SEMSCHC Annual Conference - 2024 Program

65th Annual Meeting
of the
Society for Ethnomusicology
Southern California and Hawai’i Chapter
Pomona College
Claremont, CA

Saturday, March 2, 2024 


Conference Program [PDF]

 

Welcome Pack from Local Arrangements [PDF] (includes essential info and local maps)

 

2023 Business Meeting Minutes [PDF]

 

Audio-visual facilities 

What will be there:
Data projection, with audio, will be available in the presentation rooms.

What will not be there:
Rooms are not equipped with public computers; presenters should bring their own personal computers and hook
them into the system provided.
The audio-visual system accommodates most standard inputs, but presenters are advised to come prepared with
their own adaptors/dongles and/or power cables for their personal computers/devices. 
Stand-alone audio-players, such as CD-players, tape-players, and phonographs, will not be available. Please make
arrangements to play audio on personal devices. 


Wi-Fi on campus

Throughout the Pomona College campus, free Wi-Fi can be obtained without the need for a password. Select the
network called “Pomona-Guest.”


Parking and directions

The conference is located at “Thatcher Music Building, Pomona College” or 340 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA 91711.



The South Campus Parking Structure (295 E. First St.) provides ample and free lot-parking, at a distance of 8 minutes’ walk
/ 0.4 miles from the conference site. Drivers with disability placards may park in designated spaces in the small lot near
Sumner Hall (333 N. College Way).


Closer, street-parking can often be scouted on the calm streets that flank the western side of campus, including Campus
Ave., Harvard, Fourth St., and Bonita. 


Pomona College Visitor's Map 


Except where marked, street parking is free and unlimited. Note, however, that “overnight parking” (leaving a vehicle on the
street after 2am) is not permitted in the city of Claremont.


Detailed directions are below. These terminate at the campus parking structure at 295 E. First St., Claremont. After parking,
walk North on Columbia Ave., then turn left on Bonita Ave. After coming to College Ave., turn right and Thatcher Music
Building will soon appear on the right.


From the I-210 East: Exit Towne Avenue. Turn right onto Towne, traveling south until reaching Foothill Boulevard. Turn left
onto Foothill. Travel east on Foothill to Indian Hill Boulevard, turn right and proceed approximately one mile to E. 1st Street
and turn left. Take E. 1st Street to Columbia Avenue (it is the stop sign just past College Avenue) and turn left to enter the
parking structure on the right.


From I-10 headed East: Exit Indian Hill Boulevard. Turn left off the freeway onto Indian Hill Blvd. and drive north about one
mile to 1st Street. Turn right onto E. 1st Street. Take 1st Street to Columbia (it is the stop sign just past College Ave) and
turn left to enter the parking structure on the right.


From I-10 headed West: Exit Indian Hill Boulevard. Turn right off the freeway onto Indian Hill Blvd. and drive north about
one mile to 1st Street. Turn right onto E. 1st Street. Take 1st Street to Columbia (it is the stop sign just past College Ave)
and turn left to enter the parking structure on the right.


From I-210 headed West: Exit Baseline Avenue. Turn right onto Baseline Ave. Turn left onto Monte Vista. Turn right onto
Claremont Blvd. Take Claremont Blvd. to 1st Street (approx. 2 mi.) Turn right onto 1st Street. Take 1st Street to Columbia
(stop sign), and enter the parking structure on the right.

 

Lodging

*These listings are intended for general planning purposes only. Pomona College/SEMSCHC has not vetted these
accommodations. 

 

Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Claremont
555 W. Foothill Blvd., Claremont, CA 91711
(909) 626-2411


Sheraton Fairplex Hotel
601 W McKinley Ave., Pomona, CA 91768
(909) 622-2220


Motel 6 Claremont
840 S Indian Hill Blvd, Claremont, CA 91711
(909) 621-4831

 


Program Chair
Scott Spencer
University of Southern California
Email: scottspe@usc.edu


Local Arrangements Chair
Gibb Schreffler
Pomona College
Email: gibb.schreffler@pomona.edu