Maynooth University Arts & Humanities Institute
24-25 March 2020
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Rachel Harris (SOAS)
Dr Thomas Irvine (Southampton)
It is well understood that sound and music operate as media of governance in various historical and contemporary colonial matrices of power. As such, they have been central not only to processes of territorial colonization, but also to cognitive and behavioural colonization. Indeed, efforts to displace or ‘write over’ other soundscapes and to delegitimize and render mute other forms of knowledge production, other aural/musical epistemes, are integral to colonial and imperial processes of epistemicide.
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