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All of our Series* and Forums** are indexed alphabetically here!

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100 Years of Lomax (April/May 2015, Guest Edited by Tanya Clement)  Observing Alan’s centennial.

 

 

Amplifying Du Bois at 150 (Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever): Inspired by the recent Black Perspectives “W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150” Online Forum, SO!’s “W.E.B. Du Bois at 150” amplifies the commemoration of the occasion of the 150^th anniversary of Du Bois’s birth in 2018 by examining his all-too-often and all-too-long unacknowledged role in developing, furthering, challenging, and shaping what we now know as “sound studies.”

 

 

Acts of Sonic Intervention (April 2015, Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever): What is the relationship between research, theory and public practice? #soundstudiesforchange

 

 

The Braids, The Bars, and The Blackness (Fall 2024, Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever): A Conversation by Todd Craig and LeBrandon Smith about the Kendrick Lamar v. Drake rap  beef!

 

 

Bro-Casting Trump (2026, Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever): Andrew Salvati gives us the inside info about the sounds of the Manosphere.

 

 

Chicana Soundscapes (Fall 2017, Guest Edited by Michelle Habell-Pallan): Feminista Music Scholarship is what the participants of this forum are doing (among their many important interventions)!

 

 

 Conference Roundups (Ongoing Annually): Previews and Listings for new research on sound

 

 

Deafness and Sound Studies (February 2012, Edited by Liana Silva): Exploring ableism, audism, and the intersections and irruptions between deafness and sound studies.

 

 

DH and Listening (July 2016, Edited by Liana Silva): We at Sounding Out! are stoked to hear about (and listen to) all the new projects out there that archive sound, but we wonder whether the digital humanities engage enough with the the notion of listening.

 

 

From Mercury to Mars (September/October 2013, Edited by Neil Verma in concert with Antenna): Invasion of #WOTW75

 

 

Gendered Soundscapes of India (Fall 2017, guest edited by Praseeda Gopinath and Monika Mehta): This forum, Gendered Soundscapes of India, offers snapshots of sound at sites of trans/national production, marketing, filmic and musical texts.

 

 

Gendered Voices (February 2015, Edited by Liana Silva): Do voices express gender?  How?                                                                                                                       .

 

 

The Grain of the Audiobook (Winter 2020, edited by Liana Silva): Audiobooks have a stealthy way of rendering invisible the labor of creating this aural experience…here at Sounding Out! we want to render that labor visible and, moreover, think of the sound as a focus of analysis in itself.

 

 

Hate & Non-Human Listening (Spring 2026, Guest Edited by Katherine Agnes Huether): The essays collected in this series trace how nonhuman listening operates through sound, speech, and platformed media across distinct but interconnected domains.

 

 

Hearing the UnHeard (October 2014, Guest Edited by Seth Horowitz): Blinding you. . .with science. .

 

 

haitian radio // radyo ayisyen (Summer 2021, Guest Edited by Alejandra Bronfman): Radio is different. Not pivotal, but witnessing the pivotal.

 

 

Hysterical Sound (December 2015, Guest Edited by Karly-Lynne Scott): AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! OOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!! HEE HEE HEE!  Who you calling crazy??

 

 

Latinx Soundwave (Fall 2023 and Fall 2024, Edited by Dolores Inés Casillas): This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@.  Xi-can-x.

 

 

Live from the SHC (Spring 2012, Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever): A series featuring new research by the 2011-2012 Fellows during the sound-themed year at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell.

 

 

Medieval Sound (April 2016, Guest Edited by Dorothy Kim and Christopher Roman): HEAR YE! HEAR YE!

 

 

Mingus Ah Um at 60 (Fall, 2019) Guest Edited by Earl Brooks): This series re/hears, re/sounds and re/mixes the contributions of Mingus for his ingenious approach to jazz performance and composition as well as his far-reaching theorizations of sound in relation to liberation and social equality, all in honor of the 60th anniversary of Mingus’s sublimely idiosyncratic album Mingus Ah Um.

 

 

Next Gen Sound Studies (Fall 2019, Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever): Undergraduate-a-palloza!

 

 

 

No Pare, Sigue Sigue: Spanish Rap and Sound Studies (WInter 2017, Edited by Liana Silva): What Spanish rap has to say on the dance floor, in our cars, and through our headsets.

 

 

 

Punk Sound (Spring 2017, Co-edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever and Aaron Trammell): In this series, we invite you to amplify varied historicized “details” of punk sound–its chunk-chunk-chunk skapunk riffs, screams, growls, group chants, driving rhythms, honking saxophones–hearing/feeling/touching these sounds in richly varied locations, times, places, and perspectives

 

 

Racial Bias in Speech AI: (Summer 2023, Guest Edited by Johann Diedrick and Co-Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever): Speech AI systems operate from a very limiting set of assumptions about the human voice– are we training it, or is it actually training us?

 

 

Radio de Accíon (November 2014, Guest Edited by Tom McEnaney): Latin American and Carribbean radio histories and current waves.

 

 

Radio Art Reflections (November 2014, Guest Edited by Magz Hall): An international conversation about the state and politics of radio art.

 

 

Round Circle of Resonance (December 2014, Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever, curated by LMGM a.k.a. Luis-Manuel Garcia) A month of sound art from arts collective La Mission in honor of José Esteban Muñoz and his influence on sound and listening. Rest in Power (August 9, 1967- December, 4, 2013).

 

Sculpting the Film Soundtrack (August 2014, Guest Edited by Katherine Spring): Filmmakers blurring the boundaries between sound and effect.

 

 

SO! Amplifies (Ongoing): Cool stuff by cooler people. Now you know.

 

 

SO! Podcast (Ongoing, Monthly, Edited by Aaron Trammell): A panopoly of art, documentary, interviews, lectures, artist’s talks, and more!

 

 

Sonic Beyoncé (September 2014, Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever): the #flawless sonic universe of Queen Bey, plus bonus hair choreo.

 

 

Sonic Borders (February 2013, Co-Edited by Liana Silva, Jennifer Lynn Stoever, and Justin Burton): A mega-collabo with IASPM-US!

 

 

Sonic Shadows (July/August 2015, Guest Editor Julie Beth Napolin): The human voice at its outer limits.

 

 

Sound, Ability, and Emergence (Summer 2017, Guest Editor Airek Beauchamp and Co-Editor Jennifer Lynn Stoever):  The essays in this series all aim to push what we know a bit, to question our own knowledges and see where we might be headed.

 

 

Sound and Affect (September/October 2015, Guest Editor Airek Beauchamp): We get in our feels.

 

 

Sound and Pedagogy (April 2013, September 2012, and ongoing, Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever): Teaching sound, teaching with sound, teaching through sound. Listen.

 

 

Sound and Play (October 2013, Edited by Aaron Trammell): playing with and through sound is serious business.

 

 

Sound and Pleasure (Summer 2014, Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever): Things that make you go Mmmmmmmm.                                                                                                                                             .

 

 

Sound and Sport (Summer 2013, Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever):   sound and the complex relationship sport draws between “pain” and “gain.”                                                                               .

 

 

Sound and Surveillance (October 2014, Edited by Aaron Trammell): Overhearing? Eavesdropping? Brave New World?                                                                   . 

 

 

Sound and Technology Forum (April 2014, Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever): bleep bleep blup bleep.                                                                                                                                                                .

 

 

Sound, Improvisation and New Media Art  (December 2015, Guest Edited by Skot Deeming and Martin Zeilinger).  This series explores the nature of improvisation and its relationship to appropriative play cultures within new media art and contemporary sound practice.

 

 

Sound in the Nineteenth Century (December 2013, Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever): Because the past is not yet past.                                                                                                                                 .

 

 

Sound Off!  //  Comment Klatsch (2013-2014): Real time comment conversations. A thing we tried.                                                                                                       .

 

 

Sounding Out! Reads (Ongoing, Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever): Book Reviews SO! style.                                                                                                                                                                                      .

 

 

Sounds of the City (February 2014, Edited by Liana Silva): That special relationship between sound, sound studies, and urban space.

 

 

Soundwalking While POC (Summer/Fall 2019, Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever): What would a decolonial/decolonizing soundwalk praxis look and sound like?

 

 

Start a Band Forum (May 2014, Edited by Neil Verma): This is your body on Lou Reed.                                                                                                                               .

 

 

Tune In to the Past (Summer 2012, Edited by Neil Verma): Listening to radio innovator Norman Corwin with new ears after his death at 101.

 

 

Unsettling the World Soundscape Project (August/September 2015, Guest Edited by Randolph Jordan): Just when you thought you knew your Westerkamp, Schaffer, and Truax. BOOM! Think again. Rewind and reconsider.

 

 

The Wobble Continuum (January 2014, Guest Edited by Juston Burton): All things Dub Step.                                                                                                                  .

 

 

World Listening Month (Annually in July): Observing World Listening Day on July 18th with posts, analyses, and experiences.

 

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*Series: ongoing and/or stretching over a few months

**Forum: a concentrated month-long conversation