[MGSA-L] Fwd: Cfp: International Conference ‘Soundscapes of Trauma: Music, Violence, Therapy’

[Antonis Hadjikyriacou]

*International Conference ‘Soundscapes of Trauma**: **Music, Violence,
Therapy’*

Athens, 24-25 May 2019  | Panteion University, Athens, Greece

Co-organized by the Research Platform Social Impact of Music Making,
Brussels

Titled *Soundscapes of Trauma*, this two-day interdisciplinary conference
explores negative and positive uses of music and sound in detention,
incarceration, and warfare. Music has been intrinsically linked with
repression, punishment, and warfare, as well as therapy and survival in
situations of detention, war, and conflict zones. Music torture and sonic
weapons are only a few examples that are by no means limited to
contemporary times. At the same time, there is a growing scholarship on the
beneficial effects of music in conflict and/or detention (such as prisons,
refugee camps, immigration centres), showing how it can bridge ethnic or
social differences, encouraging community building.

This conference encompasses a broad range of historical periods to
contemporary times. Case studies, histories, testimonies, and a wide scope
of theoretical and methodological approaches are invited. Exploration of
medical and legal aspects with regard to human rights violations are also
welcome, as are papers that focus on the traumatization of subjectivity,
challenges of survivor testimony, and the memorialization of trauma.

The conference is interdisciplinary, welcoming papers from across
disciplines including musicology, ethnomusicology, history, trauma studies,
social anthropology, medical humanities, human rights and international
law, and psychoanalysis. Practitioners, human rights organizations and
activists are invited to submit proposals, as the conference emphasizes the
pressing need for inter-sectoral dialogue between academics, researchers,
and practitioners working with survivors or detainees in prisons, refugee
camps, and immigration centres, among others. Topics may include:

·                Sound, music, war, and conflict

·                Soundscapes of detention

·                Music and ‘re-education’

·                Music, torture, justice

·                Music, sound, and human rights

·                Sound, trauma, memorialization

·                Music, traumatic memory, testimony

·                Music in prisons

·                Music in refugee camps

·                Music programmes in sites of detention

·                Music therapy for trauma survivors

The conference language will be English. Proposals for 20-minute individual
papers should be submitted in the form of a 250-word abstract accompanied
by a 100-word biographical note, contact information, and details of
professional affiliation; independent scholars are welcome to submit.
Proposals for panel sessions should include a 300-word statement explaining
the panel’s rationale as well as abstracts of each paper and biographical
notes of speakers. Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to Dr Anna
Papaeti at: soundscapes2019 at gmail.com by *Friday, 21 September 2018*.
Acceptance notifications will be sent by Friday, 2 November 2018.
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