Listening to Tehran: Sonic Palimpsests and Affective Historical Imaginaries Through the more-than-sounds of sirens, bombs and other sonic experiences during the missile strikes on Tehran in the later stages of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) in Azar Nafisi’s 2003 book, Laudan Nooshin will investigate a profound entanglement of sound, affect, and memory, and the intense somatic […]

Sonic Identities in Early Modern Crete and Cyprus 1453-1700 Alexandros Maria Hatzikiriakos will present his new MSCA/UKRI project SONICC, that investigates the acoustic communities of Crete and Cyprus in the early modern period through the lens of intermedial and sonic methodologies. For more about the project, see: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FZ001153%2F1 Members will receive the Zoom link automatically. […]

Historical Perspectives on Medieval Sound(s) and Soundscapes How do historians concieve sound, think about it, and do sound research? What can other disciplines, namely musicology, learn from historians’ approach? These questions will be addressed through two project presentations by Hannah Potthoff and Julia Samp, who will present their dissertation projects considering medieval auditory perception, interpretation, […]