Friday 08 February 2019
10:00–10:10
Welcome
Janina Wurbs and Nikita Hock (University of Bern)
10:10–10:30
Keynote
Victor A. Stoichita (CNRS, Paris-Nanterre University): What Does It Mean and Imply When We Talk About Sound Having Agency?
10:30–10:40
Break
10:40–12:10
“Agency of Sound” in Language and Thought
Chair: Victor de Souza Soares (University of Bern)
Elżbieta Górska (University of Warsaw): A Case Study of Intermodal Translation: From Music to Language and Back
Tania Zittoun (University of Neuchâtel): Sound for Thought: A Sociocultural Psychological Exploration of Sonic Imagination
12:10-13:40
Lunch Break
13:40-15:10
“Agency of Sound” in and Through Texts
Chair: Jan-Friedrich Missfelder (University of Basel)
Ber Kotlerman (Bar-Ilan University): Sound Effects in Agnon’s Yiddish Story ‘Toytntants’
Julia Samp (RTWH Aachen University): Acoustic Interference as a Product of Social Construction. Based on the Example of the Correspondence of Willibald Pirckheimer (1470–1530)
15:10-15:30
Break
15:30–17:00
From “Agency of Sound” to its History
Chair: Christoph Dieckmann (University of Bern)
Holger Schulze (University of Copenhagen): The Nanopolitics of Sound: Sonic Agency in Everyday Listening Situations
Jan-Friedrich Missfelder (University of Basel): Distribution of the Audible. Conceptualizing Acoustic Agency in (Pre)modern History
Saturday 09 February 2019
09:00–10:30
“Agency of Sound” in Social Regimes
Chair: Tom Rice (University of Exeter)
Nicholas Bujalski (Cornell University): Bells and Cannons: Towards a History of Political Sound in Tsarist Russia
Pooja Satyogi (Ambedkar University Delhi): Sounding Law, Listening Regimes and Policing: Arbitrating ‘Domestic Cruelty’ in Special Protection Units, Delhi Police
10:30–10:45
Break
10:45–12:15
“Agency of Sound” at the Extremes
Chair: Christian Gerlach (University of Bern)
Ian Biddle (Newcastle University): The Modern Ear: New Regimes of Listening During the Second World War
Vannessa Hearman (Charles Darwin University): The Auditory Landscape of the 1965–66 Anti–Communist Repression in Indonesia and Sound–Based Projects to Reexamine the ‘1965’ Case
12:15–13:45
Lunch Break
13:45–15:15
Changing Contexts, Changing Environments
Chair: Daniel Marc Segesser (University of Bern)
Sławomir Wieczorek (University of Wrocław): Agency in the Sonic Past: Stalin’s Death 1953
Jarosław Jaworek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań): Sound Agency Between the Human and non-Human World
15:15–15:35
Break
15:35–16:15
Discussion: How to Do Things with Agency
Chair: Luis Velasco-Pufleau (University of Fribourg)
Short Input (Tom Rice)