Call for Proposals

Can we imagine a world without sound and frequencies? The Intersections | Cross-sections (IS|CS) conference committee invites you to participate in this year’s interdisciplinary conference and artistic exhibition on sound, the sonic, and listening. This conference will take place at both X* University and York University in a hybrid online/in-person conference model from March 18th to 19th, 2022.

The IS|CS invites papers and artworks that consider the potential uses, materiality, and affective/ embodied dimensions of sound, reflecting on what we transmit through practices of sound making and listening in relation to the arts, media, geography, history, and technology. Recognizing the use of sound as never neutral, we value scholarship and creative work that explores the role of sound and its adjoining concepts in relation to unpacking race, gender, sexuality, technology, disability, imperialism, and colonialism. 

As always the aim of IS|CS is to bring together artists, scholars and professionals, in any stage of their work, to have eye-opening conversations about the paths the field of communication and culture might take and how academia and the arts are intricately entwined. Work and research blurring the boundaries between disciplines and fields inform discussions at the conference each year.