This HEIF-supported knowledge exchange event will bring together curators, heritage professionals, sound artists and scholars who are invested in different forms of heritage decolonisation.
Registration has now closed for this event. Please email events@city.ac.uk if you have any questions.
The day will explore the use of sound as a tool of public engagement, learning, and critique in heritage spaces, and how sound may be used to centre previously marginalised stories and voices.
Further information can be found on the Re-sounding the Past website.
This event is convened by Dr Maria Mendonça (Kenyon College, US/City) and Professor Laudan Nooshin (City).
Schedule
You can download the programme here.
9.15am Welcome
9.30-11am: Session 1
Chair: Eleanor M.K. Ryan (University of Cambridge)
- James Bulgin (IWM London): ‘Revising Sound’s Scope in IWM’s New Holocaust Galleries’
- John Kannenberg (Museum of Portable Sound): ‘Sound Studies as a Museum Decolonisation Methodology: The Museum of Portable Sound’
- Susanna Austin (Curator and Visitor Experience Consultant): ‘Integrity and the Visitor Experience of Voices and Sound in Historic Spaces'
- Marion Leonard (University of Liverpool): ‘Taking up Space: Using Sound in a Strategy to Decolonise the Museum’
11am-11.30am: Break
Refreshments in the Performance Space foyer on the lower ground floor of the College Building
11.30-1pm: Session 2
Chair: Flora Dennis (University of Sussex)
- Jeanice Brooks (University of Southampton) and Wiebke Thormählen (Royal Northern College of Music): ‘Hearing New Voices in Historic House Museums’
- Aki Pasoulas (University of Kent) and Brona Martin (University of Birmingham): ‘Sonic Palimpsest – Revisiting Chatham Historic Dockyards’
- Mariana López (University of York): ‘Diversifying Acoustical Heritage and Historical Soundscapes Research’
1-2pm: Lunch
Room ALG08, Common Room, lower ground floor of the College Building. N.B. feel free to take sandwiches onto the grass in Northampton Square if the weather is nice
2-3pm: Session 3
Chair: Laura Joy Pieters (Science Museum)
- Rachel Cowgill (University of York): ‘Sonic Recoveries: Rearticulating the Lost Spaces of a Historic High Street through Sound’
- Louise K. Wilson (University of Leeds): ‘Encountering Survival: Audio Guides for Holocaust Centre North’
3-4pm: Break Out Sessions
Rooms AG09, A107, A108, A111, Performance Space
Led by Jeanice Brooks (University of Southampton) Marion Leonard (University of Liverpool) and Susanna Austin (Curator and Visitor Experience Consultant); Rachel Cowgill (University of York); John Kannenberg (Museum of Portable Sound); Brona Martin (University of Birmingham) and Aki Pasoulas (University of Kent); and Rina Sagoo (Museum of London)
4pm: Break
Refreshments in Performance Space foyer
4.30-5.15pm: Plenary session
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