Schulich graduate students excel at Society for American Music conference
A record number of Schulich School of Music graduate students presented papers and participated in the 43rd Annual Society for American Music (SAM) Annual Conference, which was hosted by McGill University and held in Montreal from March 22-26. The Society for American Music is made up of scholars, performers, and students dedicated to the study, teaching, and creation of the musics of the Americas. Local arrangements and coordination for this year's conference were made by Professors Lisa Barg, chair, Sara Laimon, Lloyd Whitesell and post-doctural student Laura Risk.
A vast range of research was presented by students Sophie Kabbash, Vanessa Blais-Tremblay, Melvin Backstrom, Farley Miller, Jessica Holmes, Kiersten van Vliet, Mylene Gioffredo, Claire McLeish, Kristin Franseen, Laura Risk, Sean Lorre, and Ben Duinker. Collectively these students are expanding the range of knowledge by exploring what constitutes music research in the humanities, through their range of methodologies and they will lead musicology in new directions through the initiation of new conversations that will cause scholars to rethink the old and the new.