BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:29614@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:Echo Travels: Re-Circulating Historical Voice Recordings That Speak of Colonial History DTSTAMP:20261028T232354Z DTSTART:20261210T190000Z DESCRIPTION:Historical voice recordings made with African speakers offer wa ys of listening\nto colonial histories. Echo Travels\, an art project by A nette Hoffmann and\nRosemary Lombard\, re-introduces speakers whose voices were recorded in projects\nof colonial knowledge production. It facilitat es listening in public spaces by\nre-assembling the speaker’s dispersed au dio-visual archival traces\,\nre-activating their photographic portraits\, re-translating their spoken words\nand attending to historical context.\n \nThe resulting sound pieces place archival recordings in conversation wit h the\nvoices of the translators. To re-circulate these lesser-known takes on colonial\nhistory\, the project creates mobile exhibition elements: li ghtly travelling\,\nsounding posters accompanied by side texts. In this le cture\, Anette Hoffmann\nfocuses on the speaking positions communicated by a group of young women who\noffered a history lecture to a German linguis t in Namibia in 1954. She presents\nthe project’s newest poster\, featurin g Namibian singer Adelheid Mbwaondjou and\nher interlocutor\, Renathe Tjik undi-Merero. The lecture discusses the particular\naffordances of sound ar chives and engages with questions of politics of archival\naccess to sound collections in the present.\n\nThis lecture is the second one of the annu al lecture series ‘New Directions in\nSonic History.’ Part of the research project Sound Affairs: Sonic Histories of\nForeign Relations\, 1700-1990\ , it invites a leading researcher each year to\ndeliver a public lecture o n the historical significance of the study of sound\n(and silence) from va rious thematic\, chronological\, and disciplinary\nperspectives. Holden Sa ge Carroll will moderate the Q&A after the talk.\n\nRead more on the resea rch project and the annual lecture series on the website\nof Sound Affairs [https://www.sound-affairs.com/].\n\n\nSPEAKERS\n\nAnette Hoffmann is an artist\, curator and researcher. Her work engages with\nhistorical sound a rchives and audio-visual collections as sources of colonial\nhistory (see anettehoffmann.com [https://anettehoffmann.com/] and\necho-travels.org [ht tps://echo-travels.org/]). Her recent books are Knowing by\nEar: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps\n(1915- 1918) (Duke University Press\, 2024) and Listening to Colonial History\n(B AB\, 2023).\n\nHolden Carroll is a PhD candidate at the UvA’s Amsterdam Sc hool of Historical\nStudies. Through his ongoing research for the Sound Af fairs project\, he analyzes\nUnesco’s use of radio and other sound technol ogies in the postwar period\,\nactivating a digitized sound archive of the international organization’s radio\nprogrammes as a key primary source. H e is also producing an experimental radio\nseries for Radio WORM (Rotterda m). There he will present a study of the\ninternational organization’s use of sound in narrating its mission to ‘build\npeace in the minds of men’ b y weaving together his finds from Unesco’s radio\narchive.\n\nMore speaker s to be announced shortly. URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/echo-travels-re-circulating-historical- voice-recordings-that-speak-of-colonial-history GEO:52.3685931;4.8896879 LOCATION:SPUI25 - Spui 25-27\, 1012 WX Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:decolonial,history,lecture,talk X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Historical voice recordings made with Afric an speakers offer ways of listening to colonial histories. Echo Travel s, an art project by Anette Hoffmann and Rosemary Lombard, re-introdu ces speakers whose voices were recorded in projects of colonial knowledge production. It facilitates listening in public spaces by re-assembling the speaker’s dispersed audio-visual archival traces, re-activating their pho tographic portraits, re-translating their spoken words and attending to hi storical context.

The resulting sound pieces place archival record ings in conversation with the voices of the translators. To re-circulate t hese lesser-known takes on colonial history, the project creates mobile ex hibition elements: lightly travelling, sounding posters accompanied by sid e texts. In this lecture, Anette Hoffmann focuses on the speaking position s communicated by a group of young women who offered a history lecture to a German linguist in Namibia in 1954. She presents the project’s newest po ster, featuring Namibian singer Adelheid Mbwaondjou and her interlocutor, Renathe Tjikundi-Merero. The lecture discusses the particular affordances of sound archives and engages with questions of politics of archival acces s to sound collections in the present.

This lecture is the second o ne of the annual lecture series ‘New Directions in Sonic History.’ Part of the research project Sound Affairs: Sonic Histories of Foreign Relati ons, 1700-1990, it invites a leading researcher each year to deliver a public lecture on the historical significance of the study of sound (and silence) from various thematic, chronological, and disciplinary perspecti ves. Holden Sage Carroll will moderate the Q&A after the talk.

Read more on the research project and the annual lecture series on the website of Sound Affairs.

Speakers

Anette Hoffmann is an artist, curator and researcher. Her wo rk engages with historical sound archives and audio-visual collections as sources of colonial history (see anettehoffmann.com and echo-travels.org). Her recent books are Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in Ger man Camps (1915-1918) (Duke University Press, 2024) and Listening to Colonial History (BAB, 2023).

Holden Carroll is a PhD candidate at the UvA’s Amsterdam School of Historica l Studies. Through his ongoing research for the Sound Affairs pro ject, he analyzes Unesco’s use of radio and other sound technologies in th e postwar period, activating a digitized sound archive of the internationa l organization’s radio programmes as a key primary source. He is also prod ucing an experimental radio series for Radio WORM (Rotterdam). There he wi ll present a study of the international organization’s use of sound in nar rating its mission to ‘build peace in the minds of men’ by weaving togethe r his finds from Unesco’s radio archive.

More speakers to be an nounced shortly.

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