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SMR discussion session with Dr. Nancy Rao
On March 30th, SMR members attended a discussion session with Dr. Nancy Rao of Rutgers University. This event provided students the opportunity to connect with an alumna of the Music Theory program and engage in conversations about the academic job...
Richard Smith presents at colloquium: 'New Perspectives of Cultural Contact and Exchange'
Recently, Ethnomusicology PhD Candidate Richard Smith presented at an interdisciplinary faculty and graduate colloquium at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign to discuss "New Perspectives of Cultural Contact and Exchange." Richard's paper "Listening for Rasa and 'Ishq: Cross-Cultural Ontologies of...
SMR goes ice skating
Two weeks ago, a few SMR members went ice skating to celebrate the end of winter. There were many falls, some bruises, but luckily no lasting damage to anything but our dreams of becoming Olympic figure skaters.
Ryan McCulloch presents at the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium
On March 9, Ryan McCulloch presented a paper at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium. The theme of the Consortium's meeting this year was "The Sonic Turn," and Ryan's talk was entitled, “The Things We Carried: A Case...
Dissertation Writing Group, Winter 2019
One of the staples of the SMR Forum, the Dissertation Writing Group has been going strong again this semester. Members meet weekly to exchange abstracts, proposals, conference papers, articles, and dissertation chapters, and they receive feedback from their eagle-eyed colleagues...