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The Committee on Women and Gender Endowed Lecture, begun in 2017, is presented at the Annual Meeting each year and provides a platform for important scholarship in fields related to the committee’s charge. The lecture is organized each year by the members of the Society’s Committee on Women and Gender, which is charged with spotlighting and exploring research and scholarship on the intersections of music, gender and sexuality. This lecture is endowed and has been generously funded through the contributions of AMS members.
Recent Lectures
- 2024 Annual Meeting: “’She Proclaimed a Chicago Renaissance’: Mapping Black Women’s Classical World-Making” by Samantha Ege
- 2023 Annual Meeting: “My Life in Music: An Autoethnography of a Curator” by Dwandalyn R. Reece
- 2022 Annual Meeting: “‘We Have to Reimagine’: Centering Women/Gender/Sexuality in Music Studies” by Ellie Hisama
My Life in Music: An Autoethnography of a Curator
In this lecture, Dwandalyn R. Reece uses autoethnography to reflect upon her thirty-five years’ worth of experience in the public sector as a curator and scholar of music. It is a story that places her life and career against the social, political, and cultural backdrop of the ensuing decades after the Civil Rights Movement where revolutions of the sixties set the stage for navigating what living in an integrated society that supports the equal rights of all citizens really meant. By turning a critical lens on to her personal life and career, Reece hopes to situate her creative and professional practices as a museum professional within broader conversations about race, music, identity, scholarship and serving public audiences.
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