International Conference of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, Koli, Finland June 16-19, 2010
Conference web page: www.joensuu.fi/soundscapes
Note:
- the starting day of the conference has changed
- the last day to send abstracts has changed
Call for papers (see also below)
Please send ABSTRACTS (max. 400 words) to FSAE by October 12th, 2009 to the e-mail address koli@akueko.com.
The abstracts are being dealt with in early November, and the people whose papers and sonic art works are chosen to be presented will be notified on November 10.
Registration
Among other things you can find the registration form with payment options (also with credit cards) on the new web page. You can also tick and reserve your hotel accommodation on the same registration form.
Accommodation
We have reserved 75 rooms from the Sokos Hotel Koli for the four nights between June 16 -20, 2010. The prices are 91 euros per night / person in a single room or 55,50 euros per night / person in a double room. You can tick and reserve your hotel accommodation on the registration form (soon available at the conference web-page) so you don’t have to contact the hotel yourself. However, you can take a look at the hotel web-page at http://www.sokoshotelkoli.fi/.
If you wish to reserve other than hotel accommodation (cottages), please contact our conference service director, Ms Arja Hukkanen at Arja.Hukkanen@kareliaexpert.fi
After conference trip
After the official program, between June 20-21 , there will be organised a one and a half day trip across the border to Russia, to the beautiful monastery island Old Valaam. The price of the trip is not yet confirmed; this will be affirmed in September (not included to the registration fee).
Arriving to Joensuu
The best connections to Joensuu are from Helsinki. You can reach Joensuu by plane from Helsinki-Vantaa airport. There is also a direct train connection from Helsinki to Joensuu (appr. 5 hours). From Joensuu the conference will organize a free bus transportation to Koli (70 km) on June 16th and back to Joensuu after the conference.
http://www.kareliaexpert.fi/en/transportation/
http://www.fc.fi/
CALL FOR PAPERS
‘Ideologies and Ethics in the Uses and Abuses of Sound’
The 2010 WFAE conference will be held at Koli in Eastern Finland. Koli is a plausible site for reflecting upon ideologies, ethics and soundscapes, since it was amongst the key places of the national romantic artist pilgrims in the late 19th century Finland. The Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology (FSAE) invites researchers and artists from all disciplines to join this forum of discussion.
Proposals are invited for papers, workshops, roundtable, or artistic contributions relating to, but not limited to the following topics:
Nations, nationalism and soundscape
There has been an abundance of research on the topic of nationalism and music. What about nationalism and soundscape? Within sound of religious movements Martin Stokes mentioned recently that in order to understand certain Islamic movements today it would be crucial to understand their soundscapes. Collective listening or giving ‘voices’ to subjects and their religious experiences, are some examples.
Constructing past and progress in the uses and abuses of sound
Both past and progress can be used and abused as part of many ideologies. Have past soundscapes been used as a resource as part of these negotiations? The ideology of progress, then, is intimately related to the acceptance of noise as an inevitable phenomenon.
Ethical challenges of working with the sounds
How do soundscape researchers and artists answer to the ethical challenges of working with the sounds of other people – and of themselves. How do we understand cultural convergences, differences and sameness? Or would it just be more important to learn to tolerate the other? Should the researcher or artist make an intervention -- or would it be best just to observe the uses and abuses of sounds from outside?
The commodification of aural space, sound and silence
How does silence, its commodification and tourism fit under the same sky? What kind of strategies can the citizens and planners develop in different localities in order to guarantee the soundscape comfort, tourism as a means of livelihood and the touristic search of silence all at the same time? What about the urban environment with its ubiquitous transphonic phenomena? Who has the right to fill the urban space with music, and how is it currently happening?
Please send ABSTRACTS (max. 400 words) to FSAE by October 12, 2009 to the e-mail address koli@akueko.com.
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