President's Endowed Plenary Lecture

An annual lecture delivered at the Annual Meeting by a speaker selected by the AMS President

About

The President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture, begun in 2013, is presented by an invited speaker at the Annual Meeting by a prominent scholar or scholars selected by the president. The President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture is one of the most high profile sessions at the AMS Annual Meeting, and is usual attended by 200-300 people. The lecture was established and endowed by a gift from Elaine Sisman and Martin Fridson.

Recent Lectures

2024 Annual Meeting: “Post-Rumble Rumble: Inflection Points in Native American Music and Arts” by Philip J. Deloria
2023 Annual Meeting: “Dreaming Reparative Musicologies in a Paranoid Time” by Suzanne G. Cusick
2022 Annual Meeting: “Joy! A Well-Tempered Lesson in Good Living,” by Daniel K. L. Chua

Dreaming Reparative Musicologies in a Paranoid Time

This President’s Endowed Plenary lecture spotlights former AMS President and renowned musicologist, Suzanne Cusick, and her struggle to find reparative positions from which to do the intellectual work of musicology amid the swirling tangle of public and disciplinary paranoia that, to a greater or lesser extent, afflicts all of our intellectual lives. Among her heterogeneous helpers in that intellectual struggle are Marsilio Ficino, Robin James, Audre Lorde, Dylan Robinson, and a goodly number of card-carrying musicologists not be too numerous to be named.