Arts and Social Sciences

The Listening Project

What is The Listening Project?

The Listening Project is a program of research collaboration that has brought together Australian cultural and media scholars, practitioners and activists interested in the theme of 'listening', an emerging international focus in Media Studies and citizens' media interventions. The Project broadly looks at how habitual critiques of representation and the politics of 'speaking' (or giving voice to the voiceless) are giving way to investigation of more active possibilities for social inclusion and change based on recognition, dialogic engagement and acceptance.

Members of the project have developed a new area of study through an innovative model of networking, bringing together researchers across a range of disciplines as well as media and cultural producers. Workshops have examined the neglected dynamics of 'listening' in diverse theoretical and practical contexts.

We invite you to read the articles included in a recent, special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Volume 23, Issue 4), dedicated to the theme of Listening.

Who convenes the activities of the Listening Project?

The convenors are Tanja Dreher, Justine Lloyd, Penny O'Donnell and Cate Thill and the Project Officer is Jan Idle. The workshops have been funded by the ARC's Cultural Research Network and supported by the Transforming Cultures Research Centre at the University of Technology Sydney and the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion at Macquarie University.

Please address your inquiries to: Jan.Idle@uts.edu.au

 

 

 

2009: Past Workshops
 

Listening Project Symposium: 'Listening Futures'

7 December
Macquarie University

This was the final event for the Listening project.A series of panels was held over the course of the day that picked up on three key themes that have been identified by researchers over the last two years. Separate panels focused on 'Labour and Listening', 'Recognition' and 'Media Practices'

Click here to read and download the symposium programme and the call for papers.

Contact the project officer, Jan Idle, for more information.


EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER & POSTGRADUATE colloquium with SARAI/ANKUR'Listening in/as research: Practices, Localities and Communities'.

9 December, 9.30 - 5pm

This event was hosted by 'The Listening Project': a collaboration between researchers at Macquarie, Sydney, UTS and Notre Dame Universities, and acknowledged the support of the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion at Macquarie University, the Transforming Cultures Research Centre at UTS and the Australian Research Council's Cultural Research Network.

Please click here to read the detailed workshop flyer [pdf].
 

Methodologies to Capture Listening [pdf]

31 July 2009, UTS - Building 10, Room 460
Cate Thill (UNDA), Tanja Dreher (UTS) and Kate Crawford (UNSW)
Download the workshop report here [pdf]
 

2008: Past Workshops (Download the listening project workshop details here [pdf])

Media, Multiculturalism & the Politics of Listening

16 April 2008, UTS - Building 10, Level 6
Tanja Dreher (UTS) and Gay Hawkins (UNSW)

Technologies of Listening

31 July 2008, UTS
Justine Lloyd (Macq) and Kate Crawford (UNSW)

Conflict, Democracy & Listening

26 September 2008, Monash
Mark Gibson (Monash)

Disability, Democracy, Media & Listening

10 October 2008, (UNSW)
Gerard Goggin (UNSW) and Rosemary Kayess (UNSW)

Listening Practices

31 October 2008, (USyd)
Penny O'Donnell (USyd) and Juan Salazar (UWS)

Postgraduate and ECR Workshop

13 November 2008, UTS
download information sheet [pdf]

Publications Workshop

14 November 2008, UTS


For further information contact Jan Idle, the Listening Project Project Officer.