This Thursday, November 13th and Friday, November 14th, the Study Days will take place at the Universidad Mayor. Beyond discourse. Social listening, methods and challenges which is coordinated by Natalia Bieletto, a research associate at CMUS and professor at Universidad Mayor, and Sandra Vera Gajardo, a professor at Universidad Alberto Hurtado. International guests will include Alejandro Castillejo Cuéllar and Juan Ángel Agudelo from Colombia, Maryam Adja from the United States, and Salvador Brioso from Mexico. The Chilean participants come from diverse institutions and disciplines within the humanities, enriching the dialogue with a wide range of perspectives.

The event’s abstract poses these questions: What, then, is listening? How do we do it? What technologies, mediation mechanisms, and institutions facilitate or hinder listening? Who is most likely to be heard, and for what reasons? What is the role of listening, or the lack thereof, in the generation, management, and resolution of conflicts? Who are the social agents involved? How does listening affect and shape bodies, mindsets, and intersubjective and intercultural relationships? How has “aural labor” (Ochoa Gatier, 2014) been distributed to grant or deny social participation? How have different epistemologies of listening been marginalized both historically and in the present day? Read or download the full program below: Programa de Jornada de estudio_Más allá del discurso

Study sessions Beyond discourse. Social listening, methods and challenges

Thursday, November 13th

10 pm: Welcome and Introduction: Coordinators Natalia Bieletto-Bueno and Sandra Vera

10.30 pm Coffee Break

11 pm: Panel of Experts: Listening to Record
-Alejandro Castillejo Cuéllar (UniAndes) – “The Truth and Justice Commission as a Listening Mechanism”
-Oriana Bernasconi (PUC) – “Listening to the Archives of Violence in Other Ways: Sensitive Indices and Archival Effects”

13:00: Lunch time

3 pm: Panel 2: Politicization of Listening/Making People Heard

-Natalia Bieletto-Bueno (UMayor): “Politicization of listening. Sonic practices and listening provocations”

-Javier Osorio (UAH): “Listening operations in the archive. Documentary and sound technologies”

4 pm: Panel 3: Listening and memory

-Magdalena Bustamante (Independiente)– “Resonances of trauma: aurality, absences and reconfiguration of collective memories”

-Tamara Vidaurrazaga Aránguiz (UAHC)- “‘That’s not talked about’; The question of decipherability in the memoirs of sons and daughters of militants of the new left (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay)”

-Juan Ángel Agudelo (UniAndes): “On poisoned knowledge and the habitability of pain”

 

Friday, November 14th,

10 pm: Panel 4: Listen, echoes and silences

-Diego Cruz (UCH): “Regarding (masculine) silence as disengagement: where and how do we hear omission?

-Sandra Vera (UAH): “Social Listening of Feminism: Vibrations, Echoes, and Distortions in Contemporary Politics”

-Maryam Adjam (UU): “Listening with traces. The afterlife of the missing”

11:15 pm: Panel 5:Listening infrastructures

-Salvador Brioso (UAM-C)–“Listening to the testimonies of crime victims as a form of state-filtered eavesdropping”

-Fernando Valenzuela (UNAB)-“What does a database sound like? Information infrastructures as social listening technologies”

12.30 pm: Coffee Break

1pm: Round table: Listening problem and interdisciplinarity

Coordinate: Sandra Vera Gajardo and Natalia Bieletto-Bueno

14:00 Closing remarks and acknowledgments

Lunch break

*Associate projects:
-Fondecyt 11240463 – From Sound to Listening. Theories and Methods in Aural Studies.”. IR. Natalia Bieletto Bueno
-Fondecyt Regular 1251959 – “Knowledge Infrastructures and Regimes of State Intervention Of Disappeared Persons: A Latin American Study of DisappearedPersons National Search Plans”. IR: Oriana Bernasconi.
-Anillos “Dissonances: Community, university and feminist irruption”. IP: Sandra Vera.
-Millennium Nucleus in Musical and Sound Cultures. NCS2022_016.