Select events and sessions at the 2026 AMS Annual Meeting are free and open to members of the public with the completion of our Public Attendee Registration Form. Free public attendance is limited to a few sessions only. To attend all sessions and events associated with the AMS Annual Meeting, please visit the annual meeting registration page and complete our regular attendee registration form.
(Limited session access)
The following sessions are free to attend with the completion of our public registration form:
Saturday, 14 November
Rethinking the A and I of AI: Of Music, Mind, Mechanism, and Machine
10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. EST
Presenter: Lydia Goehr, Columbia University
Organized by the Committee on the Annual Meeting and Public Events
“Viral Jazz”: A Very Online Discussion About Online Musicking
12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. EST
Organized by the Jazz & Improvisation Study Group
“Canciones Neogranadinas” and the Latin American Villancico: Domestic Practices and Transregional Networks (1850–1930)
12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. EST
Performer: La Lira Antioqueña
Organized by the ARLAC-IMS Working Group “The Villancico in Hispanic America.”
Saturday, 15 November
Arise, My Love: Renaissance Polyphony Inspired by the Song of Songs
2:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. EST
Location: Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio / Zoom Session Room 1
Performer: Fior Angelico
Organized by the AMS Midwest Chapter
Thursday, 19 November
Trans Musical Activism: A Conversation with CN Lester
10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. EST
Presenter: CN Lester (London, UK)
Organized by the LGBTQ Study Group
Becoming Lloronas: Walking and Wailing toward Healing (Committee on Women and Gender Lecture)
12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. EST
Presenter: Ana Alonso Minutti (University of New Mexico)
Organized by the Committee on Women and Gender
Sounds of Korea: Tradition and Continuation
8:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m. EST
Presenter: Department of Korean Traditional Music, College of Music, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
Organized by the IMS Regional Association for East Asia (IMSEA)
Friday, 20 November
The Pitch of Blackness: Sounding Race on Broadway (Critical Race Lecture)
12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. EST
Presenter: Masi Asare (Northwestern University)
Organized by the Committee on Race, Indigeneity, and Ethnicity
Forensic Musicology Then, Now & Tomorrow
6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. EST
Presenters: Katherine Leo (Millikin University); Joe Bennett (Berklee College of Music); Claire McLeish (Grayson Music)
Gullah Geechee Spirituals and Shout Songs
8:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m. EST
Performers: Gullah Geeche Ring Shouters; Voices of Gullah Singers; McIntosh County Shouters; Morehouse College Glee Club
Musicology Across Borders: An International Summit
8:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m. EST
Presenters: Daniel Chua (University of Hong Kong); Juan-Pablo González (Universidad Alberto Hurtado); Emanuele Senici (Sapienza University of Rome); Ayana Smith (Indiana University)
Organized by the Committee on the Annual Meeting and Public Events