[KS] Call for Papers – Sonic Histories of East Asia.

[Barbara Wall]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I'm happy to share the CFP for a fascinating workshop at Ca Foscari,
University of Venice, May 15-17, 2025.

Over the past decade, sonic approaches to East Asia have attracted scholars
from across fields of history, literature, cultural studies,
ethnomusicology, and environmental humanities. This sonic turn, drawing on
the ecumenical canon of Sound Studies, has added voice, tone, timbre, and
even silence to existing narratives and frameworks of nation, empire,
society, technology, revolution, race, and gender. At its best, work has
gone further to not only foreground sound and hearing as a key aspect of
experience and history, but to challenge or refine existing understandings,
frameworks, and narratives. Importantly, this turn has also provided a set
of shared topics and terms by which scholars of different regions and
periods can meet, share, work, and explore common themes.

It is in this spirit that a two-day workshop will be held at Ca’ Foscari
University of Venice, from May 15-17, 2025. The workshop will focus on two
potential directions for the field:

First, on the possibility for sonic approaches to contribute to or
challenge existing paradigms, temporalities, or national boundaries of East
Asian history.

Second, we are particularly interested in work that explores and deploys
endogenous understandings and language to engage with the sonic world and
that can contribute to a field of Sound Studies that remainsdominated by
theories drawn from Western experience.

We invite scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum to submit paper
proposals that engage with the sonic and touch on any of the following
themes:

- Subjectivity and agency

- Social movements

- Practices and phenomenology of listening

- Gender

- Class and race

- Communication, Media, Sonic Infrastructure

- Technology

- Propaganda

- Popular culture

- Literature

- Language

- Historiography, theory, and sound

Funding provided by the European Commission through the Marie
Skłodowska-Curie Actions will provide accommodation for three nights in
Venice. Additional funding will be made available on a competitive basis
for up to two PhD or Postdoctoral researchers for travel to and from Venice.

Submission Guidelines

Those interested in participating should send an abstract of up to 300
words to the organizers, Dayton Lekner and Laura De Giorgi, to
eastasiansound at gmail.com by November 1, 2024.

All the best,
Barbara

*Barbara Wall *
Associate Professor Korean Studies
University of Copenhagen

Mail: barbara.wall at hum.ku.dk

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Author of The Dynamic Essence of Transmedia Storytelling: A Graphical
Approach to The Journey to the West in Korea (NOW OPEN ACCESS)
<https://brill.com/display/title/69626?language=en>


PI, research project TEMPTING TUNES: Interfaces of Sound and Narrative in
Korean Culture <https://ccrs.ku.dk/research/asia/tempting-tunes/>
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