Ear-Witness
International Symposium
Tuesday 25 February 2025 : 10:00am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 26 February 2025 : 10:00am - 4:00pm
Campus HEAD
Bât.H, Design Room
Av. de Châtelaine 7,
1203 Genève
PROGRAMME
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TUESDAY, 25 February 2025
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- 10:00 Welcome and Introduction
Gene Ray (HEAD-Genève, Hes-so & NHRF, Athens)
Anna Papaeti (NHRF, Athens)
- 10:30–12:30 Session 1: On Sound and Migration
Chair: Stefanos Levidis (NHRF & Forensic Architecture Initiative, Athens)
Nelli Kambouri (NHRF & Panteion University, Athens)
Listening to Migration
Eva Matsigkou (NHRF, Athens & Aristotle University, Thessaloniki)
Disguised as a Recorder: Reflective Practices in Documenting Migrant Women’s Stories
Chiara Eva Lanfranchi (Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies)
The Sonic Politics of the Everyday within the Swiss Asylum System
Discussants
Hannah Entwisle Chapuisat (Independent Disaster Displacement Specialist, Geneva)
Çağla Aykaç (HEAD-Genève, Hes-so)
- 12:30–14:30 Lunch Break
- 14:30–16:30 Session 2: On Sonic Violence
Chair: Luis Velasco-Pufleau (University of Bern)
Caline Matar (Earshot, UK)
Sound as Scrap: Sonic Investigations into Violence
Anna Papaeti (NHRF, Athens)
Sonic Violence and the Definition of Torture
Discussants
Pierre Hazan (Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva)
Steven J. Barela (University of Geneva)
Luis Velasco-Pufleau (University of Bern)
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WEDNESDAY, 26 February 2025
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- 10:00-12:00 Session 3 : On Climate and Biospheric Crisis
Chair: Nelli Kambouri (NHRF & Panteion University, Athens)
Stefanos Levidis (NHRF & Forensic Architecture Initiative, Athens)
Sounding Border Natures
Gene Ray (HEAD-Genève, Hes-so & NHRF, Athens)
Late Listening: A Planetary Concept
Discussants
Umut Yildirim (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Diana Rizzolio (Geneva Environmental Network)
Verónica Ruiz Garcia (International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN)
- 12:00-14:00 Lunch
- 14:00-16:00 Round Table
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This event has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 101002720, PI: Anna Papaeti).
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