APME Miami 2026: Full Schedule

Welcome to the APME Miami 2026 Conference!
Here you can register and update your Sched profile. A draft schedule will be available March 1, when you’ll be able to explore sessions and build your agenda.

Questions? Visit our website or email [email protected].

Join us June 4–6 at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami, as we celebrate the rhythms, relationships, and revolutions shaping popular music education.

You will be able to validate your attendance (Check-In to sessions) using your personal schedule.

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10:00am EDT

Segregated Sounds: Subalternity within Contemporary Salsa Dancing

Saturday June 6, 2026 10:00am - 10:55am EDT

Volpe 207 @ Volpe Building, San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, USA

A panel presentation on how contemporary salsa dance's
segregated representation
isolates marginalized identities and obscures salsa’s political history and serves to
legitimize existing hierarchies of wealth, geography, race, and status.

Speakers

Nina Gumatay Diaz

PhD Student, University of Miami

Nina Gumatay Diaz (she/her) is a PhD student studying Literary and Cultural Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami. Prior to the program, she received her MA in English and Comparative Literature from the American University in Cairo... Read More →

Saturday June 6, 2026 10:00am - 10:55am EDT
Volpe 207 Volpe Building, San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, USA

👯‍♀️Panel (55), Culture and Belonging

APME Miami 2026

10:00am EDT

Nina Gumatay Diaz

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