Invited Lectures/Educator

2026

• “Resonant Listening: Voice, Sound, and Ethics of Mediation.” “Act of Translation: Personal Stories in a Post-Survivor World.” Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern Regional Institute, Los Angeles, CA. February 28-2.

2025

• “Viral Harm, Contested Definitions: Antisemitism and the Politics of Listening.” UCLA Leve Center for Jewish Studies. November 13.

• “Sonic Antisemitism.” For Dr. Samantha Cooper’s “Music in Jewish History: Sounding Antisemitism.” University of Kansas—Lawrence. November 12.

• “The Aging Voice as Archive: Listening Methodologies for Holocaust Testimony.” The Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Texas—Dallas. September 9.

• Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern Visiting Speakers Bureau: “Curating Memory: Trauma and Public Memory of the Holocaust.” For Dr. Steven Sacks’s “Holocaust: Trauma and Memory.” Cornell College. September 5.

• “Musik in Ausstellungen zum Holocaust.” Einladen zum Workshop “Räume hören : Handreichungen und Hörexperimente zur Erinnerungskultur.” Wolfenbüttel, Germany. May.

• “Resonance and Remembrance: The Violin in Holocaust Cinema.” UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Los Angeles, CA. February 25.

2024

• “Music and the Holocaust.” “Witness: Mediating Testimony and the Arts.” Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern Regional Institute. Bellingham, WA. April 17-19, 2024.

2023

• “Antisemitism, Music, and Music Studies: Views from the Field.” Jewish Studies and Music Study Group. Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society. Denver, CO. November.

• “Teaching the Holocaust Through Pop Culture.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Discussions in Contemporary Holocaust Education. July.

• “Sounding Memory, Mediating Trauma: Holocaust Economy and the Politics of Sound.” Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Mainland Bowdoin College. Portland, ME. March.

2022

• “AudioGuides and Holocaust Tourism.” Conference on Contemporary Views in Austrian Studies. Der Österreich-Zentren, Leiden, Netherlands. June.

Roundtables/Workshops Organized

2025

• “Studying Social Media and New Methodologies for Jewish Studies n the Digital Age.” With Jennifer Association for Jewish Studies. Washington, D.C., December.

• “Music, Silence, and Social Action in an Age of Perpetual Crisis.” With Seth Brodsky (UChicago); Michael Gallope (UMinnesota); Jenny Johnson (UCLA); Alisha Jones (UCambridge); Luis-Manuel Garcia-Mispireta (UBirmingham); and Shayna Silverstein (NorthwesternU). Joint Meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory. Minneapolis, MN. November.

Refereed Conference Presentations

2025

• “Listening to Absence and Struggle: Soundscapes, Antisemitism, and Jewish Memory in A Real Pain (2024) and The Brutalist (2024).” Association for Jewish Studies. Washington, D.C. December.

• “Digital Afterlives: Ethics of Preserving Holocaust Memory through AI.” POLIN—Confronting Holocaust Distortion in the Digital Age. Warsaw, Poland. November 18-20.

• “Sonic Antisemitism: Auditory Mechanisms of Hate on Social Media.” Music, Sound, and Antisemitism Symposium. Center for Jewish History—New York City, NY: May.

2024

• “Polarization and Performative Activism: Identity Politics in Post-October 7th Discourse on Social Media.” Association for Jewish Studies. Online. December.

• “Resonant Legacies, Dissonant Translations: A Comparative Ethnographic Analysis of Sonic Curation in Holocaust and US Lynching Memorial Sites.” Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society. Chicago, IL. November.

2023

• “Underscoring Virality: TikTok, Music, and Antisemitic Enabling.” Society for American Music. Minneapolis, MN. March.

2022

• “Holocaust Ventriloquism: Virtual Spectacles or Living Performance?” Joint Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Society for Music Theory, and the Society for Ethnomusicology. New Orleans, LA. November.

• “Witnessing Witnessing: Holocaust Holograms and the Legacy of Lived Testimony.” Lessons and Legacies XVI. Ottawa, Canada. November.

2021

• “The Sonic Sensorium of Concentration Camp ‘Babel’: Reception and Description of Language in Holocaust Testimonies and Written Memoirs.” Regional Interim Meeting of Lessons and Legacies. Knoxville, TN. October.

• “Holocaust Tourism Revisited: Holocaust Memorial Culture between Education, Tourism, and Commemoration.” German Studies Association 46th Annual Conference. Indianapolis, IN. October.

2019

• “Sound Ethics?: Treblinka, Ceremonial Silence, and AudioTrip.” Yad Vasham International Workshop—”Holocaust Sources: Truth, Interpretation, and (Mis)Use in the Digital Era.” Jerusalem, Israel. November.

• “Guiding or Obscuring?: Questioning the Sonic Infrastructure of Treblinka’sAudioGuide.” Special Session of Lessons and Legacies. Munich, Germany. November.

• “Treblinka as Virtual Soundscape: AudioTrip and Polish Holocaust Memory.” American Musicological Society. Boston, MA. November.

2018

• “Sounding Narratives, Varying ‘Voices',’ Affective Sonic Media in Jewish Museum Holocaust Representations.” USA European Studies Conference. Omaha, NE. October.

2017

• “Musical Witnessing: George Takei’s Japanese Internment Camp Musical.” Literature and Film Association Conference—Politic,s, Ethics, and Adaptations. Missoula, MT. October.

2016

• “Explaining the Misunderstood: The Incomprehensibility of Hanns Eisler’s Night and Fog Film Score.” NYU Steinhardt Music and Moving Images Annual Conference. New York City, NY. May.

Conferences and Seminars Organized

2026

• “Sonic Representations of Jewishness On Screen and OFf.” UCLA Lowell Milken Center for the American Jewish Experience and the Center for Musical Humanities. With Mark Kligman, Raymond Knapp, Holley Replogle-Wong, and Daniela Levy. April.

• Lead Organizer. “Symposium on Sound and Hate.” UCLA Co-Sponsorship with the Initiative to Study Hate and the Center for Musical Humanities. April.

2024

• “A Musical Remembrance: International Holocaust Remembrance Day Program.” Vanderbilt University Musical Program with Professor Amy Jarman and Vanderbilt Students. Co-Sponsored by Blair School of Music and the Department for Jewish Studies—Vanderbilt University.

2023

• Nissim Black at Bowdoin. Lecture and Concert with the Support of Bowdoin Hillel and the Departments of Music, German, Dance, Religious Studies, and Africana Studies. March.

2017

• “Techniques of Listening.” A Sound Studies Conference. University of Minnesota —Twin Cities. With Mikkel Vad, Matthew Tchepikova-Treon, and Dana DeVlieger. September.