Associate Professor Amy Bauer presented a paper entitled "The mysteries of of Selma, Alabama”: re-telling and remembrance in David Lang’s The Difficulty of Crossing a Field" at Perceptual Tensions, Sensory Resonance: Contemporary Opera and New Music Theatre, University of Toronto, June 8–9, 2012. She will present present a paper entitled "The Cosmopolitan Imagination in Ligeti’s Wëores Songs," at the 19th Quinquennial Conference of the International Musicological Society (Rome, July 2012).