reading group
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Reading Group: Reading Mariana J. López’s Sonic Pasts
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…
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Reading Group: Reading Sound, Reading (with) the Historical Ear
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: https://forms.gle/rofj6Te8PPiF4yDbA Chair: Alexandros Maria Hatzikiriakos (Sheffield) Discussants: TBA Key reading: TBA
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Reading Group: Reading Sound and Literature
Despite its fundamental role as a historical source, literature is rarely discussed within cultural sound studies. This autumn’s reading-group session will focus on recent contributions that explore the relationship between the written and auditory worlds. The discussion will open a broader conversation about how to write about sound and how sonic experience shapes literary creation.…
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Reading Group: Sounds of War
Reading Sounds of War The reading group session will focus on the sounds of war, liminality, and transcultural communities formed during periods of conflict. Drawing on a curated selection of recent contributions by multiple authors, we will explore the many facets of listening, hearing, and the multisensorial perception of war sounds, including music and sonic communication.…