Aurality Hub event with Louis Chude-Sokei, 9/12

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The Aurality Hub is back this Friday (9/15) at 2 pm in Barnard LL26. Come meet Louis Chude-Sokei for a special conversation about sound production's role in disrupting social constructs. 

Louis Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar who is currently Professor of English and Director of the African American and Black Diaspora Studies Program at Boston University. His scholarship foregrounds the importance of sound production as a locus of Black interactions with technology, redressing the primitive/civilized, Black/technology binaries that structure the colonial imaginary. He is currently working on a new book titled Machines of Flesh and Blood: Race and the Making of Artificial Intelligence (Viking/Random House, 2026).

The Aurality Hub is a series of faculty events — to meet and discuss, research and experiment with all that purports to the aural. The Aurality Hub aims to reposition the media of academic inquiry and disciplinary hierarchies by way of the aural register — sound, music, noise, silence; orality, soundscape; listening, hearing; acoustics, vibrational practices; performance, radio, podcasting, dubbing; spatial sound, Ambisonics, Dolby, machine listening, and more.

All are welcome. To RSVP, please email the organizers, joseph.auner@tufts.edu, riccardo.giacconi@tufts.edu, alessandra.campana@tufts.edu.