How do papers work at this symposium?
Each chapter in Quiet Relations: a Minor Volume (the book) has 40 minutes for a combination of presentation, discussant remarks, and Q&A. Pre-publication drafts of the chapters will be made available to all symposium participants and registered attendees no later than October 13. Attending without reading/walk-ins are completely okay and welcomed!
Monday, October 20
9:00 Hello! and coffee
9:30-10:50 Session 1
Quieting the Monstrous Spectacle: On the Haunting Blackness of Black Horror
Deonte Harris
Joella Bitter (discussant and moderator)
Quiet Tones of Taste and Tongue
Joella Bitter
Benjamin Tausig (discussant and moderator)
break (and more coffee)
11:05-12:25 Session 2
Quiet and Non-Acoustic Sound in Human-Nonhuman Intra-Relations
Jeff Dyer
Ian MacMillen (discussant and moderator)
Minor+: Both a Time to Be Quiet and a Time to Speak
Ian MacMillen
Jessica A. Holmes (discussant and moderator)
lunch
1:30-3:30 Session 3
A Different Kind of Quiet: Collaborative Discussion from Deaf Performers
Julia Silverstri, Jody H. Cripps, Ian Sanborn, Pamela Witcher, and JB Begue
Christine Sun Kim's Ethos of Quiet Refusal
Jessica A. Homes
Andrea F. Bohlman (discussant and moderator)
[/Laughs]: Aural Refusal in Intimate Thai-U.S. Relations Since the Cold War
Maria Fantinato Geo de Siqueira (discussant and moderator)
break
3:45-5:05 Session 4
Data Colonization and Its Refusals
Darci Sprengel
Sidra Lawrence (discussant and moderator)
Your Silence Speaks Volumes: Testimonial Injustice and the Perils of Narration
Sidra Lawrence
Joshua D. Pilzer (discussant and moderator)
6:30 Symposium Dinner at Kebab and Curry Durham
In-person presenters
Tuesday, October 21
8:30 9:00 coffee and pastries
9:00-10:20 9:30-10:10 Session 5
The Poetics of Mishearing (cancelled due to extenuating circumstances)
How to Touch Silence
Yun Emily Wang
Jeff Dyer (discussant and moderator)
break
10:35-12:00 Session 6
Archival Quiet on the Far Side of Silence: "Self-Posessed, Calm- Watching Fish"
Andrea F. Bohlman
Marié Abe (discussant and moderator)
Cody Black (discussant and moderator)
Mutual Inscriptions: Toward and Acoustic Ecology of Deeper Listening
Maria Fantinato Geo de Siqueira and Canto V. Engelhard
Yun Emily Wang (discussant and moderator)
lunch
1:30-2:50 Session 7
The Screaming Urn: Restraining and Releasing the Voice in a Japan in Crisis
Darci Sprengel (discussant and moderator)
Underhearing Chaos: Suicide, Subvocality, and Transient Stabilities in South Korea
Cody Black
Deonte Harris (discussant and moderator)
stretch! almost there!
3:00-4:00 Cross-talk, discussion, and closing remarks