Call for Proposals: "TRANS∗Media”Harvard Graduate Music Forum 2025 ConferenceCambridge, MA | February 28–March 1, 2025 

∗Deadline extended to January 5th, 2025 at 11:59PM!∗

 The Harvard Graduate Music Forum invites proposals for individual papers and alternative-format presentations (lecture-recitals, performance demonstrations, etc.) for its 2025 conference, “TRANS∗Media.” We welcome submissions from graduate students, researchers, musicians, sound artists, and practitioners from diverse disciplines to join us in exploring the role of music and sound in relating trans∗ness to experiences of moving across, between, and beyond multiple media forms, technologies, and narratives. We are particularly interested in proposals that center the works, practices, experiences, and lives of transgender and transsexual individuals and communities. The conference will feature a keynote by Dr. McKenzie Wark, author of Raving (2023) and A Hacker’s Manifesto (2006), as well as a video art screening and talkback with Dr. Nguyễn Tân Hoàng, author of A View From the Bottom (2014) and creator of video works such as Forever Bottom!, K.I.P., and look_im_azn. We address two principal questions: How does sound and/or music move across, between, and beyond media? And how does sound and/or music move media? Possible topics of interest may include, but are not limited to:

• Trans∗ listening, musicking, vocality 
• Trans∗ technicity and technologies
• Trans∗ media forms, connectivities, and histories
• Trans∗ and transmedia storytelling, intermedia, and media mixture
• Trans∗ identities, experiences, and epistemologies
• Trans∗ of color critique
• Trans∗ disability critique and trans∗/crip theory
• Trans∗ radical critique (Marxism, anarchism, etc.)
• Trans∗ as method, methodology, praxis 
• Trans∗ theories in the classroom, campuses, communities

 Please submit abstracts (max. 250 words) by the extended deadline of Sunday, January 5, 2025, at 11:59 PM to https://forms.gle/ykPVpwPbtKQ8VbSP8. For further details, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/gmf2025-transmedia, or email stephenai@g.harvard.edu. Organizers:Stephen Tian-You AiChristina Misaki Nikitin