Graeme Gooday & Annie Jamieson, "Normalizing Hearing," work-in-progress.
This group forges interdisciplinary and intersectional connections in the history of science, technology, and medicine, sound studies, military studies, and disability history to probe questions about measuring and manipulating modern aurality. It will examine how and why sound became measured and standardized, as well as how aurality intersected with social differences.
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Past Meetings
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Mara Mills, “Testing Hearing With Speech,” in Mara Mills, Viktoria Tkaczyk, and Alix Hui, Testing Hearing (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Joeri Bruyninckx, “Of Silent Sirens and Pied Pipers: Auditory Thresholds and High-Frequency Technologies of Animal Control,” in in Mara Mills, Viktoria Tkaczyk, and Alix Hui, Testing Hearing (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
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David Suisman, Introduction to "The Sounds of American Power: Music and the Sonic History of Warfare"
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Jaipreet Virdi, “Measuring and Conserving Hearing: Early Audiology & the Fitting of Hearing Aids,” work-in-progress.
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Coreen McGuire, “The Audiometer and the Medicalisation of Hearing Loss,” Chapter 4 of Measuring Disability, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period (Manchester University Press, forthcoming).
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Jacques Vest, “The Malingering Ear: Audiometric Surveillance at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” work-in-progress.
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Postponed
Coreen McGuire, “The Audiometer and the Medicalisation of Hearing Loss,” Chapter 4 of Measuring Disability, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period (Manchester University Press, forthcoming).
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Mara Mills, Viktoria Tkaczyk, and Alix Hui, “Introduction,” in Testing Hearing (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
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