Speaking
For inquiries about speaking engagements and media appearances: contact@mactrasound.com
Selected Appearances
Intermedial Sounding: Conversations on Race, Media, and the Senses. Invited Workshop Participant, Dartmouth College, May 19-21, 2025.
“The End of Listening.” Keynote Talk, Residual Noise Conference, Brown University. April 4, 2025.
“Resonance: Sound Across the Disciplines,” Invited Seminar Lead, Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University. March 26, 2025.
“The End of Listening.” Invited Talk, Unsound Festival, Krakow, Poland. October 1, 2024.
“Mapping Tinnitus.” Invited Panelist, Unsound Festival, Krakow, Poland. October 1, 2024.
“Canceling Noise: Dreams and Dangers.” Invited Talk, University of Maryland Baltimore County, April 19, 2023.
“A Cultural History of Noise.” Invited talk, The Institute for Learning in Retirement, Oxford, Ohio. October 17, 2022.
Keynote Talk, “Differentiating Sound Studies: Politics of Sound and Listening.” Music Research Center of Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. April 14-5, 2022.
“Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control.” Invited talk, Antioch College. March 2, 2020.
“Orphic Media and the Crisis of Listening.” Invited talk. Department of Media, Culture, & Communication, New York University. February 6, 2020.
“Pressing Play: Audio Media and Sonic Self-Control.” Invited talk. Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, University of Tulsa. October 10, 2019.
“Taking Literature beyond Words through Audio Production.” Workshop, Department of Comparative Literature, State University of New York, Binghamton. April 12, 2019.
“Sonic Self-Control: From Greek Myth to Beats Headphones.” Invited talk, Department of Comparative Literature, State University of New York, Binghamton. April 11, 2019.
“Beats, Bose and the Politics of Listening.” Invited talk, The Center for American Music, University of Texas, Austin. March 28, 2019.
“Beats, Bose and the Politics of Headphones.” Invited talk, Department of Cinematic Arts, University of Iowa. March 1, 2019.
“Phantom Power: Doing Sound Studies ‘Out Loud.’” Invited talk, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa. February 27, 2019.
“Bose, Beats, and the Politics of Listening.” Invited talk, Communication Colloquium Series, Denison University, Granville, OH, December 6, 2018.
“Orphic Media in Literature and Popular Culture.” Invited panelist, “Rock, Literature, and Technology,” Novel Sounds: American Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, October 14, 2016.
“Haunted Hearing: Phantom Sound and the Homeostatic Body.” Invited talk. Composing the Tinnitus Suites, a collaborative performance by Daniel Fishkin, Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Philadelphia, October 2, 2016.
“A Non-Linear History of Sound and Space.” Invited talk, UIC School of Architecture Lecture Series, University of Illinois, Chicago, April 18, 2016.
“Research Agendas for Digital Audio.” Invited talk, Media Arts and Sciences Speaker Series, Indiana University, October 5, 2012.
“Audio-Spatial Media: Reshaping Sound, Space, Self, and Sociality.” Invited talk, Social Media Collective, Microsoft Research New England, June 2012.
“Sonic Technologies of the Self.” Invited talk, Miami University Department of Communication, January 25, 2012.
“QuietComfort: Noise, Otherness, and the Mobile Production of Personal Space.” Virginia L. Gunderson Lecture, Indiana University Department of Communication and Culture, September 2011.