What are early career auditory historians working on? This session will feature the five early career scholars and their research: Cassiopée Guillet (Paris) on the representation of hearing in sixteenth-century Netherlandish painting; Sophie Reiland (Paris) on the methodological obstacles in auditory research of unconventional towns; Laura Thorn (Cambridge) on music, science, and female community in […]
This session focuses on Mariana J. López’s Sonic Pasts: Acoustical Heritage and Historical Soundscapes and its approaches to both research and dissemination. In conversation with the author, we will explore how different disciplines study the sounds of the past and how those sounds are reconstructed, mediated, and made audible to contemporary listeners The ZOOM link […]
Tim Shephard (Sheffield) & Chenxi Xiao (Vancouver) The last colloquium of the term will focus on the authors’ new book, The Khan’s Pifferi: Reading about the Musics of Asia in Late Fifteenth-Century Italy (Open Book Publishers, 2026), The session will examine how knowledge about the musics of Asia was read, mediated, and interpreted, and what […]
