An online symposium sponsored by the Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music (HISAM)
Date: Friday, November 14th
Location: Online
Time: 3:00-6:30 pm EST
The Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music (HISAM) at CUNY presents “Resonant Futures: Music, Climate Change, and Global Resilience,” a virtual symposium exploring how music engages with the urgent realities of environmental transformation. This event brings together scholars, artists, and activists examining the ways sound and musical practice amplify community resilience, mobilize environmental justice movements, and articulate resistance in the face of ecological crisis.
Through interdisciplinary dialogue and creative presentation, Resonant Futures invites audiences to consider how music functions as both an archive and an action—documenting the lived experiences of displacement, migration, and activism while also inspiring new imaginings of ecological balance and solidarity.
This year’s symposium features a keynote presentation by Tyler Yamin (Bucknell University), whose work examines “sonic NIMBYism”—how communities weaponize sound and notions of “noise” to maintain social, racial, and ecological hierarchies. Yamin shows how local resistance to animal sounds reflects deeper colonial, capitalist, and biopolitical structures that determine whose lives and voices are valued.
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