CfP: Emerging Voices of Sound Studies in East Asia

Emerging Voices of Sound Studies in East Asia
In-person & virtual conference – New York University Shanghai
June 22, 2024

Abstract deadline: April 15, 2024

In the past two decades, we have witnessed burgeoning interdisciplinary inquiries into the materiality, intermediality, and historicity of sound in cultural and historical studies, where the meanings of sound have greatly multiplied and concretized to become technological apparatuses, sensorial experiences, and multimedial aesthetics.

In this emerging field of sound studies, which organizes disciplines ranging from ethnomusicology and performance studies to history and environmental humanities, scholars examine the ephemeral and yet multifaceted meanings of sound. While the existing scholarship of sound studies is largely founded on Western experiences, we propose, as scholars of East Asian Studies, that the historical experiences of East Asia and its intra-regional connections can greatly enrich the scope, subjects, and theoretical resources of sound studies.

We hereby invite scholars from multiple disciplines who are doing research on sound studies in the context of East Asia. This one-day hybrid conference will take place on June 8, 2024. This conference was supported in whole by the NYU Shanghai Conference Fund.

Papers may explore topics related to sound in East Asian contexts, including any of the following areas but not limited to them:

• Music; cinema; performance
• Technology; infrastructure; digital interfaces
• Orality; aurality
• Movement; diaspora; displacement
• Practices and ethics of listening
• Soundscape; environment; ambience
• Empire; decoloniality; indigeneity; hybridity
• Theories and methodologies of sound studies

Please email a 250-word abstract to sound.nyush@gmail.com
Deadline for abstract: April 15, 2024
Date of notification of acceptance: April 30, 2024

Contact Information
Hye Eun Choi (Humanities & World Languages, NYU Shanghai)
Yucong Hao (Global China Studies, NYU Shanghai)

Contact Email
sound.nyush@gmail.com