Sound/Text

SOUND/TEXT SPEAKER: Mara Mills, NYU In 2012, Michele Friedner and Stefan Helmreich published “Sound Studies Meets Deaf Studies,” a manifesto hailing deaf sonic expertise and anti-audist philosophies of sound. 2012 also marked the opening of two landmark...

SOUND/TEXT SPEAKER: Charles Eppley, Arizona State University This presentation discusses the history of accessibility in U.S. museum and gallery curating prior to the creation of the 1990 Americans with Disability Act (ADA). It focuses on the story of the...

SOUND/TEXT is this stutter a black chant offered by the waterside In this improvisational lecture-performance, composer and poet JJJJJerome Ellis will share some of his ongoing research on intersections between music, stuttering, race, and nature. Using...

SOUND/TEXT SPEAKER: Dylan Robinson, Queen’s University This presentation considers human and non-human encounters with sound art works located in outdoor public spaces. Specifically, I address the ways in which public artworks interpellate the public as...

SOUND/TEXT SPEAKER: Margret Grebowicz, University of Silesia (Poland) We are leaning on dogs more heavily than ever in history for the emotional labor of sustaining an unsustainable world. But exactly what it is we are trying to “get” out of dogs is less...

SOUND/TEXT ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION SPEAKERS: Rachel Mundy (Rutgers University), Cana F. McGhee (Harvard University), and Ellie Irons (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) The ongoing climate crisis has produced endless streams of announcements about changes in...

SOUND/TEXT SPEAKER: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, ARTIST A writer, vocalist and performance/sound artist, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of TwERK (Belladonna, 2013). Diggs has presented and performed at California Institute of the Arts, El Museo del...

SOUND/TEXT ARTISTS: Naomi Woo (Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra) and Sophie Seita (Boston University) Naomi Woo a pianist, conductor, and researcher, currently working as assistant conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and lecturing at the University of...

SOUND/TEXT SPEAKER: ALY W. COREY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Aly W. Corey is a contingent faculty member at Harvard University (History & Literature) and UMass Boston (American Studies). They received their Ph.D. in English from the University of Colorado Boulder...