Conference - 'After Idealism: Sound as Matter and Medium in the 19 Century'

17-18 March 2017, University of Cambridge

Conference details, registration & full programme: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26935

This conference aims to enlarge substantially our understanding of the dialogue between 19th-century music and natural science, examining in particular how a scientific-materialist conception of sound was formed alongside a dominant culture of romantic idealism. It takes as its subject sound as matter and medium, focusing on the domains of natural science, emergent technologies, sentient communication and acoustics.

Speakers include:

• Carolyn Abbate (Harvard / musicology)
• Nikita Braguinski (Humboldt Universität / media theory)
• Melissa van Drie (Cambridge / theatre studies)
• Edward Gillin (Cambridge / history of architecture)
• Alexandra Hui (Mississippi / history and philosophy of science)
• Sybille Krämer (Freie Universität / media philosophy)
• Melle Kromhout (Amsterdam / musicology)
• Julia Kursell (Amsterdam / musicology)
• Roger Moseley (Cornell / musicology)
• Peter Pesic (Santa Fe / history and philosophy of science)
• John Durham Peters (Iowa / communication studies)
• Alexander Rehding (Harvard / music theory)
• Milla Tiainen (Helsinki / musicology)
• Viktoria Tkaczyk (Max Planck, Berlin / history and philosophy of science)
• David Trippett (Cambridge / musicology)

Registration is now open via the conference site (£40 full fee -- £15 student or unwaged)