On Thursday, Oct. 9, at 12:15 PM, David Novak will give a talk entitled "The Ghost World of Bollywood" in the Heyman Center Common Room (East Campus).

David Novak is a Fellow of the Columbia Society for Fellows in the Humanities, and holds the PhD in ethnomusicology from Columbia University.

Listening In, Feeding Back

Organizers:
David Novak, Columbia University, Society of Fellows in the Humanities
den12@columbia.edu
Ana Maria Ochoa, Columbia University, Department of Music
ao2110@columbia.edu

Description:
In recent years, several academic disciplines, including history, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and media studies, have devoted significant attention towards practices of listening. The act of listening is undoubtedly an underexplored dimension of modern sensory experience -- and of modernity itself, which is too often characterized by an overdetermined regime of visuality. What can listening offer to emerging interdisciplinary work on perception, performance, aesthetics, social life, and the circulation of sound media?  read more »

David Novak will offer a talk entitled “No Source, No Signal: Global Media Circulation and the Cultural Meanings of Noise” as part of The Society of Fellows Fall Luncheon Lecture Series.

Lunch will be provided.

The Society for Ethnomusicology's 52nd annual SEM Conference will take place October 24th - 28th at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. This year's theme is Music, War and Reconcilliation.

A complete list of presenters and other participants from Columbia University follows.  read more »