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Upcoming Meetings

There are no currently scheduled upcoming events.

Past Meetings

  • March 16, 2023

    Kelli Smith-Biwer (UNC)
    Dissertation chapter 2:  Tangled Technologies: Audio Cables and Midcentury Scientific Masculinity
  • February 16, 2023

    We'll discuss the introduction and first chapter of Fanny Gribenski's new book, Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955 (Chicago, 2023).
     
  • January 19, 2023

    We'll discuss the Intro and Chapter 1 of Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation by Nick Seaver (Chicago Press, 2022).
  • December 15, 2022

    We'll be discussing

    McCray, Patrick. 2020. Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

     
  • November 17, 2022

    We'll be discussing a chapter from Katherine McKittrick's 2021 book Dear Science, "(Zong) Bad Made Measure" (pp125-150).
    Magnus Schaeffer will be joining back as discussant!
     

     

     
  • October 20, 2022

    we'll be discussing Cecchetto, David. Listening in the Afterlife of Data: Aesthetics, Pragmatics, and Incommunication.
  • September 15, 2022

    We'll be discussing chapter 4 from
    Sterne, Jonathan. 2021. Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment. Duke University Press.
  • June 10, 2022

    Guest: Dr. Sarah Fuchs. Assistant Professor of Music History and Cultures (Syracuse University)
    We'll be discussing an excerpt from Dr. Fuchs's current book project, with the working title Operatic Artifacts: Opera, Archives, and Audio-Visual Media in Paris and the Provinces.
     
    The text for Chapter 4, "Opera and orthophonie in the Laboratoire de la Parole" is attached.
     
    We'll briefly introduce the visitor, begin with introductory remarks on the reading, then discuss participants' questions and other topics of interest to the visitor as appropriate.
     
    All are welcome!
  • May 19, 2022

    Guest visit: Dr. Mara Mills (Media, Culture and Communication, NYU / personal website)
    We'll be discussing Dr. Mills' recent presentation, "Everything is a filter? George Campbell and the development of the electrical filter in the Bell System (1903-1915)."
    A link to the lecture is included in the pdf for the meeting.
    This will be moderated by Magnus Schaeffer, Ph.D. student in Media and Communication at McGill University.
    We'll briefly introduce the visitor, begin with introductory remarks on the reading, then discuss participants' questions as well as topics of interest to the visitor as appropriate.
    All are welcome!
  • April 8, 2022

    Guest: Dr. Peter Sachs Collopy (University Archivist and Head of Archives and Special Collections, California Institute of Technology; personal website)
    We'll be discussing Dr. Collopy's essay, "When Computer Animation Was Analog: Scanimate and the Work of Image Processing."
    This session will be moderated by Dr. Ted Gordon, professor of Music at Baruch College.
    All are welcome!