Join us at 12:00pm on the second floor of the Neubauer Collegium on Friday, Nov 20, to discuss reactions to the first panel of the Voice Conference, “Staging the Voice,” in conjunction with ch 2 of Mladen Dolar’s A Voice and Nothing More, “The Metaphysics of the Voice.” The Dolar reading is available through the library.
A Voice as Something More
An International Conference
Free and open to the public.
The conference will be held in multiple locations; please refer to the conference webpage for details.
Friday, November 20 – Sunday, November 22
The international conference A Voice as Something More will act as a staging ground for a rethinking of voice studies in the year 2015.
The conference will mark the coming of age of voice studies, from a psychoanalytically-oriented philosophical approach to a collection of material, grounded, and embodied approaches that find in voice something more substantial. Papers will deal with recorded sound, Jamaican popular singing, ventriloquized voice, screaming, ownership and essentializing of voice, singing versus speaking, Chinese voice theory, vocal mimicry, poetic voice, opera, voice in Japanese kabuki, and cinematic voice, among other approaches.
This conference grows out of the Neubauer faculty research seminar “The Voice Project.” The seminar was initiated in 2013 by an interdisciplinary group of faculty members who have trained their attention on the problem that different disciplines assemble radically different interests under the single rubric of voice, from Derridean deconstructionist philosophy to Lacanian psychoanalysis, from the techno-materialism of cinema and media studies to the physico-materialism of music studies and the cross-culturalism of anthropology and area studies. Read more >>
The keynote lecture will be delivered by French film theorist and composer Michel Chion in the Film Studies Center, Cobb Hall 307, on
Friday, November 20 at 5:00pm. Opening remarks will be given by Tom Gunning, Professor of Art History and Cinema and Media Studies.
View the complete conference agenda with locations at:http://neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/events/uc/a_voice_conference/
Presented by the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Department of Music, with additional support from the Departments of Germanic Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, Classics, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Japan Committee and China Committee of the Center for East Asian Studies, the Center for Theater and Performance Studies, the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, and the Film Studies Center.