Sound Studies Specialisation in MA Media Culture

Students interested in the role of sound in everyday life and media can apply to do an MA in Media Culture at Maastricht University. The programme now features a new specialisation in Sound Studies, coordinated by Karin Bijsterveld. You can…

New Podcast on Sonification

Recently, Alexandra Supper’s research on sonification was featured in the podcast of the journal Social Studies of Science. The podcast consists of journal editor Sergio Sismondo interviewing Alexandra about several examples of sonifications (LHCSound, Sonification of Brain Activity, and Stellar…

Special Issue on “Aural History” for The Public Historian (CfP)

CfP for book reviews, exhibition reviews, website reviews and other small items (deadline for proposals March 19, 2014) Karin Bijsterveld is guest editor of a special issue on Aural History for the peer-reviewed, US-based journal The Public Historian that is…

Karin Bijsterveld at the Hearing Modernity Seminar

On March 31st, Karin Bijsterveld will be giving a talk in a series of lectures at Harvard University’s Hearing Modernity seminar. She will be presenting about her research at the STASI archives about the eavesdropping practices in the GDR. Details…

New Book: Sound and Safe

The monograph Sound and Safe: A History of Listening Behind the Wheel was recently published by Oxford University Press. The book has emerged from the research on the NWO-funded project “Selling Sound: The Standardization of Sound in the European Car…

Karin Bijsterveld at the Sound Signatures Summer School, Berlin 2014

Karin Bijsterveld will be one of the anchor speakers at the Sound Signatures Summer School, held in Berlin on August 18-22, 2014. The topic of the Summer School is “Epistemologies and the Order of Sound”. For more details, see the…