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Title: [REDACTED]: 2026 Columbia Music Scholarship Conference

Time: April 10, 2026 8:30am-5:30pm

Location: Deutsches Haus (420 W 116th St, New York, NY 10027)

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The Organization of Music Graduate Students at Columbia University is pleased to announce the [REDACTED]: 2026 Columbia Music Scholarship Conference held on Friday, April 10, 2026.

We are broadly interested in exploring silences—intentional and imposed—that expand conventional understandings of how both sound and society are organized. The chilling of speech and brute coercion of academic norms toward self-censorship, driven by populist and reactionary thought, have forced us to consider these issues. How is silence produced, aestheticized, enforced, or endured, and what might attention to silences reveal about censorship and political economy, compositional aesthetics, violence, memorialization, and other key questions in music and sound studies?

The keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Alejandra Bronfman, Professor of Caribbean Studies and History at SUNY Albany, and Fellow at the National Humanities Center. Dr. Bronfman’s research interests include the production of knowledge, racialization, and technology's role in the amplification of marginalized voices with a focus on the Caribbean in the 20th century.

Sponsored by the Arts and Sciences Graduate Council.