Sonic Skills Public Day

On 17-18 January 2014 a group of Sound Studies experts will come together at Maastricht University to comment on the Sonic Skills project, a project that studies sound and listening as portals to knowledge in twentieth-century science, engineering and medicine. The Sonic Skills project team includes Karin Bijsterveld, Joeri Bruyninckx, Melissa Van Drie, Anna Harris, Stefan Krebs and Alexandra Supper, most of whom are affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University.


The meeting will start with a Public Day on Friday 17 January, during which several of the experts will present their own research on cultures of sound and listening, past and present, in short presentations in accessible English.

Aleks Kolkowski (London), Julia Kursell (University of Amsterdam), Cyrus Mody (Rice University), Rachel Mundy (Pittsburgh University), Trevor Pinch (Cornell University), Tom Rice (Exeter University), Sophia Roosth (Harvard University) and Axel Volmar (Siegen University) will talk about the fascinating sonic features of museum collections, physiology labs, research reform, audio bird guides, circuit bending, prison life, underground infrasound and high-end audio. They will draw on Arts and Musicology, as well as on Science and Technology Studies, History of Science and Anthropology. The day will end with a short podcast on the Sonic Skills project, accompanied with slide show images.This day is open to anyone interested. A simple lunch will be served, and entrance is free. As the lecture room is a nineteenth century salon with a limited number of seats, registration is required. If you know already that you will only be able to attend either the morning programme or one of the two afternoon sessions, please inform Mrs Hollanders about this, so that we can accommodate as many participants as possible.

Groote Societeit, Vrijthof 36, 6211 LE, Maastricht

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