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A quick reminder that nominations for our co-chair and grad rep elections are due this Friday, May 29th! We will be holding two elections in June for a new Co-Chair to serve a three-year term and a new Graduate Representative to serve a two-year term.
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If you are interested in either of these positions, please send: - your name - affiliation - a brief bio (~150 words) - and statement explaining your interest in and qualifications for the position (~300 words)
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C8 Vocal Ontologies in the Age of AI Histories, Infrastructures, and Fractures C20 Embodying and Performing Gameworld Sonic Environments H19 Soundscapes Speaking J10 Music, Soundscape, and Sound Design
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M10 “Territories of Freedom” Sounding Utopia, Rage and Grief in Contemporary Women’s Cinema M18 The Future of Music? AI as Promise, Problem, Practice N1 Sonic Spectacles Sound as a Transmedia Phenomenon of Violence, Trauma, and Witnessing
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N14 Listening to The Zone of Interest Holocaust Cinema and the Ethics of Sound
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Happy Conference Week! We will be hosting a joint social event with the RAMP (Radio, Audio Media, and Podcasting) SIG on Thursday, March 26, from 5–7pm. Check your group messaging email for details.
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From the Classic Hollywood SIG: This Friday (2/27) at 3pm EST, we are excited to be hosting a virtual event that we think might be of interest to your SIG’s membership. Frank Krutnik will be discussing his new book, Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers: Radio and Film Noir
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(Rutgers, 2025). Frank’s book explores how these largely neglected radio dramas were counterparts to, influences on, or spin-offs from the noir films and challenge conventional understandings of this film genre.
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Rob King will moderate the event. There will be a brief presentation, discussion between the author and moderator, and then time for discussion. The event will be held on Zoom here: rowan.zoom.us/j/6087666070?p…
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CFP for IMR week (end of March) on new forms of image-sound relations (impossible auralities) in contemporary cinemas! Abstracts due March 16.
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TODAY! Tuesday, February 17th, at 3pm Pacific Standard Time on Zoom, we're hosting a round of lightning talks by some of our graduate students who are preparing for dissertation defenses in the coming months. Please join us to hear about their research and to help them prepare!
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Lauren Berlin, “American Identity and the Postwar Television Variety Show, 1948–1963” Jay Rauch, “Archival Ecologies: Performing Preservation in Pittsburgh’s Improv Scenes” Ravi Krishnaswami, “From ProTools to Python: AI Music as the New Functional Music”
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Each speaker will talk for approximately ten minutes, and there will be time for Q&A (the event will last between 1.5 and 2 hours). Please support this amazing group of graduate students!
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Thanks for being part of our community, and keep an eye out for information about an informal gathering at the conference along with those sponsored panels. Have a wonderful holiday season!
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