5th Annual In/Between Conference
February 27, 2014
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
The Soundscapes of Culture
The School will host its 5th annual in-house, interdisciplinary conference on February 27th and 28th.
For more information, and for the full conference program visit inbetween.uic.edu
Against the backdrop of today’s scopocentrism fueled by the omnipresent screens of visual media, sound is beginning to reclaim scholarly attention in literary and cultural studies. Part of this conference will be dedicated to examining the role of listening practices and acoustic ecologies in our reception and interpretation of speech, music, and noise. We are interested in sound as a medium of communication, and as an instrument in fashioning and preserving cultural communities. Topics that speak to our interest in exploring the relationship between sound and culture include: silent films, soundtracks, dubbing; oral dialects and code-switching in conversation; mnemonics and tongue twisters in language learning; lyrical voice, poetic rhyme schemes, and declamations of verse; discourse analysis, narratology, and story telling; realizing dramatic scripts on stage, audience reception of musical compositions, and acoustics; oral histories and oral literature; phonology and phonetics; recording technologies used in language learning; intertextual echoes and stylistic resonances; and connections between movements in music and literature.
Date posted
Jun 18, 2020
Date updated
Sep 25, 2020