IMS Study Group “Auditory History”

March 2026
Inaugural Conference: “The Historical Ear: What is Auditory History?”

Featured March 18 – March 21

The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center 41 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris, France

The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center, Paris, France For all details, visit the conference webpage: https://auditoryhistory.musicology.org/conference/
April 2026
Colloquium: Jin Qiu (Melbourne)

April 2 @ 09:00 – 10:00

Online

How We Used to Endure Noise: The Emergence of Auditory Order in Modern China In this colloquium, Jin Qiu will use Lao She’s 1930s short story Sound Film and other […]
May 2026
Reading Group: Reading Sound, Reading (with) the Historical Ear

May 18 @ 16:00 – 18:00

Online

This reading group is a companion space to the March conference, oﬀering additonal time to return to think about, and discuss the fundamental texts of auditory history. Registration is required: […]
June 2026
Panel: Subcontinental Sonorities

June 16 @ 18:00 – 20:00

Online

Because of time zone issues, the time of this event might change. We will inform about this change in time. Subcontinental Sonorities: Modernity, Forms of Archives, and the Politics of […]