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Dear list,
The Sound and Technology Working Group at the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (CHSTM) invites you to participate in a series of workshops starting in September 2021.
Each monthly session – to take place on Zoom – will feature a moderated discussion of a new or recently published work by a scholar working in the area of the history of sound and technology, broadly construed. Readings will be pre-circulated in advance of each session.
Researchers at all levels are invited, though we especially welcome graduate students and early-career researchers.
If you are interested in participating, please create an account at the CHSTM website (https://www.chstm.org/) and join the working group (https://www.chstm.org/content/sound-and-technology). You will then receive updates on the group's activities through this site.
A short description of the scope of the working group and a schedule for the first semester of meetings follows. This initiative builds on the activities of the TAXIS reading group (https://taxis.hcommons.org), whose members generously contributed to its conception and planning.
Please do not hesitate to contact the conveners if you have any questions or comments about the group. We look forward to your participation!
Eamonn Bell <eabell@tcd.ie>
Brian Miller <millerba42@gmail.com>
Ezra Teboul <ezra@redthunderaudio.com>
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Meeting Schedule
(EDT = Eastern Daylight Time; EST = Eastern Standard Time)
Friday, September 10, 2021 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EDT
Guest: Dr. Deirdre Loughridge (Northeastern University)
Friday, October 8, 2021 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EDT
No meeting (4S)
Friday, November 12, 2021 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EST
Guest: Dr. David Suisman (University of Delaware)
Friday, December 10, 2021 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EST
Guest: Dr. Viktoria Tkaczyk (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Friday, January 14, 2022 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EST
TBA (topical readings and/or guest)
Friday, February 11, 2022 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EST
Guest: Dr. Alexandra Hui (Mississippi State University)
Friday, March 11, 2022 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EST
TBA (topical readings and/or guest)
Friday, April 8, 2022 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EDT
Guest: Dr. Peter Sachs Collopy (California Institute of Technology)
Friday, May 13, 2022 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EDT
Guest: Dr. Mara Mills (New York University)
Group summary
The Sound and Technology working group is concerned with scholarship coming from the history of technology and science, towards a history of sonic technocultures. This group welcomes scholars interested in sound and sound technology from all time periods, though the group's reading and writing will focus on cases, debates, and actors that engage the conditions of sound's technological reproducibility since the late 19th century. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the topic, relevant studies have been fragmented across a variety of fields within the humanities, arts, social sciences, engineering, acoustics, and the sciences. This working group will work across these disciplines to collectively interpret sources and commentary that share an interest in sound.
