Programme
Registration will take place in the reception area of the John Lennon Art and Design Building.
Johnsons Foundation Auditorium
Johnsons Foundation Auditorium
Chair: Emilie Murphy (York)
Thomas Irvine (Southampton),‘The Noise Big History Makes: A Global History of Sound for the Anthropocene’
Tea and coffee will be served in the Public Exhibition Space, outside the Johnsons Foundation Auditorium.
Chair: Shirley Bell (Sheffield Hallam)
Jennifer Linhart Wood (Folger Shakespeare Library), ‘Singing and “playing in time”: hearing the future of the past through “Bad” Singing’
Sarah F. Williams (South Carolina), ‘How to sing badly: sounds of the streets in late seventeenth-century English theatrical music’
Chair: Linda Sturtz (Macalester)
Jessica Herdman (Manitoba), ‘Listening to wampum: musical materiality in early modern Wendake’
Chris Greencorn (Toronto), ‘Aurality on the edge of empire: listening to/in Marc Lescarbot’s History of New France
Chair: Peter Falconer (Southampton)
Gardika Gigih Pradipta, ‘Lost in sounds: soundscape as a cultural narrative of Southeast Asia and Japanese society’
Thais Guedes Guida (UFPR, Brazil), ‘Soundscapes and environmental education’
Public Exhibition Space
Johnsons Foundation Auditorium
Sound and Race
Katherine Butler-Schofield (KCL)
Nandini Das (Oxford)
Sarah Dustagheer (Kent)
Carmen Fracchia (Birkbeck)
Meleisa Ono-George (Warwick)
Public Exhibition Space
Roundtable discussion
Chair: Jennifer Richards (Newcastle)
Kate Anderson (National Galleries of Scotland)
James Cook (Edinburgh)
Anna Groundwater (National Museums Scotland)
Catriona Murray (Edinburgh)
Chair: Barbara Kennedy
Samantha Chang (Toronto), ‘The sound of painting: intersensoriality in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries’
Marta Battisti (Grenoble), ‘To listen and to obey. Religious and political meanings within Saint Paul’s conversion iconography in sixteenth-century Rome’
Helen Wilcox (Bangor), 'Harmony in Word and Image: English emblem books and their use of music'
Linda Sturtz (Macalester), ‘“Demonstrative arguments” from “instruments of thunder and of terror”: noise in early African-Jamaican holiday festivities’
Christopher Smith (Texas Tech), ‘Spaces, whistles, tags, and drum: irruptive noise in American streets’
Joseph Nelson (Minnesota), ‘“Noise and fury signifying nothing’: music, noise, and the landscape of urban poverty in London from 1650-1850’
Tess Knighton (Barcelona), ‘The soundscape of a parish church in early modern Barcelona’
Hannah Lilley (Birmingham), ‘“Running down sixe well tuned & musicall notes”: middling material cultures of bell-founding and bell-benefaction in early modern England’
Dolly MacKinnon (Queensland), ‘“The bell, like a speedy messenger, runs from house to house, and ear to ear”: the auditory markers of gender, politics and identity in England’
Johnsons Foundation Auditorium
Sound and heritage engagement: a National Trust case study
Peter Falconer (Southampton)
Catherine Jackman (National Trust)
Ben Wilcock (National Trust)
Public Exhibition Space and garden area
Featuring a performance by Passamezzo
John Lennon Art and Design Building Foyer
Renée Vulto (Ghent), ‘The sounds of a revolution: investigating the political role of songs through singing practices: the Netherlands in the 1780s’
Jenni Hyde (Lancaster), ‘Ballads, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace’
Tamsin Lewis (Passamezzo), ‘They that in ships unto the sea down go: music for the Mayflower’
Elin Jones (Exeter), ‘The acoustmatics of protest on royal naval ships, 1750-1815’
Chair: Lisa Walters (Liverpool Hope)
Duncan Frost (Kent), ‘“Apt to learn both to talk and whistle”: the musical training of songbirds in the seventeenth century’
Penelope Gouk (Manchester), ‘thinking with music: Thomas Mace (1613-1706) and the unutterable mystery of the infinite
Aleksandra Buhl Thostrup (York), ‘“The noyse should make you mad”: taking your poison auricularly in the early modern playhouse’
Rachel White (Newcastle), ‘“Cricket cried [Jupiter] rising”: the sounds of William Belgrave’s astrological notebook’
Chair: Louise Wilson (Liverpool Hope)
Josefina Paz Venegas Meza (KCL), ‘“Speak that I may see thee”: foreign accents on the Elizabethan stage’
Laetitia Sansonetti (Nanterre), ‘Phonetic spelling in early modern England: nativising the foreign or foreignising the native?’
Mirjam Haas (Mainz), ‘“Be sure I will dissolve your harmony”: speaking out of tune in early modern drama’
Antonio Arnieri (Verona), ‘Sound and identity in Shakespeare’s Othello’
Chair: Iain Fenlon (Cambridge)
Katelyn Clark (UBC), ‘Prospect of the king: imagining historical soundscapes at Sans-Souci Palace (1747)
Alexandros Maria Hatzikiriakos (Verona), ‘Noise, music and power in early modern Cretan Cities
Oscar Patton (York), ‘Royal authority and religious identity in the Elizabethan Chapel Royal (1558-1603)’
Elizabeth Natour (Regensburg), ‘The politics of the soundscape and the politics of music. Tracing the European idea of musical rulership’
Public Exhibition Space
Johnsons Foundation Auditorium
Chair: Niall Atkinson (Chicago)
Rosa Salzberg (Warwick), ‘The sounds of the city: listening to an early modern migropolis’
Public Exhibition Space
Chair: Dolly MacKinnon (Queensland)
Mariana Lopez (York), ‘Sound installations in heritage sites: a discussion on practices of evocation, recreation and artistic reflection’
Andrea Smith (UEA), ‘How radio productions of Shakespeare’s plays can help us understand the sounds on the stage of the early modern playhouse
Lidia Alvarez-Morales (York), ‘Cathedral acoustics in early modern England: reconstructing the indoor soundscape within cathedrals through acoustic simulations’
Chair: Rosamund Oates (MMU)
William Rees Hofmann (SOAS), ‘Listening to sound, emotion, and meaning in early modern Sufi texts from India’
Clarissa Chenovik (Florida Atlantic), ‘“Christian songs sound sweet suffering”: birdsong and inarticulate expressions of grief in early modern English devotion’
Catherine Evans (Edinburgh), ‘“Here is musicke, such as it is; but how long will it hold!”: The sound of meditation’
Sara Steffen (Basel) ‘“Under the foot”: policing vocal media in the sixteenth-century Swiss Confederation
Markus Bardenheuer (Basel), ‘The silent life. negotiating the soundscape of rural Zurich in the Long Reformation
Jan-Friedrich Missfelder (Basel), ‘The greatest hits of 1712. singing civil war in early modern Switzerland’
Chair: Louise Wilson (Liverpool Hope)
Erin Weinberg (Brandon), ‘“Lest your justice prove violence”: The Winter’s Tale, misogyny and “Cancel Culture”’
Cécile de Morrée (Utrecht), ‘Gendered performance and the social sounding of early modern parodic song’
Michelle O’Callaghan (Reading), ‘“Good ladies, help to fill my mourning voice”: performing affective communities’
Public Exhibition Space
Elisabeth Lutteman (Uppsala), ‘Listening for disguise on the early modern English stage’
Joshua Caldicott (Nottingham and Shakespeare Institute), ‘“The seasoning of a play”: The sound of applause in early modern drama’
Richard Wistreich (RCM), ‘“Il vero modo di cantar”: the international transmission of the Italian sound of singing in early modern Europe’
Francesc Orts-Ruiz (EASD-ISEACV), ‘For the king or for the city? The variety of sounds in the royal entry of John II of Aragon in Valencia (1459)
Emanuela Vai (Oxford), ‘Staging soundscapes in an early modern Venetian town’
Iain Fenlon (Cambridge), ‘Catholicizing Córdoba: the soundscape of a transformed city’
Catriona Cooper (York)
John Cooper (York)
Damian Murphy (York)
Hasan Baran Firat (Campania)
Massimiliano Massullo (Campania)
Luigi Maffei (Campania)
Johnsons Foundation Auditorium
Chair: Richard Wistreich (RCM)
Alexander Fisher (UBC), 'Of Virgins, Hosts, and Heavenly Sirens: Hearing the Sonic Imaginary of German Catholicism, 1580-1650'
The Bluecoat
School Lane,
Liverpool
L1 3BX
John Lennon Art and Design Building Foyer
Johnsons Foundation Auditorium
Exploring the sounds of the Wellcome Collection
Public Exhibition Space
Shirley Bell (Sheffield Hallam), ‘“Let’s have a mad catch then”: musical depictions of male madness in the plays of Richard Brome’
James Waddell (UCL), ‘“Perilous tumult”: distracting noise in The Faerie Queene
Jimena Marron Ruiz (York) title tbc
Eleanor Hedger (Birmingham) “’Scandalous words, scoffs, jests, taunts, or songs’: soundscapes of libelling in early modern England’
Catherine Fletcher (MMU), ‘Soundscapes of Italian Wars’
Jean David Eynard (Cambridge), ‘Discordant voices and the politics of hearing in Milton’s defence tracts’
Chair: Penelope Gouk (Manchester)
Rosamund Oates (MMU), ‘“Speaking in hands” Sign language, preaching and deafness in early modern England’
Avi Mendelson, ‘Sounding madness in Shakespeare’
Barbara Kennedy, ‘“With harmonie diuine”: The therapeutic meaning of Thomas Campion’s ayres’
Public Exhibition Space
Johnsons Foundation Auditorium
Chair: Jennifer Richards (Newcastle)
Katherine Larson (Toronto), ‘The Songscapes of Early Modern Women’
Image: Franz Cleyn, 'Hearing (Auditus)', from Quinque Sensuum, c. 1655 