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Thursday
, April 20
2:15pm PDT
Christians
Learning Labs
Jewly Hight • Jason E. Dodd • Anthony Easton • Chris Estey • Clare O’Connor
Futurism
JBL Theater
Jayna Brown • Michelle Habell-Pallán • Jack Hamilton • Jason Heller
Noise in the Screen
Demo Lab
Michaelangelo Matos • Christine Capetola • Meenasarani Linde Murugan • Alyxandra Vesey
4:00pm PDT
Artist Interview: A Conversation with David Byrne
Sky Church
David Byrne
5:15pm PDT
Early 20th Century Sweet and Hot
JBL Theater
Daniel Goldmark • Allison McCracken • Jody Rosen • Lauren Sklaroff • Steve Waksman
Musicians In Action
Learning Labs
Maura Johnston • Allison Hussey • Patrick St. Michel • Chris Molanphy • Tim Quirk
Peak Counterculture
Demo Lab
Gus Stadler • Dan Booth • Heather Booth • Mairead Case • Alex LaRotta • Nicolette Rohr
7:15pm PDT
Opening Reception
CULTURE KITCHEN by Wolfgang Puck
Friday
, April 21
9:00am PDT
Motown
JBL Theater
Jack Hamilton • Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. • Emily Lordi • Salamishah Tillet • Gayle Wald
Paranoid
Learning Labs
Mairead Case • Malcolm Boyle • Jesse Jarnow • Timothy Murphy • Andy Zax
State Politics: US, Australia and UK
Demo Lab
David Suisman • Kate Becker • Martin Cloonan • Shane Homan • John Street
11:15am PDT
Artistic Freedom
JBL Theater
Evelyn McDonnell • Jalylah Burrell • Ann Powers • RJ Smith • Annie Zaleski
I Fought the Law
Hyatt House
Katherine Meizel • Darin DeWitt • Jarryn Ha • Rachel Miller • Stan Soocher
Politics of Sex and Consent
Learning Labs
Maria Elena Buszek • Jane Kozey • Lucy O’Brien • Rebecca Sheehan • Tyina Steptoe
Staging Race
Demo Lab
Tavia Nyong’o • Diana Buendía • Lucy Caplan • Jerome Dotson • Michael Millner
2:00pm PDT
Government Agency
Hyatt House
Greil Marcus • Sheryl Kaskowitz • Alfred Soto • Jeff Treviño
Performance of Diaspora
Demo Lab
Jack Halberstam • Douglas S. Ishii • Jade Power Sotomayor • Thea Quiray Tagle
The All-Star Charity Single, Reconsidered
JBL Theater
Jody Rosen • Jason King • Karen Tongson • Carl Wilson
Trap Rap’s Crossover Into Mainstream Pop
Learning Labs
Regina N. Bradley • Fredara Mareva Hadley • Jack Hamilton • Marco Pavé • Zandria F. Robinson
3:45pm PDT
Black Politics in the Reagan Era
Learning Labs
Salamishah Tillet • Jayna Brown • DJ Lynée Denise • Tavia Nyong’o
Listening
Hyatt House
Holly Gleason • Whitney Jones • Glenn McDonald • Sarah Messbauer
Radio
Demo Lab
Diane Pecknold • Sophie Abramowitz • Karl Hagstrom Miller • Joey Thompson
Remembering Juan Gabriel
JBL Theater
José G. Anguiano • Iris C. Avendaño • Anel Bautista Bravo • Nicholas F. Centino • Jorge N. Leal • Fabian Romero
5:30pm PDT
Diaspora Civics
Demo Lab
Charles Mudede • Banning Eyre • Tinashe Mushakavanhu • Antonia Randolph
Punk and Disorderly
JBL Theater
Damon Krukowski • Jon Langford • Greil Marcus • Franz Nicolay • Jenn Pelly
War
Hyatt House
Jaime Cardenas • Danielle Stein • David Suisman • John Williamson
Soul and the Voice of (Obama’s) America
Learning Labs
Shana L. Redmond • Wade Fulton Dean • Robert Fink • Alisha Gaines • LaCharles Ward
Saturday
, April 22
9:00am PDT
Gender to Sender
Learning Labs
Sarah Dougher • Jonathan Bogart • Ginger Dellenbaugh • Emily Gale • Kembrew McLeod
Red, White & You
Hyatt House
Alfred Soto • David Cantwell • Stephen Thomas Erlewine • Keith Harris • Michaelangelo Matos
What Is Politics?
JBL Theater
Ali Colleen Neff • Barry Shank • Christine Bacareza Balance • Maria Elena Buszek • Nadine Hubbs • Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. • Bettina Judd
11:15am PDT
Bad Behavior
JBL Theater
David Greenwald • Stephen M. Deusner • Maura Johnston • Claire Lobenfeld
Ragtime and Tin Pan Alley
Demo Lab
Tyina Steptoe • David Gilbert • Daniel Goldmark • Amalia Mallard
Voice Control
Hyatt House
Tim Quirk • Damon Krukowski • Katherine Meizel • Elena Razlogova
Soul Politics in the 21st Century
Learning Labs
Emily Lordi • I. Augustus Durham • Fredara Mareva Hadley • Charles L. Hughes • Mark Anthony Neal
1:00pm PDT
Lunch Session: Music and Politics Now Kickoff
Sky Church
Sean Nelson • Robert Christgau • dream hampton
2:00pm PDT
Soap Box Presentations
Sky Church
Sean Nelson
Britbeat
Demo Lab
Gina Arnold • Tom Ewing • Anna Leszkiewicz • Hazel Sheffield • Laura Snapes
Politics of Memory
Learning Labs
Oliver Wang • Jocelyn Brown • Meghan Drury • Pete L’Official • Carlo Rotella
Post-Dixie Chicks Politics
JBL Theater
David Cantwell • Jon Freeman • Jewly Hight • Nadine Hubbs • Chris Willman
Protest Music in History
Hyatt House
Charles R. Cross • Donna Gaines • Evelyn McDonnell • Shana L. Redmond • Solvej Schou
2:30pm PDT
The Combahee River Collective Mixtape: Black Feminist Sonic Dissent Then & Now
Sky Church
Daphne Brooks • Kara Keeling • Jacqueline Stewart
4:15pm PDT
Cold War
Demo Lab
Steve Waksman • Marilisa Merolla • Lauren Rever • Tom Smucker
Girls and Girlhoods
Hyatt House
Lara Langer Cohen • Alexandra Apolloni • Sarah Dougher • Yessica Garcia Hernandez • Diane Pecknold • Jessica L. Robinson
Sounds from the Underground
JBL Theater
Jason King • Jack Halberstam • Josh Kun • Tim Lawrence • Gala Porras-Kim
Chocolate Cities
Learning Labs
Marcus Anthony Hunter • Zandria F. Robinson • Takima Darnell • Max Hunter • Marco Pavé
5:00pm PDT
Soap Box Presentations
Sky Church
Evelyn McDonnell
6:15pm PDT
Voicing Change: The Artist and the Political Life
Sky Church
Ann Powers • Meredith Graves • Mike Hadreas • Tanya Tagaq
Sunday
, April 23
9:00am PDT
Sounds of Possibility
Learning Labs
Charles L. Hughes • Regina N. Bradley • Courtney Bryan • Ashon Crawley • Matt Sakakeeny
Well-Meaning Sentiments
JBL Theater
Emily Gale • Pamela Fox • Gus Stadler • Karen Tongson • Eric Weisbard
11:15am PDT
Performing Politics
Learning Labs
Sonnet Retman • Elaine Kathryn Andres • Brady James Forrest • Jessica Pruett
Freedom Sounds in a National Museum
JBL Theater
Regina N. Bradley • Timothy Anne Burnside • Dwan Reece • Kevin Strait
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