The IMS Study Group Auditory History is an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholars at all career stages established to stimulate an exchange of current research on global auditory experiences and sonic environments of the past. To achieve that, the study group favors multisensorial approaches to discourse within sound studies and also encourages inclusion of historical, cultural, and acoustemological perspectives on aurality. It aims to facilitate critical discussion, theory-building, and long-term collaboration across disciplinary boundaries: anthropology, archaeology, architecture and art history, ecology, history, literature, musicology, sociology, philosophy. It focuses on aspects of the acoustic environment such as subjectivity, memory, sonic heritage, emotion and affect, spatial and social dimensions of sound, and history of auditory perception. Importantly, the study group is committed to cultural diversity and inclusivity.
The initiative for the study group was first born during the 21st Quinquennial IMS Congress in Athens in August 2022 in the aula of the Athens University School of Philosophy and realized throughout the following months. The study group strives to organize at least two meetings annually, regularly participate at conferences of various disciplines in form of themed panels, and to organize a symposium or conference in collaboration with one of the participant’s institutions at least once every two years.
The study group is open to scholars at all career stages, encouraging transgenerational exchange of ideas, working in any of the above-mentioned fields. If you wish to become a member, please email the chairs of the study group.
Chairs
Dr. des. Tin Cugelj (UK)
Salih Demirtaş (TR)
Steering Committee
Dr. Helen Coffey (UK)
Dr. Alexandros Hatzikiriakos (UK)
Dr. Tess Knighton (ES)
Dr. Linda Pearse (CA)
Dr. Esperanza Rodríguez García (ES)
Julia Samp (DE)
Study Group Members
Tamsin Alexander (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Antonio Arnieri (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Kate Arnold (Nottingham Trent University)
Niall Atkinson (University of Chicago)
Marta Battisti (Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance –University of Grenoble–Lyon)
Ido Ben-Ami (Tel Aviv University)
Karin T. Bijsterveld (Maastricht University)
Andrea F. Bohlman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Andrea Bombi (University of Valencia)
Diana Brenscheidt genannt Jost (University of Sonora, Mexico)
Anna Maria Busse Berger (University of California, Davis)
Alessandra Campana (Tufts University)
Eduardo Carrero Santamaria (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Chi Feng (Indiana University Bloomington)
Jen-yen Chen (National Taiwan University)
Joseph L. Clarke (University of Toronto)
Marcel Cobussen (Leiden University)
Helen Coffey (The Open University)
Gisela Coronado Schwindt (National University of Central Buenos Aires)
Catriona Cooper (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Tin Cugelj (University of Nottingham)
Ruth Davis (University of Cambridge)
James Deaville (Carleton University)
Phil Joevan de Mattos Caitano (Independent scholar)
Tül Demirbaş (Independent scholar)
Salih Demirtaş (Orient-Institut Istanbul)
Flora Dennis (University of Sussex)
Emma Dillon (King’s College London)
Nilgün Doğrusöz Dişiaçık (Istanbul Technical University)
Oliver Doyle (Royal Academy of Music)
Henry Drummond (KU Leuven)
Sergio Durante (University of Padova)
Zorana Đorđević (University of Barcelona – University of Belgrade)
Ferran Escriva-Llorca (International University of Valencia)
Dinko Fabris (University of Basilicata)
Iain Fenlon (University of Cambridge)
Alexander Fisher (University of British Columbia)
Hasan Baran Fırat (Independent scholar)
Martin Flašar (Masaryk University)
Jonathan Glixon (University of Kentucky)
Stefan Gasch (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)
Lydia Goehr (Columbia University)
Adela Goldbard (Rhode Island School of Design)
Sergi González González (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Ilaria Grippaudo (University of Palermo)
Iva Grlić Radman (Independent scholar)
Kinuyo Hashimoto (Soft Bach Society Japan – Equal System Institute)
Alexandros Hatzikiriakos (University of St Andrews)
Judith I. Haug (University of Oslo)
Ewa Hauptman-Fischer (University of Warsaw)
Annelise Hein (Boğaziçi University)
Helen Herbert (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)
Anne Holzmüller (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Kristin Hoefener (NOVA University Lisbon)
Jessica Holmes (University of Copenhagen)
Erika Supria Honisch (Stony Brook University)
David Howes (Concordia University)
Amanda Hsieh (Durham University)
Ralf M. Jäger (University of Münster)
Christine Jeanneret (University of Copenhagen)
Juan Ruiz Jiménez (Independent scholar)
James Kennaway (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg)
David Kennerley (Queen Mary University of London)
Tess Knighton (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Carolin Krahn (University of Kassel)
Karl Kügle (University of Oxford – Leiden University)
Sarah Lappin (Queen’s University Belfast)
Anne Leonard (Clark Art Institute)
Patricia Marion Lopez Abrera (University of the Philippines Diliman)
Nazan Maksudyan (Freie Universität Berlin, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut)
Cla Mathieu (University of Geneva)
Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita (University of Granada)
David Merlin (German Historical Institute in Rome)
Jan-Friedrich Missfelder (University of Basel)
Peter McMurray (University of Cambridge)
Eva Moreda Rodríguez (University of Glasgow)
Luisa Moscati (University of Macerata)
Emilie Murphy (University of York)
Katarzyna Naliwajek (University of Warsaw)
Elizabeth Natour (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Sara Navarro Lalanda (International University of La Rioja)
Laudan Nooshin (City, University of London)
John M. O’Connell (Cardiff University)
Jacob Olley (University of Cambridge)
Cristina Eleonora Pascu (Gheorghe Dima Music Academy)
Linda D. Pearse (Mount Allison University)
Jessica Piccinccini (University of Macerata)
Francesca Piccone (Roma Tre University)
Andy Popperwell (University of Greenwich)
Massimo Privitera (University of Palermo)
Ari Rabenu (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)
Nathan Reeves (Northwestern University)
Colleen Renihan (Queen’s University)
Cécile Reynaud (École Pratique des Hautes Études)
Esperanza Rodríguez García (Complutense University of Madrid)
Julia Samp (RWTH Aachen University)
Iván Sánchez Aravena (Independent scholar)
Imani Sanga (University of Dar es Salaam)
Chryssie Scarlatos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Margret Scharrer (University of Bern – RWTH Aachen University)
Katherine Butler Schofield (King’s College London)
Alexandra Siso (University of Sheffield)
Tim Shephard (University of Sheffield)
Mark M. Smith (University of South Carolina)
Yue Sun (Shanghai Conservatory of Music)
Zeynep Tarım (Istanbul University)
Benjamin Tausig (Stony Brook University)
Fernando Tavares (University of São Paulo)
Christian Thorau (University of Potsdam)
Lorenzo Tunesi (Stanford University)
Cristina Urchueguía (University of Bern)
Kate van Orden (Harvard University)
Luis Velasco-Pufleau (University of Bern)
Philippe Vendrix (Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours)
Melissa Vipperman-Cohen (California State University, Fullerton)
Renée Vulto (Utrecht University)
Yingfen Wang (National Taiwan University)
Tobias Christian Weißmann (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Maurice Anthony Windleburn (University of Hong Kong)
Rachel Willie (Liverpool John Moores University)
Bethan Winter (University of Oxford)
Mary E. Wolinski (Western Kentucky University)
Giovanni Zanovello (Indiana University Bloomington)
Veronika Zinchenko (Independent scholar)
Magdalena Zorn (Goethe University Frankfurt)