Category: Itinerary

Keynote, “What Is Comparative Media?” Columbia University.  Details TBA.

Short talk on “what I know about perception and media” followed by a conversation with artist Mika Tajima, moderated by Hua Hsu.

Keynote, “Sound Matters” conference.  Details TBA.

Annual History of Science Lecture: “Audile Scarification: Notes on the Normalization of Hearing Damage.” I’ll be around Cambridge for a week doing various things at Harvard and MSR.

“Sound in Theory, Sound in Practice” conference.

I will be a guest scholar at the Max Planck Institute as part of the “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics” working group led by Viktoria Tkaczyk.  I will also participate in the “Testing Hearing” working group.

In Paris for talks and press appearances to promote the publication of The Audible Past in French (they’re still working out the title as I type, but it’s got Histoire de la modernité sonore in there somewhere.  More details as they happen, but there will probably be a public talk on the 20th. MP3 is due to appear in 2016.

Presentation in the Communication Arts Department, probably on missile mail, and a seminar for students on sound studies.  Some cross-promotion with science and technology studies may happen. More news as I know it.

Keynote, Intertia: A Conference on Sound, Media and the Digital Humanities.

Material Imagination lecture series, details TBA.