Past events

• 9 June 2026, 15:15-16:30

  Digital Oral Poetry: Voice and Subjectivity in Algorithmic Culture

  Online book launch by Vadim Keylin (Hamburg, DE), Colloquium Sound & Sensory Studies.

• 19 May 2026, 15:15-16:30

  A Sonic Grammar? Listening for Persistence at a Havana Intersection

  Talk by Pablo D. Herrera Veitia (Venice, IT), Colloquium Sound & Sensory Studies.

• 18 May 2026, 10:00-18:00

  Towards Critical Immersion Studies

  One day workshop with talks.

• 5 May 2026, 15:15-16:30

  Listening Nearby: Sonic Citizenship and Social Justice in Places of Detention

  Online book launch by Lucy Cathcart Frödén, Kate Herrity and Áine Mangaoang (Oslo, NO & Cambridge, UK), Colloquium Sound & Sensory Studies.

• 28 Apr. 2026, 15:15-17:00

  Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology, Tech, and Contemporary Biopower

  Talk by Robin James.

• 21 Apr. 2026, 15:15-16:30

  Sound, Reverence, and Black Aesthetic Creation

  Talk by Ruth Nicole Brown (East Lansing, US) and Emery Petchauer (New York, US) at Colloquium Sound & Sensory Studies.

• 10 Mar. 2026, 15:15-16:30

  Listening Yet-to-Come: Research Article Titles for Listening

  Talk by Lukas Lund (Copenhagen, DK), Colloquium Sound & Sensory Studies.

• 24 Feb. 2026, 15:15-16:30

  Interspecies communication and extractivist listening

  Talk by Yuri Tuma (Madrid, ES), Colloquium Sound & Sensory Studies.

• 10 Feb. 2026, 15:15-16:30

  Sonic Methodologies to Deepen and Interrupt Qualitative Research

  Talk by Walter Gershon (Philadelphia, US), Colloquium Sound & Sensory Studies.

• 2 Dec. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  The production of social space through sound: A social work perspective on the auditory dimension of social spaces

  Presenter: Anna Hampel (Hamburg, DE).

• 11 Nov. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Prepositional Listening

  Presenter: Jacob Eriksen (Struer, DK).

• 4 Nov. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Reconceptualising Sonic Home

  Presenter: Jacqueline Waldock (UK).

• 21 Oct. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Entangled Listening and Free Radio

  Presenter: Jacob Saheb (Nottingham, UK).

• 7 Oct. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Speculative Design for an AI Noise Machine: Signal, Noise, and the Aesthetics of Algorithmic Ambience

  Presenter: Paulus van Horne (Boulder, US).

• 23 Sept. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Studies of Air and Smoke: a framework

  Presenter: Thiago Leiros-Costa (Milano / Verona, IT).

• 3 June 2025, 13:30-17:30

  Ars Acustica Meeting 2025

  The EBU Ars Acustica group, which is meeting in Copenhagen on 3 June, is open to radio producers and all other specialists in this field, including practitioners, scholars, critics and aficionados.

• 20 May 2025, 15:15-16:30

  European Dance Music Cultures and Sound

  Presenter: Jack McNeill (University of York, UK).

• 22 Apr. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Sonic Probing: An Artistic Research Practice

  Presenter: Robert Willim (Lund University, SWE).

• 8 Apr. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Endangered Sounds: Participatory podcast and immersive mixing for political resistance in internal areas

  Presenter: Dario Galleana (University of Turin, IT).

• 25 Mar. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Sound Studies and Sonic Methodologies in Russia since the 2010s

  Presenter: Maksim Zhiganov.

• 11 Mar. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Auditory Asides: Listening Habits and Non-Linear Temporalities

  Presenter: Malcolm Troon (University of Sussex, UK).

• 25 Feb. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Voices as Relations

  Presenter: Jacek Smolicki (Uppsala University, SWE).

• 11 Feb. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  The Voice "in Action"

  Presentation by Katarzyna Ciemiera (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL).

• 3 Dec. 2024, 15:15-16:30

  The Voice "in Action"

  Presenter: Katarzyna Ciemiera (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL).

• 5 Nov. 2024, 15:15-16:30

  Reificating Noise Figures in Conceptual Spatiality: An Adequate Mode of “Listening“ to Noise

  Presenter: Adrian Brendstrup (MA, University of Copenhagen).

• 22 Oct. 2024, 15:15-16:30

  Carceral listening

  Presenter: Lucy Cathcart Frödén (Postdoc, University of Oslo, NOR).

• 8 Oct. 2024, 15:15-16:30

  Embracing Unnaturalness

  Presenter: Paulus van Horne (PhD, University of Boulder, Colorado, USA).

• 24 Sept. 2024, 15:15-16:30

  Multipolyphonies, Vibrational Affects, and Deep Listening

  Presenter: Walter S. Gershon (Rowan University,USA).

• 18 Sept. - 20 Sept. 2024

  How to Study Sound?

  An international conference with editors and contributors to The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Sound Studies.

• 21 May 2024, 15:15-16:30

  Kemmuna Nation: Is Nature Political?

  Presenter: Mario Asef (sound artist, Berlin)

• 7 May 2024, 15:15-16:30

  To Decompart(mentalize) Knowledge

  Presenter: Luca Forcucci.

• 23 Apr. 2024, 15:15-16:30

  Geopolitics of Music and Cultural Industries

  Presenter: Maria Rijo Lopes da Cunha (Copenhagen, DK)

• 9 Apr. 2024, 15:15-16:30

  Teaching Sounds in India - Some Notes on Sound Pedagogy

  Presenters: Shubhasree Bhattacharyya (Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India)

• 12 Mar. 2024, 15:15-16:30

  Mediated ficto-critical approaches for listening to creative sound studies

  Presenter: Gail Priest (Sydney/Katoomba, Australia)

• 27 Feb. 2024, 15:15-16:30

  Dramatised Performative Narrative: a novel method for composing electroacoustic music

  Presenter: Dimitris Savva (Cyprus University of Technology)

• 13 Feb. 2024, 15:15-16:30

  WHAT SOUNDS DO - Online Launch Event with Listening Sessions & Conversations with Contributors

  Presenters: Vita Zelenska, Emery Petchauer & Ruth Nicole Brown, Morten Poulsen, Francisco Mazza together with the co-editors Giada Dalla Bontà, Ania Mauruschat, Jenny Gräf Sheppard & Holger Schulze (KU).

• 5 Dec. 2023, 15:15-16:30

  Basta. Polyphonic phonetic compositions influenced by dialectical shifts in American Western English

  Presenter: Victoria Keddie (Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics Frankfurt, DE).

• 7 Nov. 2023, 15:15-16:30

  Nature Scores

  Presenter: Mareike Dobewall (Stockholm University of the Arts).

• 24 Oct. 2023, 15:15-16:30

  Sounding Crisis - Listening to Global Climate Change 2021-2023: An Interim Conclusion

  Presenter: Ania Mauruschat (University of Copenhagen).

• 10 Oct. 2023, 15:15-16:30

  Do Theremins Have Politics? Or: From the “Theremin of the Deaf” to the Bionic Sense of Hearing

  Presenter: David Friedrich (University of Western Australia).

• 26 Sept. 2023, 15:15-16:30

  MediSouP - Mediterranean Soundscape Projects

  Presenter: Yiannis Christidis (Cyprus University of Technology).

• 12 Sept. 2023, 15:15-16:30

  GRIEF - Sonic Expressions of Loss, Pain, and Sadness

  Presenter: Meri Kytö (University of Turku).

• 20 June 2023, 15:15-16:30

  Listening After Nature (New York: Bloomsbury Academic 2022)

  Presenter: Mark Peter Wright (University of the Arts London/UK).

• 6 June 2023, 15:15-16:30

  The Trans* Telephone Operator: Synthetic Voice, Gender and Identity

  Presenter: Paulus Van Horne (PhD researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder).

• 23 May 2023, 15:15-16:30

  Music at the Margins of Sense (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2023)

  Presenter: Jessica A. Holmes (University of Copenhagen).

• 14 Mar. 2023, 15:15-16:30

  Voice as a Matter of Design

  Presenter: Jonas Fritsch & Stina Hasse Jørgensen (ITU Copenhagen).

• 14 Feb. 2023, 15:15-16:30

  Approaching the Sonic Shimmer of Popular Music

  Presenter: Macon Holt (Copenhagen Business School).

• 13 Sept. - 16 Sept. 2022

  WHAT SOUNDS DO: New Directions in an Anthropology of Sound

  In this four-day conference, researchers from the Sound Studies Lab at UCPH and international scholars and artists invite you to explore questions of an anthropology of sound.

• 10 May 2022, 15:15-16:30

  The Gendered Microphone

  Collaborative workshop with Jo-Anne Velin as presenter.

• 26 Apr. 2022, 15:15-16:30

  Sonic Imagination: Visual Mental Imagery and Nomadism

  Collaborative workshop with Luca Forcucci as presenter.