Schedule: Friday (Public Talks)
1:30-3:45: Panel 1: Globalization, Colonisation, Revolution
David Kennerley, “The Lancashire and Cheshire Working Men’s Singing Classes and the Sounds of Chartism”
Maria Semi, “Sound and Senses Going Global in 18th C. Britain”
Josephine McDonagh, “John Galt and the Sounds of Colonisation”
Chair: Sejal Sutaria
3:45-4:15: Reception
4:15-6:30: Panel 2: Sound, Science, Spectacle
Kathy Fry, “Mary Somerville’s Sound Accomplishments ca. 1834”
Melissa Dickson, “Tuning In with the Stethoscope in the 19th C.”
Oskar Cox Jensen, “Of Sight and Sound, or, Realising The Enraged Musician”
Chair: Benjamin Steege
Schedule: Saturday (Workshop)
The workshop will be devoted to discussion of each paper and broader themes of general interest. Pre-registration is required.
10:00-12:30: Session 1: Power, Interest, Liberty
James Chandler, “‘Prophetic Harmony’: Wordsworth and the Sound of Power”
Rowan Boyson, “Pleasure, Pollution and the Prosodic Turn”
Nicholas Mathew, “Haydn, Interest, and the Commercial Streetscape in 1790s London”
Chair: Eileen Gillooly
1:30-2:15: Session 2: Ecomusicologies
Ellen Lockhart, “Lupus Tonalis”
Jonathan Hicks, “Aurality, Mobility, and Fingal’s Cave”
Chair: Emily Bloom
3:15-4:45: Session 3: Speaking and Listening
James Grande, “On Tongues and Ears: Divine Voices in the Modern Metropolis”
Carmel Raz, “‘To ‘Fill Up, Completely the Whole Capacity of the Mind’: Listening and Attention in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland”
Chair: Dustin Stewart
5:00-6:00 Discussion