10 Dec 2024–10 Feb 2025
Application form | Open call PDF
2025 CENSE Symposium
23–26 Sep 2025, Ljubljana / festival TO)pot

Symposium Open Call Cross-European Network for Sonic Ecologies (CENSE) network focuses on innovative, interdisciplinary contributions: lectures, peripatetic or performative lectures and other forms of presentations.

Building on the 2023 Beyond Listening: Agency, Art, and the Environment symposium in Budapest and the rich range of subjects discussed there, we invite you to submit a proposal in response to this open call for a follow-up event in Cukrarna, Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 2025.

By walking-with and listening to the “cultural turn” toward posthumanism we contribute to a shift in understanding humanity’s place within the world, challenging human exceptionalism and dominance. By walking-with and listening we engage in embodied practices that stimulate awareness of limited planetary resources and humanity’s destructive impact, from climate change to biodiversity loss. Such practices urge us to rethink the relationships with non-human life, technology, and ecosystems, advocating for an ethical shift and interdependent approach, to inspire coexistence for more sustainable futures.

Themes of the open call:

• Walking-with changes: rethinking walking as a method of inquiry, approaching listening-with your feet, soundwalking;
• Listening-with and beyond disciplines: employing the convergence of art, science, and technology in sonic ecosystems;
• Staying-with solastalgia: experiencing distress induced by environmental change in our home environment;
• Resonating-with lessons learnt from listening to the Anthropocene, addressing inequality, discrimination, and social justice;
• Being-with other-than-human sonic environments (ecoacoustics and bioacoustics) and engagement with environmental activism;
• Rethinking-with local and regional, historical and contemporary epistemologies and ethics of environmental awareness.

The deadline for applications is 10 February 2025
Application: https://forms.gle/oVAydkqPyqa1ZoXv9
More info is available in the opencall PDF
Contact: symposium@cense.earth