[Commlist] Audible Imaginations: Listening, Technologies and Coloniality (hybrid event)

We have the pleasure of inviting everyone to *Audible Imaginations: 
Listening, Technologies and Coloniality,* a one-day event for sharing, 
connecting, and imagining sonic worlds through cultures, technologies, 
and sounds from the Americas, on 5 October, from 9:30am to 6pm, at the 
Teaching and Learning Space in the Music Library, in the UofT Faculty of 
Music.

*The in-person registration to our event is sold out!*

We have set up a Zoom meeting so the event can be streamed online and 
increase access to the conversations.

Importantly, hybrid events tend to complicate audience participation. We 
will make an effort to receive and address participants from the online 
room. However, we apologize in advance in case questions get lost in the 
conversation.

There will be no registration for attending online, but there will be a 
moderator controling access. See below the event’s program to access the 
meeting room.

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*Event Overview and Program*

The world is living with rising tensions: wars and trade wars, economic 
instability, political polarization, ethnic cleansing, xenophobia, 
racism, and authoritarianism. It is also growing its dependence on 
constantly evolving technologies: new digital companies and 
intermediaries, generative AI, and media and social media devices. These 
conditions are directly related to a resurgence in imperialist logics 
made possible by lingering structures of colonialism, even after years 
of supposed decolonization.

In the Americas, all populations are connected by the legacy of 
colonization, present in our economies but especially in our cultures 
and technologies: it influences how we think, express, and produce our 
knowledge and shape information; how we make and circulate art and 
media; and how we enjoy them.

Audible Imaginations invites people whose work involves understanding 
and explaining how this legacy persists, from a fresh, less-explored 
modality of expression, production, and creativity: sound. We invite our 
audience of scholars, students, community educators, technologists, and 
civil society to explore how listening is a form of getting to know 
things, understanding our world, and imposing or negotiating power.

In the morning, we will host “pandemonium ts’éqw’ ”, a keynote by Prof. 
Dylan Robinson (UBC).

In Althusser and Fanon’s classic examples of Interpellation, forms of 
vocal address are at the heart of subject formation. Focusing instead on 
non-human forms of interpellation, and in particular, the sensory 
appeals of public art, Robinson argues that public art plays a 
significant role in the formation of settler subjectivity and Indigenous 
resurgence. Theorizing the intersensory clamour and haptic rumblings of 
public art’s of material forms, Robinson asks how settler and Indigenous 
subjects are constituted through listening toward (and away from) “all 
our relations” within the urban pandemonium. Building upon an 
intersensory and connective practice of listening from a xwélmexw 
(Stó:lō) cultural orientation, Robinson asks what it means to hear 
(non-sounding) public artwork.

Dylan Robinson is a xwélmexw (Stó:lō/Skwah) artist, curator and writer. 
From 2015-2022 he was the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at 
Queen’s University. Dr. Robinson’s curatorial work includes the 
international touring exhibition Soundings (2019-2025) co-curated with 
Candice Hopkins. His current research project xoxelhmetset te syewa:l, 
Caring for Our Ancestors, involves working with Indigenous artists to 
reconnect kinship with Indigenous life incarcerated in museums.

His book, Hungry Listening (University Minnesota Press, 2020), examines 
Indigenous and settler colonial practices of listening, and was awarded 
best first book for the Native American and Indigenous Studies 
Association, Canadian Association for Theatre Research, and the Labriola 
Centre American Indian National Book Award. Other publications include 
the edited volume Music and Modernity Among Indigenous Peoples of North 
America (Wesleyan University Press, 2019); and Arts of Engagement: 
Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation 
Commission of Canada (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016). As 
co-chair of the Indigenous Advisory Council for the Canadian Music 
Centre, he is currently leading a process for the reparation and redress 
of music that appropriates Indigenous song, and misrepresents Indigenous 
culture.

In the afternoon, we will host two roundtables with scholars from UofT, 
UBC, and Wilfrid Laurier University, as well as Brazilian universities 
(UFRJ, UFF, UFES). You can find the full program below and at the 
registration link.


*Program*

9:30am - Welcome
10:00am - Keynote: pandemonium ts’éqw’
Dylan Robinson (UBC)
11:00am - Dialogue with Keynote speaker

12:00pm - Lunch Break

1:30pm - Roundtable 1: Listening Spaces, Materialities and Learning
Gustavo Ferreira (UofT - iSchool)
Antia Gonzales Ben (UofT - OISE)
Laura Menard (UofT - FOM)
Pedro Marra (UFES - Brazil);
Douglas Friesen (Wilfrid Laurier University)

3:30pm - Coffee Break

4pm - Roundtable 2: Listening, Technologies, Power and Music
José Castanheira (UFF - Brazil)
Melina Santos Silva (UFRJ - Brazil)
Mark V. Campbell (UTSC)
Freya Zinovieff (SFU)
Mitchell Akyama (UofT - Daniels)


6:00pm - Closing Remarks
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