Events

Selected events

All times EST (US) unless otherwise noted

2025     

                                 March 27                        SOUND WAVES: LISTENING TO AND FOR THE PACIFIC

   4:15pm                           Music Colloquium, SUNY Stony Brook

   January 10                       A True Hawaiian: george helm and the politics of hawaiian song

   5pm                               University of Wellington, New Zealand

2024     

                       October 19                      METAL CHANGES EVERYTHING: POLYNESIAN METAL BANDS EMPOWERING                           12:15pm                          INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES

                                                             Metal and Change, University of Dayton

   May 4                             KĪ HŌ'ALU IN MANHATTAN with KEOLA & MOANALANI BEAMER,                           7pm                                YUKI 'ALANI YAMAUCHI, PATRICK LANDEZA

                               Miller Theatre, New York

   April 5                            Don't jive me: gender and jazz symposium

   10am-5pm                       Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University

2023     

                                December 9-10                 INTER-ASIA(S): IS 'ASIAN AMERICA' (also) IN 'ASIA'?

                                                                       Japanese Association for the Study of Popular Music annual conference, Shikoku Gakuin                                                                             University, Japan

                                October 19                       HAWAIIAN SOUL FILM SCREENING

            6pm                                 In conversation with filmmaker, 'Āina Paikai, Columbia University

                                October 6-7                      LEARNING TO LISTEN WITH EMPATHY                                                                                                                                         Iberian Soundscapes in India and Brazil conference, Yale University

                       June 26                           'FEELING ALMOST HAWAIIAN INSIDE': THE POLITICS OF BELONGING FOR                             4:30-6:30pm                     JAPANESE MUSICIANS PERFORMING HAWAIIAN MUSIC

                               International Association for the Study of Popular Music - International Branch biennial                                       conference

   February 17                     Asian American Jazz symposium: Past, Present, Future

   9am-6pm                        Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University

2022     

November 11                  Tiny Bubbles: Don Ho and the Case for 'Hapa Hawaiian' Music

7:30pm (CST)                 Society for Ethnomusicology/American Musicological Society/Society for Music Theory joint                                         conference

October 14                      Fusion SYMPosium: Remixing Jazz, Rethinking genre

10am-5:30pm                  Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University

July 05                            Nothing is Everything, Something is Pink Cloud: Pink Cloud's          

10 pm                            Cloudland and the Making of Something Out of Everything

                                      International Association for the Study of Popular Music - International Branch biennial                                                  conference

April 05                          A Conversation with Deborah Wong (University of California,

6:30 pm                          Riverside/Music) about Listen But Don't Ask Question: Hawaiian                                                Slack Key Guitar Across the TransPacific         

                                                Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS), Columbia University

                            Conversations Series

March 25                        'Asia - Latin America' as Performance and Knowledge: Decentering 5:30 pm                          Global Music History in the 20th Century, Invited respondent  

                                                Association of Asian Studies annual conference

2021     

          Dec 06                             Those Days Are Gone Forever: Steely Dan’s Grumpy Old Guys’ Blues

                              3:30 pm                            International Association for the Study of Popular Music - Canada

                                        Popular Music Futures Series

Oct 05                              Nahenahe (soft, sweet, melodious): The Restorative Politics of          2:15 pm                            Hawaiian Music

                              Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College

                                        Polycultural America Speaker Series

Sept 28                             Celebrating Recent Work by Kevin Fellezs: Listen But Don't Ask          6:15 pm                            Question: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Across the TransPacific           

                                                  Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University

LISTEN BUT DON'T ASK QUESTION PANEL

at the HEYMAN CENTER

Top row (R-L): Paige West, Kevin Fellezs, Aaron Fox

Bottom row (R-L): Christopher Washburne, Jessica Bissett-Perea