Day 2: The 27th Biennial St. Louis Symposium on German Literature and Culture
Scholars from Europe and the United States, graduate students, members of the university community, and all others interested were encouraged to attend.
Archiving the Sounds of German Cultures: A Century of Collection, Curation, and Creative Practice
Archiving the Sounds of German Cultures explores how the recording and documentation of sound has shaped German cultures and their narratives from the early twentieth century to the present. Featuring the work of ground-breaking artists and leading experts on this topic from the fields of history, media studies, music, art history, and literature, this symposium examines the practice of sound archiving not only as material preservation but also as re-formation: the use of archival sound as source material and inspiration for creative practice.
Saturday, March 28
Danforth University Center, Room 276
9:30-11:00 AM
SESSION 5: Postwar Sonic Histories
Moderator: André Fischer, Washington University in St. Louis
Joy Calico, University of California, Los Angeles: “Sounding the Archives of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD with Joan La Barbara”
Seth Howes, University of Missouri: “Bestandsaufnahme/Aufnahmebestände: Listening to National Socialism in Three Post-Fascist
Republics”
11:30-1:00 PM
SESSION 6: Film Sound as Archival Practice
Moderator: Themba Mbatha, Washington University in St. Louis
Maria Fuchs, University of Graz: “Witnessing Sounds, Listening to Africa: The Forensics of Colonial Film and Its Archives”
Hester Baer, University of Maryland: “Listening in on Historical Futures: Feminist Countercinema and the Archiving of Sound”
2:00-3:30 PM
SESSION 7: Sound, Politics, and the Environment
Moderator: Zach Feldman, Goethe-Institut New York
Claudia Breger, Columbia University: “The Sounds of Social Struggle”
Lutz Koepnick, Vanderbilt University: “The Memory of Water: Sound, Listening and the Rights of Nature”
4:00- 5:00 PM
LISTENING TO THE ARCHIVE - CLOSING EVENT FOR SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS
Sponsored by:
Department of Comparative Literature and Thought, Washington University in St. Louis
The Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Washington
Goethe Institut Chicago
Goethe Institut New York
Live and Mediated Performance Faculty Research Seminar supported by the Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis.
Department of African and African American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis