[csaa-forum] Registrations open - The Politics of Listening - 29-30 November, UNSW Sydney

Tanja Dreher t.dreher at unsw.edu.au
Wed Oct 10 08:39:12 ACST 2018


The Politics of Listening 2018

A two-day interdisciplinary conference hosted by the School of Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Convened by Tanja Dreher (UNSW) and Poppy de Souza (Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University)


Registrations are now open at: https://www.politicsoflistening2018.com/register/


This conference will foreground the politics of listening as a vital intervention in contemporary scholarship, activism and practice.


Pushing beyond liberal celebrations of voice and speech, attention to listening has foregrounded a commitment to responsibility, responsiveness, vulnerability and openness.  Critical scholarship in this area has done important work to shift responsibility for change from marginalised voices onto the institutions, practices and norms that condition who is heard, on whose terms, and to what effect.  Scholars also draw attention to the difficult work of listening, its potential to unsettle, and its crucial role in disrupting the uneven flows of power and privilege invested in unjust social and political arrangements.



This conference brings together scholars and practitioners from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and the United Kingdom to critically engage with the politics of listening across a range of contexts and issues including: critical theories of listening; listening and settler colonialism; listening and the politics of difference; listening and the law; listening interventions in art and activism, and more.



Keynote speakers

Megan Davis (University of NSW, Sydney)

Leah Bassel (University of Roehampton, UK)



The conference is open to all and registration is free.  Visit https://www.politicsoflistening2018.com for draft programme, registration details and related events


Dr Tanja Dreher

ARC Future Fellow / Scientia Fellow / Associate Professor

School of Arts and Media

University of New South Wales


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