Dialogue 1: Intersecting Modalities in Music and Dance Research and Dissemination 

Date: Saturday, 13 September 2025, 13:00-15:00 (UTC+3) [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]

The first ICTMD Dialogues 2025 session focuses on “Intersecting Modalities in Music and Dance Research and Dissemination.” This thematic focus invites us to consider the transformative possibilities and implications of working with diverse knowledge holders, forms of knowledge, and ways of knowing. 

Researchers in our fields are innovating research and dissemination practices - partly to foster greater inclusivity and equity, and also to find avenues to create and share knowledge in ways that honour the multiple modalities of creative practice studies. This includes a range of approaches, among them: 

• practice-based research, artistic research, and research-creation
• oral, aural, inter-sensory, multi-sensory, and multi-modal practices
• applied, activist, advocacy, allyship, and anti-racist methodologies
• participatory, collaborative, community-engaged, and community-led strategies including citizen research
• new technologies, and how they may afford or constrain possibilities for research and dissemination
• the role of nature and the entanglement of human and non-human agents in research

In this ICTMD Dialogues 2025 session, presenters will explore a number of these new approaches and how they intersect with one another. 

Moderator: Shzr Ee Tan and Sarah Weiss

Pirkko Moisala (Finland): Towards Studying Musical Assemblages of the Non-Human and Human

Brian Diettrich (New Zealand): Sound and Stars in the Time of Matariki: New Imaginings for Research across the Humanities, Space Science, and Indigenous Knowledge 

Andrea Chamorro Pérez (Chile): Screen/Video Dance and Anthropological Imagination: Notes on the Arts of Correspondence

Brett Pyper (South Africa): Beyond the “Applied”: Advancing Transformative, Practice-led Approaches to Concert Programming in Postcolonial South Africa

Urmimala Sarkar (India): Re-searching Dance: Exploring Methodologies for Critical Dance Studies in India

Dialogue 2: Music and Dance Research in Times of Crises

Date: Saturday, 11 October 2025, 11:00-13:00 (UTC+1) [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]

The emergence and steady expansion of research addressing theoretically and methodologically diverse contexts of crisis and conflict around the globe (e.g., Pettan 1998, Araujo 2006, Ochoa 2006, Dirksen 2012, Ruiz 2021, Quintero Rivera 2021, Levignat 2021, Garcia 2021) is a groundbreaking trend in music and dance studies (Rice 2014). Deeply committed to working closely and horizontally with their interlocutors to overcome the harsh and often predatory pressures on their lived realities, such initiatives have informed a plethora of more specialized subfields. These include areas of research - often referred to as applied, medical, participatory, engaged (eco-) ethnomusicology/ethnochoreology - in which communities and researchers develop collaborative strategies in search of more auspicious forms of coexistence.

This session will address the ethics of care for both researchers and the people with whom they work. They include, especially, those who are living in the face of man-made and natural disasters, conflict, violence, political, socioeconomic and medical crises, technological problems, censorship regimes, and funding cuts, challenges that are often experienced in ways that are intertwined. Accordingly, the presentations will explore how all parties involved cope with various crises and conflict situations through their collaborative actions, potentials and pitfalls to be addressed in the course of their joint work, how academic institutions can be mobilized to make a difference in the crucible of action (Seeger 2008), among other issues. 

Moderator: Samuel Araújo

María Gabriela López-Yánez (Ecuador): “We Will Never Be White”: Dancing Ecuadorian Identities as Resistance in the Midst of a National Crisis

Ioannis Tsioulakis (Greece/UK): Music Labour in Times of Crisis: Epistemological and Ethical Implications for Ethnomusicology

Olcay Muslu (Turkey): Rebuilding Beyond Bricks: Music Education for Long-Term Recovery in Hatay's Post-Earthquake Schools

Ukeme Udoh and Isaac Ibude (Nigeria): Shared Voices: The Survival of Nigerian Music and Dance Research in Times of Crises

Irene Karongo Hundleby (Solomon Islands/New Zealand): Resilience and Adaptation in Solomon Islands through Times of Crises