Next Friday, September 26th, there’s a new date for the Listening and Posthumanism talk series organized by NIMSE. This time, the guest speaker is Alejandro Castillejo Cuéllar, an academic and anthropologist at the University of Los Andes in Colombia, who will give the talk “Indigenous Listening: Trees as Subjects of Pain.” The event will be held remotely and can be connected via Zoom upon prior registration.

The Colombian professor states by way of introduction: “In this proposal, I situate myself on the margins of the humanocentrism of transnational justice. I propose a broader reflection on the dislocations of human and more-than-human experiences at the boundaries between the audible and the inaudible (and, therefore, the conditions of audibility for the “voice” of a wounded nature to emerge or be imagined), while exploring the idea of ​​restoring dialogue with the river forest as a kind of restorative listening practice in Colombia. This is, to a certain extent, a posthumanist perspective on transnational justice and a sonic interpellation of society at large.”

The series of talks, which brings together specialists on the topic “Listening and Posthumanism,” is an initiative of the Music, Sound, and Listening Research Center and Fodnecyt 11240463, “From Sound to Listening: Theories and Methods in Aurality Studies,” led by CMUS research associate Natalia Bieletto.

The Universidad Mayor academic comments on the series as follows: “In recent years, there has been a growing concern about how humans establish and use sound to establish relationships, communicate, and listen to non-human and more-than-human species and entities. These ontopolitical relationships have a sonic dimension and depend on the deployment of different acoustemologies, situated in history, culture, and territory. This series of talks invites specialists in these topics to engage with the NIMSE Studies group on this type of listening.”

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Alejandro Castillejo Cuéllar:”Indigenous Listening: Trees as Subjects of Pain”

Friday, September 26th
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.