Events
Selected events
All times EST (US) unless otherwise noted
2025
April 23 6:00pm The Forum, New York
SOUNDING THE OCEAN with JESSICA SCHWARTZ, ANNE BECEL, and PATRICK NASON
March 27 4:15pm Music Colloquium, SUNY Stony Brook
SOUND WAVES: LISTENING TO AND WITH THE PACIFIC
February 8 4:00pm (JST) Keio University, Japan
HIROSHIMA: SONGS OF THE SANSEI
January 10 5pm (NZDT) University of Wellington, New Zealand
george helm: A TRUE HAWAIIAN SOUNDS OUT ALOHA 'ĀINA
2024
October 19 12:15pm Metal and Change, University of Dayton
METAL CHANGES EVERYTHING: POLYNESIAN METAL BANDS EMPOWERING INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
May 4 7pm Miller Theatre, New York
KĪ HŌ'ALU IN MANHATTAN with KEOLA & MOANALANI BEAMER, YUKI 'ALANI YAMAUCHI, and PATRICK LANDEZA
April 5 10am-5pm Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University
Don't jive me: gender and jazz symposium
2023
December 9-10 Japanese Association for the Study of Popular Music annual conference, Shikoku Gakuin University, Japan
INTER-ASIA(S): IS 'ASIAN AMERICA' (also) IN 'ASIA'?
October 19 6pm Columbia University
HAWAIIAN SOUL FILM SCREENING
In conversation with filmmaker, 'Āina Paikai,
October 6-7 Iberian Soundscapes in India and Brazil conference, Yale University
LEARNING TO LISTEN WITH EMPATHY
June 26 4:30-6:30pm International Association for the Study of Popular Music International Branch biennial conference
'FEELING ALMOST HAWAIIAN INSIDE': THE POLITICS OF BELONGING FOR JAPANESE MUSICIANS PERFORMING HAWAIIAN MUSIC
February 17 9am-6pm Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University
Asian American Jazz symposium: Past, Present, Future
2022
November 11 7:30pm (CST) Society for Ethnomusicology/American Musicological Society/Society for Music Theory joint conference
Tiny Bubbles: Don Ho and the Case for 'Hapa Hawaiian' Music
October 14 10am-5:30pm Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University
Fusion SYMPosium: Remixing Jazz, Rethinking genre
July 05 10 pm International Association for the Study of Popular Music International Branch biennial conference
Nothing is Everything, Something is Pink Cloud: Pink Cloud'S Cloudland and the Making of Something Out of EverythiNG
April 05 6:30 pm Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS), Columbia University Conversations Series
A Conversation with Deborah Wong (University of California, Riverside/Music) about Listen But Don't Ask Question: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Across the TransPacific
March 25 5:30 pm Association of Asian Studies annual conference
'Asia - Latin America' as Performance and Knowledge: Decentering Global Music History in the 20th Century
Invited respondent
2021
Dec 06 3:30 pm International Association for the Study of Popular Music - Canada Popular Music Futures Series
Those Days Are Gone Forever: Steely Dan’s Grumpy Old Guys’ Blues
Oct 05 2:15 pm Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College Polycultural America Speaker Series
Nahenahe (soft, sweet, melodious): The Restorative Politics of Hawaiian Music
Sept 28 6:15 pm Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University
Celebrating Recent Work by Kevin Fellezs: Listen But Don't Ask Question: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Across the TransPacific
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