Events
2019
Music and Sound at the Mediterranean Crossroads Symposium
‘The Ties that Bind’: Trans-Mediterranean Coloniality in the Musical Institutions of Post-Independence Morocco
January 7-10
IFAO- Cairo, Egypt
2018
Middle-Eastern Studies Association Annual Meeting
“Out of Africa?” Toward Determining a Geo-Cultural Context for the Study of Moroccan Musics
November 15-18
San Antonio, TX
African Music Scholarship in the 21st Century: Challenges & Directions Symposium
The Crucible of Colonialism: The Connection Between Cultural Hegemony and Francophone Musical Scholarship in Morocco
August 9-12
University of Ghana - Accra, Ghana
Music and Sound at the Mediterranean Crossroads Symposium
‘The Ties that Bind’: Trans-Mediterranean Coloniality in the Musical Institutions of Post-Independence Morocco
June 18-23
Dar Souiri - Essaouira, Morocco
Euro-African Memories: Colonial and Postcolonial Spanish legacies in Morocco & Equatorial Guinea
Crossing the Strait: Coloniality in the Musical Culture of Post-Independence Spanish Morocco
March 14-15
Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC - Barcelona, Spain
2017
Middle-Eastern Studies Association Annual Meeting
A Tale of Two Protectorates: Cultural Hegemony in Colonial Morocco and Its Impact on Indigenous Musics
November 18-21
Washington, D.C.
“Colonial Morocco Revisited” International Workshop
‘The Powers That Be’: Cultural Hegemony in Colonial Morocco and Its Impact on Indigenous Musics
July 12-13
Center Jacques Berque - Rabat, Morocco
“Evolutions or revolutions? Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African Music” Conference
‘The Powers That Be’: Cultural Hegemony in Colonial Morocco and Its Impact on Indigenous Musics
June 13-14
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales - Paris, France
"Interweaving Cultures: Theory and Practice"
Enduring Echoes of al-Andalus: Cultural Policy and the Status of Indigenous Musics in Protectorate and Post-Independence Morocco
March 8-10
University of Malta - Valleta, Malta
Rocky Mountain Music Scholars' Conference
Enduring Echoes of al-Andalus: Cultural Policy and the Status of Indigenous Musics in Protectorate and Post-Independence Morocco
April 7-8
University of Utah - Salt Lake City, UT
Society for Ethnomusicology - Niagara chapter
A Tale of Two Protectorates: Cultural Hegemony in Colonial Morocco and Its Impact on Indigenous Musics"
March 24-25
Kent State University - Warren, OH
“Music: Order and Disorder” Columbia University Music Scholarship Conference
A Tale of Two Protectorates: Cultural Hegemony in Colonial Morocco and Its Impact on Indigenous Musics
March 4
Columbia University - New York
2016
The Legacy of Al-Andalus Symposium
‘The Road Less Travelled’: The Moroccan Malḥūn and the Migration of the Andalusian Muwashshaḥ
April 7
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Cultivating Arab Culture Pedagogies for Educators
Navigating between the Secular and the Religious: Case study of Andalusian music in the City of Titwan and al-Zawiya al H'arraqiyya
July 29
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference
Enduring Echoes of al-Andalus: Cultural Policy and the Status of Indigenous Musics in Protectorate and Post-Independence Morocco
November 10-13
Washington, D.C.
“Routes of Difference: Migration in Artistic, Academic and Media Discourses” Conference
East-West Hybridity in the Work of Arab-American Composers in the U.S.
November 24-25
Catholic University of Portugal - Lisboa, Portugal
Musicians in the Mediterranean: Narratives of Movement
‘The Road Less Travelled’: The Moroccan Malḥūn and the Migration of the Andalusian Muwashshaḥ
June 21-26
Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella - Napoli, Italy
2015
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference
East-West Hybridity in the Work of Arab-American Composers in the U.S.
February 11-14
University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, NM
2014
“Musical Traditions in North Africa” Symposium
Towards Setting a Course for 21st-Century Studies in Maghrebi Ethnomusicology: Three Key Questions.
December 8-10
Center of Arab and Mediterranean Music - Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
Arab Arts & Culture Course for Educators
The Rahbani Brothers and Fairuz, Lebanese Cultural Icons in the 20th Century
June 23
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference
The Sacred & the Profane: The Role of the Harrāqī & Raissūnī Sufi Orders in Preserving the Heritage of Andalusian Music in Tetuán, Mor.
November 13-16
Pittsburgh, PA
2013
Sequestering Tradition?: A Cultural Sustainability Symposium
“A Sojourn Elsewhere”: Preserving the Turath in the Arab Diaspora
April 15-18
Sterling College - Craftsbury Common, VT
2012
Society for Ethnomusicology/American Musicological Society: Annual Joint meeting
Deconstructing a Medieval Legend: Guido d'Arezzo, the "Arabian Influence", and the Role of "Historical Imagination"
November 1-4
New Orleans, LA
2011
Conversations 2011: Music Scholarship in Dialogue
‘Inta ‘Omri’: A Merging of Western Influence and Eastern Tradition in Egyptian Music
February 4-5
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
Society for Ethnomusicology - Niagara chapter
‘Inta ‘Omri’: A Precious yet Painful Collaboration; A Merging of Western Influence and Eastern Tradition in Egyptian Music
March 4-5
Eastman School of Music - Rochester, NY
Society for Ethnomusicology - MIDSEM chapter
The Absence of the Blue-Print: Informal Pedagogy and the Perpetuation of Classical Arabic Music
April 8-10
Bowling Green State University - Bowling Green, OH
Hybridity in Music Conference
East-West Hybridity in the Work of Arab-American Composers in the U.S.
March 26
University of Miami - Miami, FL
6th International Conference on the Arts in Society
The Demise of Classical Arabic Music
May 9-11
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences & Humanities - Berlin, Germany
2011 Society for Ethnomusicology/Congress on Research in Dance Annual Conference
Endgame: The Role of Arab-American Composers in the Preservation, Hybridization, and Eventual Evanescence of Traditional Arabic Music in the U.S.
November 17-20
Philadelphia, PA
2010
Arabic Music Symposium
Arabic Music. Condition: Critical!
February 23
University of Florida - Gainesville, FL