Venue: EMP|SFM Lobby

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Sarah Dougher

Andrea Bohlman, "Live from Beirut: Activist Sounds in the Blogosphere"

Leonard Pierce, "Wordless in Gaza: The Radical Electronica of Bryn Jones"

Banning Eyre, "Fela's Children: A Legacy of Groove and Grit"

Greil Marcus, "Still Here: The Protest Song at the I'm Not There Revue"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Oscar Garza

Eddy Alvarez, "Macho Menos Vaqueros: Negotiations of Masculinity and Sexuality in Mexican Regional Music"

Johanna F. Galarte, "BuchAztlan: Archiving Nationlessness, Queerness and Bucha Identity through Chavela Vargas and her Music"

Jose Anguiano Cortez, "Ay Morrisey!: Latino Morrissey Fanaticos and the Renewed Possibilities of Fandom, Race and Cultural Citizenship "

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Richard A. Peterson

Richard A. Peterson, "What It Takes to Be a Roots Music Hero"

Barry Mazor, "Jimmie Rodgers: The Original Roots Music Pop Hero"

Holly George-Warren, "Gene Autry – From 1930s Hillbilly to Wartime Movie Star Hero"

David Cantwell, "Elvis Presley: The Ultimate Roots Music Pop Hero"

Charles Hughes, "Sam Cooke: Pioneering R&B Hero"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Rachel Devitt

Barry Salmon, "Trauma and Cine-Musical Image: Music, Moving Image and Moral Universality"

Mary Greitzer, "Sound After Silence: Solo Voice, Sexual Violence"

Marianne Tatom Letts, "''You Forget So Easily'': Radiohead''s Amnesiac as a Failed ''Directed Forgetting'' of Trauma "