PAPERS
Below is a partial chronological list of the papers I have presented at conferences and as invited lectures in various institutions.
Nov 2023
“Towards an Acoustemology of Witches”, Sound Stage Screen Conference, Milan, 5 November 2023. (In collaboration with Marina Romani)
April 2023
“Risible Creatures”, Cornell University Music Department Colloquium Series
March 2022
“Risible Creatures: A Brief and Messy Journey to the Limit of the Human,” Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University
October 2021
“Laughter as Sound Reproduction,” University of Pennsylvania Music Department Colloquium Series
November 2019
“LaffBox: On the Musical Origins of Canned Laughter,” American Musicological Society Yearly Meeting, Boston
September 2018
“Phonography in Transit,” UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Colloquium. Co-presented with Gavin Williams
October 2018
“Contagion, Erasure, and Laughter: Reproduction of Sound in Two 1890s Laughing Songs,” Stanford University
March 2018
“A’ Risa: Political Mythography of a Laughing Song,” University of California San Diego Colloquium Series
November 2017
“Ignorant Readers,” Music and Philosophy Group, American Musicological Society Yearly Meeting, Rochester, NY
October 2016
“Gramsci’s Voices,” Cambridge University Music Department Colloquium Series
April 2016
“Gramsci's Prison Diaries: Walls, Writing, and the Cell as Resonance Chamber.” Paper given at a symposium on the theme of incarceration at Jesus College, Cambridge
Nov 2015
“I fatti di Milano, 1969: Recording a Milanese Riot” American Musicological Society Yearly Meeting, Louisville (KY)