#  Graduate Music Forum Conference: THE MATTER OF THE POROUS 

 



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 **April 17 - April 18, 2026** 

 09:00AM - 05:00PM EDT 

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 **Fanny P. Mason Music Building**  



 

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## **Harvard Graduate Music Forum Conference 2026:**   
***THE MATTER OF THE POROUS***

### **Keynote Lectures:**  
Katherine In-Young Lee  
Kerim Yasar  
Báyò Akómoláfé   
Michael Birenbaum Quintero

The recent "material turn" challenges us to reconsider the foundations of the humanities, the production of the voice, \[anti/\]biography of bodies (human or non-human; musical or otherwise), embodiment and the social and politicized relationship an object holds to its surroundings. We are invested in exploring the tension between performer/audience, ethnographer/informant, instrument/player, and so forth. A central question which arises from this endeavour is what are the potentials and pitfalls of an analysis that privileges the agency of matter?

For more information, visit the [GSAS Engage website](https://engage.gsas.harvard.edu/event/12333561).



 

 



 

 

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