'Contested Resonances' Virtual Conference 29-30 July 2021

Contested Resonances: Creativity, Listening and Performance in Conflict Transformation

Our interdisciplinary Conference was hosted virtually online by the Senator George, J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast. It examined conflict and post-conflict contexts through sound in performative practice.

Themes included: peacebuilding efforts by music-based community arts initiatives; sonic-arts and theatrical re-soundings of conflict; creative and musical interventions in conflict and post-conflict societies; sound-based methodologies for exploring the narratives and everyday experiences of people in post-conflict contexts. Thank you to everyone who joined us and took part.

*All Participants' Presentationsn can be viewed here:

The Cellist of Sarajevo and Other Stories - Emeritus Professor Nigel Osborne MBE

Happenings and the Space between Vibrations: Planned and Unplanned Resonances - Kiyomi Muro, Dr Olivier Urbain and Darren Ferguson

Peace Wall Belfast: Spatial Audio Representations of Divided Spaces and Soundwalks - Georgios Varoutsos

Cucusonic: Translating post-Tropical Forest Bio-Diversity in Colombia into New Music - Dr Rupert Cox, Juan C. Arredondo, Alejandro Valencia-Tobon and Alejandro Valderrama Herrera, Ana Maria Gomez and Danny Zurc

Blanket Sounds: An Accoustemological Account of Immersive Audio and Memory - Adi Laflamme

Music of Ethnic Violence and Genocide: A Teenager's Video Project about Armenia - Dr Rina Schiller

Traces of Conflict: An Exploration of Absence, Silence and Sound - Professor Maruška Svašek

Sounding Conflict Project: Sound Art Installation - Professor Pedro Rebelo

Engaging Digitally with Young People in Marginalised and Conflicted Settings: The Potential of Music and Arts-based Methodologies for Enabling Participation - Dr Edwar Calderón and Dr Marlies Kustatscher

Spectacle and Audience Particpation: An Intersensorial Analysis of Musicking in the Peace Proms Show - Sinéad Lynch

The Sound of Reconciliation: Music and Sociocultural Harmony inthe Sri Lanka Norway Music Co-operation (2009 - 218) - Dr Solveig Korum

Sounding Citizenship: Nostaliga and Sonic Belonging within 'Celebrating Syria' - Benedict Turner-Berry

Vocalising Solidarity: King sunny Ade and the Pursuit for Peace in Nigerla - Femi Omotoyinbo and Gloria Adiche

The Sun is Open: A Reading - Dr Gail McConnell

Toward an informed Strategy of Art for Reconciliation - Dr Alexander Coupe

Imaging Together Platform for Arts, Culture and Conflict Transformation (IMPACT) - Dr Cynthia Cohen, Dr Toni Shapiro-Phim and Armine Avetisyan

Participants' Biogs, Abstracts and details of the Programme are avilable to download in the Conference Booklet.

*Please note, all presentations are for academic and research viewing purposes only and cannot be posted in the public domain or used in part or full on any other media platforms or social media sites. All rights are reserved and held by Participants. For more information regarding licensing/permisssions usage and queries, please contact our Project Manager, Christina Captieux c.captieux@qub.ac.uk

The Conference was organised as part of the AHRC/ESRC funded Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security Research project Sounding Conflict: From Resistance to Reconciliation 2017-2021.

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