Five graduate students will read papers at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, being held in Honolulu this year, November 15–18. They are Benjamin Breuer, J. S. Kofi Gbolonyo, Eun-young Jung, Dorcinda Knauth, and Marie Agatha Ozah.

Bell Yung read a paper "Economic factors in the recent development of qin music in China" (in Chinese) at a conference on qin at the City University of Hong Kong, November 1–2, 2006.