The conference events are held in three different locations. Please note below the day, time, and location of each event.
Sounding the Spectral: A Symposium
Program
Friday, May 12, 2023
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
Performance Penthouse 901: 915 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
1:00 pm: WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
Seth Brodsky, Associate Professor, Music; Director, Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, University of Chicago
Martha Feldman, Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Professor of Music and Theater & Performance Studies, University of Chicago
1:15 pm: SESSION ONE: Chair, Andrei Pohorelsky, PhD Candidate, Music, University of Chicago
Carolyn Abbate, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor and Chair of Music, Harvard University
Music’s Phantom Efficacy
Martin Daughtry, Associate Professor of Music, New York University, & Jairo Moreno, Associate Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania
(De)crescendo
3:15 pm: Coffee break
3:30 pm: KEYNOTE
Fumi Okiji, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
Subjunctive, Semblant, Spectral; Haiti’s Infrasonic Blur
Chair, Seth Brodsky, Associate Professor, Music; Director, Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, University of Chicago
Respondent, Michael Gallope, Associate Professor, Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
926 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
5:15 pm: WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 E. 57th Street, Regenstein Library, S-102, Chicago, IL 60637
9:30 am: Breakfast
10:00 am: SESSION TWO: Chair, Danielle Roper, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures and Theater & Performance Studies, University of Chicago
Jessica Swanston Baker, Assistant Professor, Music and Theater & Performance Studies, University of Chicago
Sounding in the Wake: Thinking with Jumbies in the Caribbean Archipelago
Martha Feldman, Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor of Music and Theater & Performance Studies, University of Chicago
The Castrato as Subject, Dead or Alive
12:00 pm: Lunch
1:15 pm: SESSION THREE: Chair, Audrey Slote, PhD Candidate, Music, University of Chicago
Seth Brodsky, Associate Professor, Music; Director, Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
Handwringing/On Hidden Labors
Amy Cimini, Associate Professor of Music, Integrative Studies, University of California, San Diego
Spectra against Surveillance
Bonnie Gordon, Associate Professor of Critical & Comparative Studies, Music, University of Virginia
The Lost: Castrates in Ghostly Contact Zones
4:00 pm: Coffee break
4:15-5:30 pm: FINAL ROUNDTABLE:
Co-chairs, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson, Northwestern University, Performance Studies and Asian American Studies, and Varshini Narayanan, PhD Candidate, Music and Theater & Performance Studies, University of Chicago