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On Friday 22 May 2026, Sandra Jasper (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Jonathan Prior (Cardiff University) will join the 2025-2026 ASCA Cities Seminar for a talk titled “Urban Bioacoustics: Listening to Animal Voices in the GDR”. The session takes place from 15.00-17.00 in room 0.16 (E-lab) at the University of Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 9, Amsterdam.
Sandra Jasper is Professor of Geography and holds the Chair in Cultural Geography and Society-Environment Research at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her research interests are in cultural, urban, and environmental geography with a particular focus on urban nature and biodiversity, wastelands and infrastructures, sonic geographies, and feminist theory. Her new AHRC-DFG funded project Networked through Sound: Listening to 20th Century Wildlife Sound Archives is an international collaborative research project, which examines the history of European wildlife sound recording through seven archives located in Europe and South Africa.
Jonathan Prior is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University, with a broad research interest in nature-society relations. His work is interdisciplinary in approach, spanning cultural geography, sound studies, environmental philosophy, geohumanities, and landscape research.
For more information and registration, please contact Linda Kopitz (l.kopitz@uva.nl).
Readings
- Hui, A. 2021. Listening to Extinction: Early Conservation Radio Sounds and the Silences of Species, The American Historical Review 126 (4): 1371-1395, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab533
- H. Hunter, S. Jasper, and J. Prior, 2024. Digital Sonic Ecologies: Encountering the Non-Human through Digital Sound Recordings, in Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds, ed. H. Anderson-Elliott et al., 50-69. Manchester: Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526170354.00010
All readings can be accessed via this shared Surfdrive folder as well.
The ASCA Cities Seminar is co-organized by Carolyn Birdsall, Linda Kopitz and Alex Gekker.