We were sorry to learn of the passing of Bruce Smith in June 2024. Bruce’s Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the ‘O’ Factor (1999) is a foundational text in sound and sensory studies, drawing attention to the phenomenology of sound and how it played a crucial role in understanding ways in which …
Speakers ¶ Jenni Hyde (Lancaster University) ¶ Jan-Friedrich Mißfelder (University of Basel) ¶ Una McIlvenna (Australian National University) ¶ Rachel Willie (Liverpool John Moores University, Chair) Some of the earliest forms of news dissemination occurred in ballads. Lacking a teleological relationship with newsbooks, these forms of news production created spaces for engagement with …
The next Soundscapes in the Early Modern World Research Seminar will be on Monday 2nd October at 10.00am BST. Matthew Champion (Melbourne), will talk on ‘Ringing the Changes: Sound, Temporality, and Reformations Chair: Dolly MacKinnon (Queensland) All welcome!
The next Soundscapes in the Early Modern World Research Seminar will be on Tuesday 13th June at 4.00pm BST. Diane Oliva (Michigan), will talk on ‘Seismic Affects: Sensing Earthquakes in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World’ Chair: Sarah Koval (Harvard) All welcome!
Wednesday 27 April 2022, 17.30BST Virtually everyone knows what race looks like. But what does race sound like? And what does race sound like in Shakespearean drama, on the page or on the stage? During this talk, Dr David Sterling Brown will discuss, in relationship to Shakespeare’s dramatic literature, the “sonic colour line” and …
David Sterling Brown: Do You Hear What I Hear? Shakespeare, Race and the “Listening Ear” Read More »
‘The Sonic Renaissance: Bodily Experience and Spatial History’ Soundscapes in the early modern world research seminar, 3 March 2022 Speaker: Niall Atkinson (University of Chicago) Chair: Rachel Willie (LJMU)
Over the last few years, the soundscapes network has been working with Speke Hall, a National Trust property on the outskirts of Liverpool that was built by the Catholic Norris family in the sixteenth century. The acoustic space of the building connects to the Norris family’s faith: you can read my previous post about the …
Roundtable discussion given at the Soundscapes in the Early Modern World conference, 5-9 July 2021. Speakers: Nandini Das Sarah Dustagheer Katherine Butler Schofield Jennifer Lynn Stoever Wayne Weaver
Tess Knighton (ICREA-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), ‘How processions moved: emotional discourses in civic ceremony in early modern Europe’. Chair: Rachel Willie (LJMU) Feature image: ‘Saint Agnes’ (one of a pair) mid-16th century, possibly by Diego de Tiedrac
Following on from our first workshop meeting in Vancouver in March, in September, we collaborated with the research team at Wellcome Collection to explore sound in the archives from a global, theoretical and historical perspective. Wellcome houses an exceptional collection of early modern rare books, manuscripts, prints and art works, and this gave us a …