Network for Silence Studies

History

On this page you will find a list of the main activities that have taken place under the umbrella of Network for Silence studies.

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28 January 2026PresentationSamuel Bennett: Myths and Silences of Empire in British Immigration Discourse
26 November 2025PresentationBernhard Stahl: When (im-)pertinent events fade away – mass atrocity crimes, the media, and the politics of silence
29 October 2025General meetingOnline meeting, discussing the activities of the network. Discussing future activities.
24 October 2025PresentationKalika Kastein: “Queering silence”
17 October 2025PresentationEthan Plaut: “Silenced Type: On Feminist Refusal of Technology and Mediation”
18 June 2025PresentationChristof Migone: “Zen-Nez: Of Reversed And Inverted Grooves On Idle Spindles”
14 May 2025PresentationLuke Lavender: “In what way is silence performative: thinking through the effects of silence’s discursivity”
19 March 2025PresentationDan Degerman: “The medicalisation of silence“
19 February 2025PresentationBjörn Puhr: “The scandal of silence: between phenomenology and realism“
22 January 2025PresentationFreek Sanders: “The Generative Power of Silence: Exploring Its Role in Personal Growth”
9 January 2025Book Roundtable DiscussionDiscussion under the headline “Embedding Silence into Politics” between Michael Freeden and Mónica Brito Vieira (with – among others – Melani Schröder as discussant). Arranged by Luke Lavender (BIAPT panel in University of York).
12-14 December 2024ConferenceSilence in Analogue and Digital Communication in Western Modernity (arr. by Theo Jung and Melani Schröter)
4 December 2024PresentationElizabeth Solverson: “Active Spectating in the Digital Public Sphere: Exploring silent online political engagement”
23 October 2024Ordinary meetingOnline meeting, discussing the activities of the network. Discussing future activities.
19 June 2024PresentationJosé Luis Sánchez Ramírez: “Political Silences as Sound Events in Social Protest”
22 May 2024PresentationTheo Jung: “Varieties of Absence. Silence and Negativity Studies”
17 April 2024PresentationLois Presser: “Unsaid. Analyzing Harmful Silences”
20 March 2024PresentationLukas Mozdeika: “Lurking and Self-censorship on Social Media Sites as Silent Protest against Demands of Interactivity”
17 January 2024PresentationElisabeth Schweiger: “Silent War – Counterinsurgency and the Global Economy of Silence”
6 December 2023PresentationEjvind Hansen – “Freedom of Silence — How to Let Silence set you Free”
7 November 2023Ordinary meetingOnline meeting, discussing the activities of the network. Discussing future activities.
22 June 2023Conference panelPanel on “The challenge and promises of ‘silence’ in global politics” at the BISA 2023 Conference (arranged by Sophia Dingli).
19 April 2023Journal meetingOnline meeting, discussing how to get on with plans for journal on silence studies.
8 March 2023Literature databaseThe NSS-literaturedatabase goes live
15 December 2022WorkshopOnline workshop on the relationship between silence and absence.
2 November 2022Ordinary meetingOnline meeting, discussing the activities of the network. Discussing future activities.
20 October 2022Conference panelPanel at ECREA-2022 conference.
10 June 2022WorkshopOnline Workshop, presenting and discussing papers, work-in-progress, ideas.
31 March 2022Reading clubAnanny, Mike. ‘Presence of Absence: Exploring the Democratic Significance of Silence’.
26 November 2021Reading clubAchino-Loeb, Maria-Luisa. 2006. “Silence and the Imperatives of Identity.”
3 November 2021Ordinary meetingOnline meeting, discussing the activities of the network. Discussing furture activities.
22 October 2021Reading clubMaggie MacLure et al: Silence as Resistance to Analysis
24 September 2021Reading clubNiklas Luhmann: Speaking and Silence
23 July 2021Reading clubMargaret Montoya: Silence and Silencing
21 April 2021Ordinary meetingFirst online meeting in the network. Welcoming remarks, talk about schedules and future initiatives, etc.
8 February 2021NSS is a realityBased upon the feedback, NSS is announced to be a reality.
6 January 2021Invitations are forwardedThe first emails, inviting a group of scholars in silence studies to participate in a network.