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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Please join us this Friday, October 22, for the second meeting of
Sensing the Unseen, a seminar series to discuss current scholarship on the
sensory and media modes that people employ to access realms of existence and
experience outside the immediately visible. <br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>All seminar meetings are free and open to the public - no registration
is required. <br>
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<a href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/species/elusive.html">The Elusive: Listening</a><br
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Friday, October 22, 2:30-5:00 pm <br>
@ MIT 56-114 (<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=56">Whitaker Building #56</a>,
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Speakers: Steven Feld and Hillel Schwartz<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Discussants: Wayne Marshall (MIT) and Jimena Canales (Harvard) <br
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Steven Feld, Acoustemologies</span><u1:p></u1:p></b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Listening to histories of listening, encountering sound as a way of
knowing (that is, as an acoustemology), and recounting practices of recording
and playback as dialogic auditing, Steven Feld will give a tour of such
encounters in rainforest New Guinea, pastoral Europe, and urban Ghana in order
to pose questions about the ways sonic ephemerality and materiality become one.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Hillel Schwartz, Cross Polytopes &
Octaphons More Agreeable: Toward A Taxonomy of Sounds All Around But Not Quite
There<br clear=all>
</span></b>One-line teaser: Bombard the notion of surround-sound until it
bursts, then listen to what happens.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>A Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures to be held at MIT
in 2010-2011, Sensing the Unseen is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
and hosted by MIT Anthropology. Our website provides more details, including
upcoming seminars: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/">http://web.mit.edu/unseen/</a>
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Maps & directions to the Sensing the Unseen seminar can be found here: <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/directions.html">http://web.mit.edu/unseen/directions.html</a><br>
Sign up to receive email reminders about upcoming seminars: <a
href="https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/unseen_list">https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/unseen_list</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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