Recent Conference Presentations
Beeps over Brussels: Soviet Electronic Music at the 1958 World’s Fair
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention (New Orleans, LA)
November 18-21, 2021
Sounds Like Lenin: Noise and the Problems of Soviet Modernity
American Musicological Society Annual Meeting (Virtual)
November 21, 2021
On Posthuman Soundscapes and Nuclear Futures
Responses in Music to Climate Change Conference (Virtual)
October 5-7, 2021
Perestroika’s Noisy Bodies
North East Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Conference (New York, NY)
April 4, 2020
Earth and the Heavens, Soviet Style: Science and Belief in the Space Age (ROUNDTABLE)
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention (San Francisco, CA)
November 23-26, 2019
Soviet Power in Two Channels: Toward a Socialist Realist Sound Fidelity
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention (San Francisco, CA)
November 23-26, 2019
Synthesized Socialism: Soviet Modernity, Electronic Music, and the Politics of Timbre in the Early Cold War
American Musicological Society Annual Meeting (Boston, MA)
October 31-November 3, 2019
Underground Music, Politics, and Culture in Soviet and Post-Soviet Space (Roundtable)
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention (Boston, MA)
December 6-9, 2018
Listening to Leniniana: Re-Sounding History in the Brezhnev Era
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention (Boston, MA)
December 6-9, 2018
Shostakovich Builds a Home
Royal Musicological Association Annual Conference (Bristol, UK)
September 13-15, 2018
Sounds Like Lenin: Noise and the Problems of Socialist Modernity
British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference (Cambridge, UK)
April 13-15, 2018
Sounding the Gulag: Toward a Sonic History of the Soviet Labor Camps
American Musicological Society Annual Meeting (Rochester, NY)
November 9-12, 2017.
Singing the Motherland: Trauma, Parody, and Popular Song in the Soviet Labor Camps
International Association for the Study of Popular Music – United States Annual Conference (Cleveland, OH)
February 23-25, 2017
“Communists, Komsomols, Pioneers!”: Soviet Popular Song and the Making of the Cosmonaut Everyman
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention (Washington, DC)
November 17-20, 2016
Liza’s Transmigration: Urban Decay and Fin-de-Siècle Suicide in Chaikovsky’s Queen of Spades
Nineteenth Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music (Oxford, UK)
July 11-13, 2016
Sergei’s Failed Monument: The Aesthetics of Traumatic Realism in Prokofiev’s Ode to the End of War (1945)
Symposium on Prokofiev and the Russian Tradition (Baton Rouge, LA)
February 25-27, 2016