Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism 2016

Deadline July 8th, 2016

WHITE NOISE

A research event at

London College of Communication,
University of the Arts London

November 11th – 12th 2016

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION Deadline July 8th, 2016

We are delighted to announce a call for the 3rd Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism research event to take place in London on November 11th and 12th 2016.

Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism is a bi-annual research event initially established in 2012 as a network for researchers, artists and performers working within intersectional fields of sound, gender, feminism and activism. SGFA::2012 delivered presentations and audio-visual artworks from thirty-six researchers, artists and performers from the UK, Europe, United States and Australia. SGFA::2014 incorporated performances, lectures, workshops and presentations from over thirty global participants. A publication that celebrates the presentations and participants from the previous two events will be launched at SGFA::2016.

SGFA::2016 seeks to query an expanded concept of White Noise. Working out from white noise’s original sonic conception of a random frequency, broad-based signal that masks everything else, white noise is all around us. White Noise is what Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman has termed a “sonic protocol” an often unquestioned norm based upon “culturally specific and socially constructed conventions that shape how sound is made, used and interpreted at a given moment”.

SGFA::2016 invites submissions for both twenty and ten minute contributions relating to the question;

How does whiteness, transmitted as an often sub-audible yet ubiquitous frequency, establish and maintain perceptual limits of what and who can be heard and how can this be changed?

How can we “confront and broadcast the underlying whiteness of the field and of the generic terms that provide so much currency in it: terms like “the listener,” “the body,” “the ear” and so on” (Stadler 2015) in ways that do not replicate racism, colonialism and gender violence but rather enable the audible transmission of alternative histories, forms, relations and ways of being.

SGFA::2016 will expand upon the previous research events through a combination of presentation formats over the course of two days; both twenty minute formal research papers and ten minute emerging researcher/artist presentations for the sharing of recent or ongoing work are sought.
This is an open call and we welcome responses from all relevant disciplines and will accept a variety of formats from academic presentations, proposals for artworks and documentation of artworks to more experimental contributions.

Please send expressions of interest, including the theme, topic and format of your presentation of around 200 words and a short biography of no more than 200 words by Friday 8th July, 2016 to SGFA2016.

Kindly supported by http://www.crisap.org

Cathy Lane
http://cathylane.co.uk

Call for Contributions

Women, Gender and Information and Communication Technologies
(Europe, 19th-21st centuries)
International Symposium
Paris

15-16 May 2014
Organized by LabEx EHNE (Écrire une histoire nouvelle de l’Europe – Writing a New History of Europe),
Research strands 1 and 6 (http://www.labex-ehne.fr)
in partnership with the CNRS Institute for Communication Sciences (ISCC)

Although pioneering studies have contributed in the last few years to highlighting numerous aspects of the gendered construction of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), via analyses concerning women telephone operators, female radio listeners, or even the ENIAC Girls, the place of women and of gender in the history of information and communication technologies remains to be reflected upon and written, whether it is the role and the representation of the two sexes regarding research, conception, utilisation or consumption.

It is hoped that these two days will compare European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies, since the telegraph. The study days invite transnational and interdisciplinary analyses across the long term, drawing as much upon the history of computer science and ICT as upon the history of work, organisations, consumption, education, media, and gender studies.

In touching upon imaginations, values, figures, models and practices that cut across the history of the telegraph, the telephone, the radio, the TV, the internet and digital devices, we hope to explore in particular the manner in which the history of information and communication technologies can enrich gender studies, and conversely the way in which the latter can shed light on studies related to ITC. The aim is to do so via numerous angles of approach (not exclusive of other approaches):

– Female actors of ICT: individual and collective historical figures, inventors,
programmers, researchers, professional users, consumers etc.
– The gendered representations of the public actors of ICT and their evolution
(discourses, advertising, teaching and education, imagination etc).
– The stakeholders implicated at the heart of ICT, affected by the problematic of
gender (European associations, national or transnational collectives etc).
– ITCs as producers of new spaces for the expression of gender.
– The specificity or not of European research in the gendered approach of ITCs in relation to the work carried out in North America.

Papers should be twenty minutes in length and can be delivered in French or English. The organising committee would be particularly interested in proposals integrating a diachronic dimension and those explicitly touching upon a European dimension. Proposals from postgraduate students or early-career researchers are welcome.

Submission
Proposals should be sent to fgtic@iscc.cnrs.fr They should be one page long, contain a bibliography and if possible a proposed plan.
Authors can include a summary of their publications/research and a brief biography in their initial e-mail.

Deadlines
• Deadline for submission of proposals: March 1st 2014
• Notification of acceptance: March 15th 2014
• International Symposium: May 15th and 16th 2014
This information is available on http://genreurope.hypotheses.org/

Organizers
Delphine Diaz (IRICE, Université Paris-Sorbonne, LabEx EHNE)
Valérie Schafer (ISCC, CNRS)
Régis Schlagdenhauffen (LISE, CNAM/CNRS, LabEx EHNE)
Benjamin Thierry (IRICE, Université Paris-Sorbonne)

Program Committee
Gerard Alberts (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Alec Badenoch (Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Utrecht University)
Isabelle Berrebi-Hoffmann (LISE, CNAM/CNRS)
Niels Brügger (The Centre for Internet Studies, Aarhus University)
Frédéric Clavert (Université Paris-Sorbonne, IRICE, LabEx EHNE)
Delphine Gardey (Faculté des Sciences de la Société, Université de Genève)
Pascal Griset (Université Paris-Sorbonne, CRHI-IRICE/ISCC, LabEx EHNE)
Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, IUF)
Christophe Lécuyer (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Ilana Löwy (Cermes, CNRS, EHESS, Inserm, Paris 5)
Cécile Méadel (CSI, MINES Paris Tech)
Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology, Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson
Center, Munich)
Jean-Claude Ruano-Borbalan (HT2S, CNAM)
Fabrice Virgili (IRICE, CNRS, LabEx EHNE)

Conference Secretary
Arielle Haakenstad (Université Paris-Sorbonne, IRICE/ISCC, LabEx EHNE)