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This October, three of our SMR members, Casper Chan, Mitty Ma, and Chuyi Zhu, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Casper Chan presented a paper entitled “Musical Puzzle-Solving as Social Critique: Crowdsourced Contrafactum in Hong Kong’s...

On Friday, November 12th, members of SMR gathered via Zoom to discuss Matthew Johnson’s Undermining Racial Justice (Cornell University Press, 2020) at the first Anti-Racism Reading Group of the 2021–2022 school year. Having discussed the text itself in some detail...

The Dissertation Writing Group has been going strong this semester, convening remotely via Zoom every week to exchange chapter drafts, abstracts, job documents, advice, and moral support. DWG participants enjoy the structure, motivation, and support that the group provides!

On September 16, 2021, SMR gathered on Zoom for the annual Fall General Assembly. We discussed the opportunities and challenges that the circumstances of this strange year present for SMR and planned for upcoming events. We also discussed improvements that...

This weekend, SMR members gathered to socialize and kick off an academic school year like no other at County Farm Park for our annual SMR Welcome BBQ—our first in-person event since February 2020! Socially distanced introductions were made, burritos and...