I am Chair of the Department of Art History and Communication Studies. I am teaching COMS 210: Introduction to Communication Studies. Otherwise, I am hard at work on sabbatical applications, a pile of essays and a sound studies reader while I eagerly await reviewers’ comments on my manuscript MP3: the Meaning of a Format.
9 October, “Digital Audio: A Feline History,” Communication Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston.
12 October, “The MP3 as Standard Object: Infrastructure, Software and the Politics of Media Culture,” Infrastructure lecture series, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
7 November, “Bell Labs’ Industrial Imperatives and the Meaning of Hearing in the 20th Century,” Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Montreal.
2010
16 February, keynote lecture (title TBA), “Discourses of Music, Sound, and Film: A Meeting of the Disciplines”, University of Texas-Austin.
19 February (or thereabouts), Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies, University of Texas-Austin.
17-21 June, Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Hong Kong (tentative)
22-26 June, International Communication Association, Singapore (tentative)
August, Rio de Janeiro. Details TBA.
Jonathan Sterne
“serious research leads one to unite what is ordinarily separated or to distinguish what is ordinarily confused.”
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