Next Monday, October 27, Natalia Bieletto will give the lecture “Sounds and social justice: integration through listening processes” at the Campus Claustro Auditorium of the Universidad Mayor.

The CMUS research associate comments on the talk as follows: This talk addresses the topic of listening, understanding it as a relational and situated process, and relates it to specific processes of social (in)justice that have occurred and still exist today in Latin American territory. My interest in reflecting on listening as a work of memory and justice arose from witnessing in recent years an intensification of a certain type of sound activism that responds to the many urgencies of the present time. While the practices of activism, archiving, and remembrance through musical composition or the design of sound artifacts that have served as memorials are not new, in recent years I have observed in the aural public sphere an intensification of the intention to “make people hear”; that is, to provoke a type of listening among civil society at large, capable of stirring emotions related to histories of injustice and traumatic memories.

Natalia Bieletto’s Lecture

Monday 27th, 09:30 a 12:10 hrs.

Centro de Investigación en Artes y Humanidades.
Auditorio Campus Claustro. (Sala K).
Universidad Mayor (Portugal 351, Santiago centro)