- About
- Convenors
- Programme 2020-21
- Past Programme
About
The ‘Auralities’ research network is concerned with investigating, debating and understanding practices of audition, broadly conceived. Our heading is necessarily in the plural: practices of audition are shaped by wider cultural practices that shift across different times and places; differences between ‘hearing’ and listening’ have preoccupied philosophers and scientists alike; and even definitions of sound itself presume a normalised baseline of human sound perception (traditionally cited as 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz), averaged across large populations. On an individual level, too, pluralities prevail, as audition is typically understood as a psychoacoustic process that involves two ears – ‘binaurality’ – in which sound, space and time become closely entangled. Our seminar will explore these plural facets of sound, hearing and listening by bringing together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines across the humanities, social and natural sciences.
In particular, we aim to extend the current domains of sound studies chronologically, geographically, biologically, and culturally, to question assumptions about shared norms of hearing/listening. We are thus especially interested, somewhat paradoxically, in what we might understand as a post-aural moment in sound studies, where literal audition or the presence of audible sound are no longer presumed as a necessary part of aurality.
To join our email list, please contact Mina Gorji
Administrative assistance: networks@crassh.cam.ac.uk
Convenors
Convenors
Mina Gorji (Senior Lecturer, Faculty of English)
Peter McMurray (Lecturer, Faculty of Music)
Bettina Varwig (Lecturer, Faculty of Music)
Christina Woolner (Research Associate/Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology)
Ross Cole (Research Fellow, Homerton College, Faculty of Music)
Previous Convenor
Andrea Grant (Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology) [2019-20]
Faculty Advisors
Prof Steven Connor (Grace 2 Professor of English, Faculty of English)
Prof Ian Cross (Professor of Music and Science, Faculty of Music)
Prof Deborah Howard (Professor Emerita of Architectural History, Dept of History of Art)
Programme 2020-21
All online events are scheduled at UK time. Please check time for individual events.
Easter Term 2021
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CANCELLED Roundtable: Urban Soundscapes Around the Mediterranean 5 May 2021 2:30pm - 4:30pm, ONLINE SESSION (UK Time) |
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Roundtable: The History and Future of Auscultation 19 May 2021 2:30pm - 4:00pm, ONLINE SESSION (UK Time) Anurag Agarwal (Cambridge), Melissa Van Drie (Independent Researcher), David Trippett (Cambridge) |
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Roundtable: Decolonising Music Studies 2 Jun 2021 2:30pm - 4:30pm, ONLINE SESSION (UK Time) Alexander Douglas (Cambridge), Dlijeet Kaur Bhachu (Royal Northern College of Music), Shrz Ee Tan (London), Ken Ueno (California), |
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Final Session: Listening Together 16 Jun 2021 2:30pm - 4:00pm, Jesus Green, Cambridge |
Lent Term 2021
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Decolonising Sound Archives? A Roundtable 27 Jan 2021 14:30 - 16:30, Online Aaron Fox (Columbia), Noel Lobley (Virginia), Sylvia Antonia Nannyonga-Tamusuza (Makerere), Vik Sohonie (Ostinato Records) |
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Black Knowledge, Sound and Technology 10 Feb 2021 2:30pm - 4:30pm, ONLINE SESSION (UK Time) Julian Henriques (Goldsmiths), Marie Thompson (Open University), Virtual music Conscious Way Outernational (Guadeloupe) |
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Deafness and Religion: A Roundtable 24 Feb 2021 2:30pm - 4:30pm, ONLINE SESSION (UK Time) Irfan Yusuf (London), Stephen Papillon (Jewish Deaf Association), Hannah Lewis (Liverpool Diocese), Ros Hunt (Anglia Ruskin University)
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Rancière and Sound 10 Mar 2021 2:30pm - 4:30pm, ONLINE SESSION (UK Time) Jenifer Chao (De Montfort University), Katharina Clausius (Université de Montréal), Jairo Moreno (University of Pennsylvania) |
Michaelmas Term 2020
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POSTPONED: Sound and Race 14 Oct 2020 2:30pm - 4:30pm, ONLINE SESSION (UK Time) Julian Henriques (Goldsmiths), Marie Thompson (Open University) |
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Histories of Sacred Listening: Roundtable 28 Oct 2020 2:30pm - 4:30pm, ONLINE SESSION (UK Time) Jeremy Begbie (Cambridge/Duke), Rosamund Oates (Manchester Metropolitan), William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin), Richard Williams (SOAS) |
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Poetics of Place and Displacement: Poetry Reading and Discussion 11 Nov 2020 14:30 - 16:30, Online Vahni Capildeo (Trinidadian British poet), Xasan Daahir “Weedhsame” (Somali poet), Martin Orwin (Linguist and Translator, Naples) |
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Sound Art: A Conversation 25 Nov 2020 2:30pm - 4:30pm, ONLINE SESSION (UK Time) Aura Satz (London-based artist) |
Past Programme
Programme 2019-20
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Technologies of Listening: Roundtable 16 Oct 2019 2:00pm - 4:00pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT Michael Bull (Sussex), Melissa Dickson (Birmingham), Salomé Voegelin (Arts London) |
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Sounding Objects: A Conversation about Foley 30 Oct 2019 2:00pm - 3:30pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT Rebecca Glover (Foley/sound artist, London), Emilija Talijan (Oxford) |
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Poetry and Listening: Poetry Reading and Workshop 13 Nov 2019 2:00pm - 3:30pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT Sasha Dugdale (Poet and Translator), Faith Lawrence (Poet and Producer, Radio 3, ‘The Verb’), Angela Leighton (Poet and Critic, Cambridge) |
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CANCELLED Histories of Sacred Listening: Roundtable 27 Nov 2019 2:00pm - 3:30pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT Jeremy Begbie (Cambrigde/Duke), Rosamund Oates (Manchester Metropolitan), William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin), Richard Williams (SOAS) |
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Avian Listening 22 Jan 2020 2:00pm - 3:30pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT Reading Group |
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Roundtable: Music and Memory in East Africa 5 Feb 2020 2:00pm - 4:00pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT Andrea Grant (Cambridge), Kenedid Hassan (CFSS), David Mwambari (KCL), Christina Woolner (Cambridge) |
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Sound Art: A Conversation 19 Feb 2020 2:00pm - 4:00pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
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CANCELLED: Roundtable: Deafness and Religion 4 Mar 2020 2:00pm - 4:00pm, KC Shasha Conference Suite, Woolf Institute, Westminster College, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0UB Jointly sponsored by The Woolf Institute and CRASSH |
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CANCELLED: Listening Session: Audio Ethnography 29 Apr 2020 2:00pm - 3:30pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT Peter McMurray (Cambridge) |
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CANCELLED. Roundtable: Histories of Sacred Listening 13 May 2020 2:00am - 4:00am, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT Jeremy Begbie (Cambrigde/Duke), Rosamund Oates (Manchester Metropolitan), William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin), Richard Williams (SOAS) |
