Friday, October 14
10/14, 1:15 p.m.: Introduction
Timothy Murray, Director, Society for the Humanities
10/14, 1:30 p.m.: Listening in Motion
Jim Drobnick (Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory, OCAD University, Toronto), “Listening Awry"
Art Jones (Artist, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), “Motion Graf: Electronic Media as Public Art”
10/14, 3:00 p.m.: Audition from the Middle East
Ziad Fahmy (Fellow, Society for the Humanities; Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell), “Listening to Egypt: Vaudeville and Sound Media during the First World War”
Jeanette Jouili (Fellow, Society for the Humanities), "Connecting ethical audition with ethical spectatorship: Islamic performing arts and its publics"
10/14, 4:30 p.m.: Plenary Lecture (Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall)
Emily Thompson (Senior Invited Fellow, Society for the Humanities; Professor of History, Princeton University), "Sound and Fury: Projecting Change in the American Film Industry, 1926-1933"
[note: this presentation will not be streaming]
Saturday, October 15
10/15, 9:30 a.m.: African-American Performance
Caitlin Marshall (Doctoral Candidate, Performance Studies, UC, Berkeley), "Power in the Tongue"
Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman (Fellow, Society for the Humanities; Assistant Professor of English, Binghamton University), "Reconstructing Music: Race, Listening, and the Jubilee Singers"
10/15, 11:00 a.m.: Sonic Practice
Sara Drury (Associate Professor of Film and Media Arts, Temple University), "Unsound Practices: Variations on Themes of Sensing, Sending, Inscribing"
Nina Sun Eidsheim (Fellow, Society for the Humanities; Assistant Professor of Musicology, UCLA), "Considering Sonic Site Specificity"
[note: this presentation will not be streaming]
10/15, 12:15 p.m.: Interactive Lunch
Eliot Bates (Music, Cornell), "Ithaca Soundscape Project"
Renate Ferro (Art, Cornell), "Suspicious Packages"
CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA, "NetNoise"
10/15, 2:00 p.m.: Plenary Artist Presentation
Keith Obadike (Assistant Professor of Integrated Media Art and Sound Design, William Paterson University) and Mendi Obadike (Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Pratt Institute), “African Metropole / Sonic City”
10/15, 3:30 p.m.: Soundscapes
Helen Thorington (Artist, Co-Director of New Radio and Performing Arts), “Thoughts on Acoustic Space and Contemporary Practice”
Jonathan Skinner (Fellow, Society for the Humanities; Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Bates College), “Ecopoetics: Poetry and the Soundscape”
10/15, 5:00 p.m.: Concluding Panel: Resounding Cultures
Marcus Boon (Fellow, Society for the Humanities; Associate Professorof English, York University)
Eric Lott, Fellow (Society for the Humanities; Professor of English, University of Virginia)
Tom McEnaney (Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Cornell)
10/15, 9:00 p.m.: TechnoBeat Sound Performance
Art Jones (Artist, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) with Erin Ferro-Murray
