Marie Thompson
4th March 2025
09:00-12:00 ECAL/Salle Leenaards
Co-founder of the Sonic Cyberfeminisms project and lecturer in popular music at the Open University, her work questions the links between gender, race and listening culture. Most notably the author of Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism (2017), Thompson offers an update of her seminal article ‘Whiteness and the Ontological turn in Sound Studies’ (2017).
Jessie Cox
18th March 2025
09:00-12:00 ECAL/Salle Leenaards
Musician, composer and professor at Harvard University, Jesse Cox is unveiling an extraordinarily provocative and inspiring monograph: Sounds of Black Switzerland (Duke University Press, 2025). In this analysis, supervised by George Lewis, Cox identifies the varieties of Black life in Switzerland, the particularities of anti-blackness, and its effects: erasure, silence and limitation, as well as the creation of specific listening practices.
Hannah Catherine Jones
09 April 2025
13h30-18h30 ECAL/salle Leenaards 16h30 ECAL/Studio Cinema
Lecture and bowls performance by the artist (aka foxymoron), researcher (PhD), multi-instrumentalist, conductor and founder of the queer diasporic choir Chiron Choir, presenter and DJ for BBC Radio/TV and on NTS – The Opera Show. Based in London, their work is all related to institutional decolonisation and the diasporic uses of vibration-frequency-sound-music, particularly in the context of individual and collective healing practices.
With the support of Univers Harmonie (univers-harmonie.ch) Lausanne.