2024 May 3 (Fri) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | (In-Person) | Kang Room (S050), Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.

How Sounds Shape Thought - Five Experiments in Scholarly Communication

Speaker: DAVID ATHERTON, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Speaker: MICHELLE HAUK, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (PhD Modern Japanese History, Columbia University, 2023)

Speaker: SHIGEHISA KURIYAMA, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History and Director, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University

Speaker: TOMIKO YODA, Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities, Harvard University

Speaker: ALEXANDER ZAHLTEN, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Moderator: SHIGEHISA KURIYAMA, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History and Director, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University

Please note that this is an in-person only event.

This event is part of a new Japan Forum series tied to the theme “The Soundtrack of Thought,” motivated by the idea that while sounds are occasionally the object of academic presentations (e.g., the analysis of a musical piece) they are hardly ever integrated into the presentation itself, shaping the cognitive affect of a talk in the way that they do – often quite powerfully and effectively – in recorded podcasts, movies, or occasionally art installations. The aim of the new series is to explore the following questions: How might an academic presentation incorporate not just live speech and the display of images and text, but also sounds (from daily life, music, voices, etc.)? How can sounds work not only as the objects of analysis, but as part of the atmospheric frame within which speech and images are understood? Ultimately, the goal of this series is to discover new horizons of presentation through playful experimentation with sound.

THIS EVENT TOOK PLACE IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2023-24

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How Sounds Shape Thought - Five Experiments in Scholarly Communication