Spring 2018 Events

All meetings are from 1-3pm in 107 Stoeckel Hall (on the corner of College and Wall). All readings are available at our website: campuspress-test.yale.edu/soundstudies

February 28: Modernity’s Ear

Chapters from Roshanak Kheshti’s Modernity’s Ear. Session leader: Brian Kane (Music).

Nota bene: Prof. Kheshti will be presenting a public lecture, “We See with the Skin: Zora Neale Hurston’s Synesthetic Hermeneutics,” on Thursday, March 1, in WLH 309. This event is sponsored by the Black Sound and the Archive Working Group.

March 28 and April 25: In the Break

Two sessions dedicated to a close reading of Fred Moten’s seminal book, In the Break. 

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Fall 2017 Events

October 25: Sonic Thought

Essays from a recent issue of Parallax, on the theme of sonic thought.

November 15: Sound and Race

Chapters from Jennifer Lynn Stoever’s The Sonic Color Line. Session leader: Brian Kane (Music)

December 6: Improvisation 

Readings from the Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies (ed. George Lewis and Ben Piekut). Session  leader: Kerry O’Brien (Music).