Call: Sonic Futures: Soundscapes and the Languages of Screen
Media  The European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS)
has just published their call for papers and panels for the 2011
conference (23. June 2011 – 26. June 2011) that will take place
in London, hosted by Birkbeck and King’s College, University of
London. The theme is  “Sonic Futures: Soundscapes and the
Languages of Screen Media”, the deadline is the 31st of January,
and here is some more detail from the website and the call for
papers (see below):  Keynote speakers: Richard Dyer (King’s
College London) Raphaëlle Moine (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3)
John Urry (University of Lancaster)  Why is it that in space no
one can hear you scream but everyone seems to be speaking
English?  Contemporary media culture is as much a sonic and
acoustic culture as it is a visual culture. Perhaps more than
ever, sound carries cultural meaning, and the spaces we inhabit
are soundscapes as much as landscapes and cityscapes. In the
design of cars, for instance,