Symposium: Listening Futures
Monday 7 December, 2009
University of Sydney
Rationale
This symposium builds on the previous workshops over the two years of the
Listening project and grounds research questions in the productive
intersection of listening and individual research agendas of participants. The
workshop brings together CRN members and other researchers working in
this area, as well as providing a forum for locally-based collaboration with
researchers from the Sarai project (funded through a previous CRN
application by Lloyd through the Cultural Literacies node).
The symposium will enhance the focus of previous workshops by articulating
ongoing research projects on cultural work across Australian institutions, as
well as contributing an international research dialogue. Ghosh’s research on
call centre workers in Bangalore will be a starting point for discussions of new
skills and capacities invoked by forms of transnational work, as well as the
question of to what extent the broadcast audience is entwined in mediated
listening through social media projects such as the ABC’s Pool Project.
The symposium seeks to develop cross-cultural and inter-institutional
interrogations of listening. The meeting will bring together researchers and
media artists, academics and activists, community arts workers and
theoreticians.
Structure
A full day meeting.
The symposium will include an invited paper from an international guest
speaker and will provide an important opportunity for the many participants in
The Listening Project to showcase their work through formal papers.
Participants will be asked to prepare and circulate papers beforehand a
sample of work-in-progress for discussion and response by participants.
Workshop aims
Workshop outcomes
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