Periods and Waves: A Conference on Sound and History

 

29-30 avril 2016, Stony Brook (NY)

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Deadline for submissions: December 31, 2015
https://you.stonybrook.edu/periodsandwaves/

Call for Papers

Sound, like history, describes a dynamic terrain. Scholars concerned with the convergence of sound and history have, in the wake of the “sensory turn” in the humanities, worked to generate clear narratives from data that resists fixity, that seems to be in constant motion. The shared aims of sound studies and history have yielded a rich body of scholarship that interrogates, for example, the noisy illuminations of medieval songbooks, acoustic control in modern architecture, sound and the moving image, and accounts of deafness and synaesthesia. The practice of thinking sound historically and history sonically is driving the growth of fresh methodologies and compelling new interpretations of sources.

Periods and Waves: A Conference on Sound and History is co-organized by the Department of Music, Department of Philosophy, and School of Health Technology & Management at Stony Brook University. We welcome submissions for 30-minute presentations that investigate past aural cultures from scholars in musicology, ethnomusicology, history, anthropology, medical history, philosophy, religion, disability studies, and sound studies.

Plenary Speakers : Emma Dillon (Professor of Music, King's College London), Stefan Helmreich (Professor of Anthropology, MIT), Alexander Rehding (Professor of Music, Harvard University), Emily Thompson (Professor of History, Princeton University)

Please send abstracts of 250-300 words to PeriodsandWaves -at- stonybrook.edu

The deadline for abstracts is December 31, 2015. In your email, attach a separate document stating your name, institutional affiliation and position, if any, and audiovisual requirements. Please direct questions to Erika Honisch (erika.honisch -at- stonybrook.edu) or Benjamin Tausig (benjamin.tausig -at- stonybrook.edu).