IL SUONO INCISO / THE RECORDED SOUND Interdisciplinary Conference
Rome & Online
2–4 October 2025
Exploring historical sound reproduction: research, education, collecting, preservation, dissemination. Focus on Italy, 19th–20th c. sound heritage.
Deadline: 15/07/2025
Submit proposals via: sofos.direttivo@gmail.com
my first blog post in quite a while, going over the start of my research at YIVO this week and some of the mutual aid society pamphlets where I've been looking for traces of old New York klezmers.
https://alte.klezmor.im/2025/02/09/the-start-of-my-research-fellowship-at-yivo-in-new-york/
#fluConf2025 will include a track on independent publishing and archival. We want to hear stories of what's being done to create non-corporate spaces on the web and preserve the media big companies so often erase.
Tell us about your motivations and experience moving from big platforms like Substack, Twitter, Instagram, and Wix to self-hosted or communally-operated alternatives.
Share your insights into the world of for-profit journals in academia, and efforts to establish better options not based on extraction.
How do you adapt to challenges like the falling adoption of established syndication protocols like RSS, the costs of AI scraping, and ever-changing search engine algorithms? How do you keep up with legal requirements for content moderation and age verification?
With so many corporate platforms shutting down, changing policies on media retention, or moving to monetize content for AI training: how have you gone about archiving your media? What tools and techniques have you used to ensure it isn't lost? How do we resist corporate capture of independent media and foster conditions for more long-lived infrastructure?
Apply up until midnight of January 19th, 2025 (anywhere on Earth)
