<div dir="ltr">On behalf of Juan Fernando Velasquez<div>=============================</div><div><br></div><div><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><strong style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Call for Papers</span></strong><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><strong style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Resounding Spaces: Global Approaches to Music and Sound in Urban Contexts</span></strong><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><strong style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">A Cross-Disciplinary Conference</span></strong><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">University of Houston </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Moores School of Music, Dudley Recital Hall </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">March 27-28, 2026 </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Email: </span><a href="mailto:resoundingspaces@uofh.uh.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(74,110,224);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">resoundingspaces@uofh.uh.edu</span></a><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">KEYNOTE SPEAKER </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Alejandro Madrid, Harvard University </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">VISITING ARTIST </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Maria Chávez </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Hosted by the University of Houston, Moores School of Music </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Supported by a Mitchell Center Innovation Grant </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><em style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Resounding Spaces</span></em><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> invites interdisciplinary engagement with musical and sonic practices that shape, and are shaped by, the material, political, and affective textures of global urban contexts. We are seeking probing reflections on </span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">the ways in which</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> music and sound participate in producing, contesting, and reimagining urban life around the world; as well as explorations of sonic and musical practices that reveal, disrupt, or reconfigure urban dynamics. We encourage diverse methodological approaches, including critical theory, ethnography, archival work, community-engaged research, and creative or practice-based inquiry. </span><em style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Resounding Spaces</span></em><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> aims to foster interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dialogue, emphasizing the generative potential of music and sound in understanding and reshaping urban society. </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Basic questions the conference aims to address include: How does music, sound, and noise shape our global urban experience? How does what we </span><em style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">hear</span></em><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> work to shape us into who we </span><em style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">are</span></em><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> individually, locally, and as a </span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">global</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> community? How does sound work for us, or against us? These questions are becoming increasingly </span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">important</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> for understanding our sociopolitical experience. As of 2024, 58% of the </span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">world’s</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> population – some 4.4 billion people – live in urban areas, a figure projected by the United Nations to reach 68% by mid-century. This dramatic global shift signals a future increasingly shaped by urban life: dynamic, coeval, and intricately interconnected. Amid this transformation, </span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">urban</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> areas have become central to conversations about the Anthropocene, postmodernity, and socio-environmental crises, manifested through gentrification, migration, economic disparity, inequality, public safety, and climate vulnerability.  </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Ideas surrounding the interconnectedness of urban experience with music, sound, and noise follow Henri </span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Lefebvre’s</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> notion of space as a product and producer of social relations and power structures and draw on Yi-Fu </span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Tuan’s</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> concepts of</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> “</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">affective memory</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">” </span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">and </span><em style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">topophilia</span></em><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> in place-making. Scholars such as Natalia Bieletto and Leonardo Cardoso have emphasized the role of sound in mediating institutional logics, enabling resistance, and opening avenues for civic expression. Yet despite these critical interventions, music and sound remain underexamined aspects of research about urban topics.  </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">We welcome proposals for 20-minute individual papers and for organized panels (3–4 papers) from music studies and across the </span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">wider</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> arts, humanities, and social sciences, including (but not limited to): musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, sound studies, urban studies, anthropology, cultural geography, history, performance studies, dance, film/tv/media studies, linguistics, theater, sociology, architecture, visual arts, and climate studies. Selected proceedings from the conference may appear in an edited volume. </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><strong style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to</span></strong><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">: </span></p><ul style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li style="margin-left:15px;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Global approaches to urban music </span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">and[</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">/</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">or]</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> sound </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Urban soundscapes and everyday listening </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Noise, regulation, and sonic governance </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Music, gentrification, and spatial justice </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Global musicology and urban contexts </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Sonic representations of difference and privilege </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Musicking and public space </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Listening as </span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">method</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> in urban research </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Global adaptations of and responses to urban music genres </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Art and performance engaging urban sound </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Sound, infrastructure, and urban planning </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Sonic ecologies and environmental crises </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Music or sound art that (re)</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">imagine</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> urban spaces </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Urban memory and sonic affect </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Acoustic territoriality and sound-based conflict </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Reimagining urban futures through sound </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;list-style-type:disc"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Social media, streaming platforms, and the global circulation of music and sound </span></li></ul><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Please submit your abstract or panel proposal of 250-300 words to the </span><a href="https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=vboLF_CikEytSw6PDwxCWQ1AGP9qSUtDsRiL7aGuTeRUMDQ5QVA3SUpIT0w0NjhZT0pERlJQNkhHSS4u&route=shorturl" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(74,110,224);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Resounding Spaces Conference Submission Form</span></a><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">. You will also </span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">be asked</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> to provide your name, any audio/visual requirements, and your contact information.</span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">See the Resounding Spaces Conference website for more information: </span><a href="https://www.resoundingspacesuh.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(74,110,224);background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">https://www.resoundingspacesuh.wordpress.com</span></a><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">CONFERENCE CO-ORGANIZERS </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Damjan Rakonjac (Assistant Professor of Musicology) </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Ji Yeon Lee (Associate Professor of Music Theory) </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Juan Fernando Velasquez (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology) </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Kathryn Caton (Lecturer of Musicology) </span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">In advance, thank you for your time.</span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Best regards,</span></p><p style="background:transparent;color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Juan</span></p></div></div>