BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1c4d23d50104a2548bce6afc04b3a4ad DTSTAMP:20260902T174855Z SUMMARY:The Sound of Democracy Dying: Listening Sessions DESCRIPTION:Contact: sylvia.lysko@iac.lu.se\n\nWhen: 17:00–19:00\, Thursd ay 3 september \;Where: Red Room\, Inter Arts Center\, Bergsgatan 29 i MalmöThe purpose of the Listening Sessions is to bring together sound ar tists and researchers from different traditions to share and reflect on au dio work from their varied projects that explore threats and challenges to democracy from the perspective of sound:Ellie Armon Azoulay is a Leverhul me Early Career Fellow in the Department of English Studies at Durham Univ ersity\, UK. She is also a DJ\, curator and cultural historian whose work focuses on archives of music and photography\, exploring diasporic communi ties\, music collecting\, and cultures of protest and resistance. She is c ompleting her first book\, Reclaiming the Lore: African American Music Col lectors.Robert Willim is an artist and Associate Professor of Digital Cult ures at Lund University. His work explores imaginaries\, media-related pra ctices and human experiences of technology\, and his most recent book is e ntitled Mundania: How and Where Technologies are Made Ordinary.Carla J. Ma ier (Humboldt University of Berlin) and Eleni-Ira Panourgia (Lund Universi ty) will share a collaborative project. Maier \;works at the intersect ion of sound studies\, cultural anthropology and postcolonial studies and is the author of Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation. Panourgia is a sound artist and \;Assistan t Professor in Artistic Research and AI at Malmö Theatre Academy.A closin g discussion will be led by a panel of expert listeners:Sima Wolgast is do cent in psychology at Lund University whose research focuses on \;inte grating psychological and psychotherapeutic knowledge across diverse conte xts\, including the performing arts.Lucy Cathcart Frödén is a researcher on the LISTEN project at Malmö University and her work investigates  \;the role of artistic collaboration in social change.The Listening Sessio ns event is open to the public and to researchers from any and all traditi ons\, who may contribute to the discussion or attend in a purely listening capacity. \;Visit the Sound Environment Centre for more information.\ n\nMore information about the event: https://www.iac.lu.se/calendar/sound- democracy-dying-listening-sessions DTSTART;TZID=GMT:20260903T150000 DTEND;TZID=GMT:20260903T170000 LOCATION:Inter Arts Center\, Bergsgatan 29\, Malmö\, 4th floor (Red Room) END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR