Sound and Anthropology

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Call for papers and presentations
Sound and Anthropology Conference

A collaboration between Department of Social Anthropology, St Andrews,
Scotland and Department of Sound Arts and Design, London College of
Communication, University of the Arts, London
Funded by the AHRC

19-21 June 2006.
St Andrews University, Scotland

This conference is the result of an innovative collaborative project
between the Social Anthropology Department, St Andrews and the Sound
Arts and Design department, LCC, University of the Arts, London. The
project has involved collaboration and dialogue between sound artists
and anthropologists, covering subjects such as the soundscape, acoustic
ecology, poetics, language, as well as postgraduate training in
methodologies and skills.
We invite proposals for papers, panels and works on subjects related to
the conjoined disciplines of sound and anthropology, most specifically
on the subject of body, environment and human sound-making, from
anthropologists, sound artists and researchers in associated
disciplines, including postgraduates, wishing to contribute to and
extend this exciting area of study.

Subjects might include:
Sound/Environment/Landscape
Listening and the Senses
Sound/Health/Body
Poetics/Magic Words
Sound and Migration
Speech/Utterance/Language
Archival sound/Oral history
Airwaves/Technology
Ethics/Collecting sound
Using recordings
Sound art/Performance and Anthropology
Sound/Rhythm/Rhyme
Silence and Noise

Please submit 200 word (maximum) abstract; 100 word (maximum)
biography; technical requirements; name, position, institution; postal
address; email address; phone number.
We encourage proposals from postgraduate research students.
There will be limited opportunity to display works

Closing date for submission: February 15th, 2006
Speakers will be notified by March 24th, 2006

Proposals should be sent to:
Dr Stephanie Bunn sjb20@st-andrews.ac.uk,
Dr Cathy Lane c.lane@lcc.arts.ac.uk


Dr Cathy Lane
CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice)
http://www.soundarts.co.uk/