the US Southwest, we will engage in a hemispheric conversation that takes into account the multiple perspectives of epistemological and performative decolonialities.

During the day there will be a series of roundtables taking place at the Hotel Albuquerque (SEM conference venue), followed by Música del Corazón: Una velada nuevomexicana, a music event including a varied medley of old and new musical genres, held at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. 

The full schedule for the symposium is posted here:

http://www.indiana.edu/~semhome/2018/pdf/SEM%202018%20Pre-Conference%20Symposium%20Program%20091718.pdf

All activities during the symposium are free and open to the public although registration is required through the SEM website.

We hope to see you in Burque! 

Saludos cordiales,

Ana R. Alonso Minutti, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Music

Faculty Affiliate, Latin American and Iberian Institute

Office: Center for the Arts 2106

Website: http://music.unm.edu/faculty/ana-alonso-minutti/

The University of New Mexico

College of Fine Arts

Department of Music
MSC04 2570

1 University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
(505) 277-2126