See below for the conference program for Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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Schedule
2025
Thursday, June 12th
9:00 AM

From Theme Park to Theatre (and Back Again): Spatial Transmedia and the Disney Musical

Rebecca Williams, University of South Wales

9:00 AM
9:30 AM

More Magical Music: Epic Universe’s Ministry of Magic as an Extension of an Existing Musical Register

Dan White, University of Huddersfield

9:30 AM
10:00 AM

Part of that World: Sound-coded Seeing and Being in Theme Park Experiences

Clair Nguyen, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

10:00 AM
11:00 AM

The Musical History of Humans at the Zoo

Sarah Caissie Provost, University of Hartford

11:00 AM
11:30 AM

Disney, Copland, and Lincoln

David Miller, University of California - Berkeley

11:30 AM
1:00 PM

Problematizing the Sonic Constructs of Theme Parks: Toward a Postmodernist Ethnographic Methodology and Anthropocene-Infused Reformulation of Space

Scott A. Lukas, Lake Tahoe Community College

1:00 PM
1:30 PM

Placemaking and Soundscaping Practices in the Nested Acoustic Environments of Disney Theme Parks

Kate A. Galloway, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

1:30 PM
2:15 PM

Keynote Address: No Limits: Roller Coaster Simulator as Score and Instrument

Luke Nickel

2:15 PM