From Nov. 5-8, 2015 the annual\u00a0Film & History\u00a0conference<\/a> will be held at The Madison Concourse Hotel. Since 2000, the conference\u00a0has grown into an international event for scholars working in a wide range of disciplines. This year’s theme is\u00a0Journeys, Detours, Breakdowns, and there is an\u00a0area of the conference devoted to sound (with close to 10 sound-related panels). They are listed below, or you can see the full program here<\/a>:<\/p>\n Thursday, November 5th<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 9:45 – 11:15 Old Technologies, New Histories (Sound Decisions I)<\/strong><\/p>\n Paul Moody, Brunel University London – The City of Sound: Alan Blumlein and the Development of Stereo Sound on Film<\/p>\n Katherine Quanz, Wilfrid Laurier University – Lonely Boy(s) on Location: Portable Recording at the NFB<\/p>\n Tim Anderson, Old Dominion University – Second Person Sound: Music Minus One Plus Instructed Subjects<\/p>\n 3:00 \u2013 4:30 Voices and Effects (Sound Decisions II)<\/strong><\/p>\n Casey Long, University of Wisconsin-Madison – Moving Mouths: The Development of Lip Synch Techniques in Hollywood Animation<\/p>\n Vanessa Theme Ament, Ball State University – Alien Sound: Surprising Sources for Sound Design for James Cameron\u2019s Aliens<\/p>\n Rebecca Weeks, University of Auckland –\u00a0Listening to History: HBO\u2019s Band of Brothers<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday, November 6<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 8:00 – 9:30 From Innovation to Practice (Sound Decisions III)<\/strong><\/p>\n Ivy Roberts, Virginia Commonwealth University –\u00a0Image-Sounds and Sound-Pictures: Innovation and Standardization in Late 1920s Films and Television<\/p>\n Matthew Perkins, University of California-Los Angeles –\u00a0Converging Sounds: Inter-Media Labor During the Transition to Talking Films<\/p>\n Jeff Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison –\u00a0Scoring the Stuff That Dreams are Made of: Music in Three Versions of The Maltese Falcon<\/p>\n 12:45 – 2:45 Musical Design (Sound Decisions IV) <\/strong><\/p>\n Katherine Spring, Wilfrid Laurier University –\u00a0Synths Tron: The False Promise of the Integrated Soundtrack<\/p>\n Ariane Lebot, New York University –\u00a0Authoring the Soundtrack: Shared Responsibilities and Professional Identities in Martin Scorsese\u2019s New York Films<\/p>\n Matt St. John, University of Wisconsin-Madison –\u00a0Homegrown Spectacle: The Broken Blossoms Score in Small American Cities<\/p>\n Neil Verma, Northwestern University – A Juggler on the Moon<\/p>\n 3:00 – 4:30 The International Adoption of Sound (Sound Decisions V)<\/strong><\/p>\n Lea Jacobs, University of Wisconsin-Madison –\u00a0Rethinking the Sync: Adorno, Eisler, and Eisenstein<\/p>\n Jeffrey Bullins, State University of New York-Plattsburgh – Musical Breakdown: Realism in the Soundtracks of the 1930s<\/p>\n Charles O\u2019Brien, Carleton University, Canada –\u00a0The Road to Monte Carlo: Between Hollywood and Berlin<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Saturday, November 7<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 8:00 – 9:30 Game On (Sound Decisions VI)<\/strong><\/p>\n Alex Kupfer, New York University –\u00a0Radio\u2019s Grand Stand: Early Broadcasting, Electroacoustic Technology, and Baseball<\/p>\n William Knoblauch, Finlandia University –\u00a0SIMON: The World\u2019s Most Famous Music Memory Game<\/p>\n Neil Lerner, Davidson College –\u00a0Hearing Death in Video Game Music\u2019s Silent Era<\/p>\n 12:45 – 1:45 Special Session: The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research<\/strong><\/p>\n 3:00 – 4:30 Formats and “Formats” (Sound Decisions VII)<\/strong><\/p>\n Jeremy Morris, University of Wisconsin-Madison –\u00a0Music Re-Tuned: Streaming, Sound Apps, and Music\u2019s \u201cNew Formats\u201d<\/p>\n J. J. Bersch, University of Wisconsin-Madison –\u00a0Let\u2019s Start Making Sense: On Small-Scale Indexing and Phenomenology of the Concert Documentary<\/p>\n Mark Kerins, Southern Methodist University –\u00a0Home Theater Sound Technology, Culture, and Style<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sunday, November 8<\/strong> <\/span> Vincent Bohlinger, Rhode Island College –\u00a0\u201cThoroughly Russian\u201d: Road to Life in the United States<\/p>\n Ling Zhang, University of Chicago –\u00a0A Lamb Astray: Road to Life and Its Cultural Afterlife in China<\/p>\n Anastasia Fedorova, Hokkaido University, Japan –\u00a0\u201cOur Only Guide to Sound Cinema:\u201d Nikolai Ekk\u2019s Road to Life and Its Reception in Japan<\/p>\n 9:45 – 11:15 Horror and Suspense (Sound Decisions IX)<\/strong><\/p>\n Jacob Smith, Northwestern University –\u00a0The Birds: Listening to Radio\u2019s Sonic Multitude<\/p>\n Eric Dienstfrey, University of Wisconsin-Madison – House of Tracks: Surround Sound in 1950s Horror<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>","excerpt":" From Nov. 5-8, 2015 the annual Film & History conference will be held at The Madison Concourse Hotel. The conference has a number of exciting panels devoted to the theme of sound.<\/p>","slug":"film-history-conference-2015-sound-panels","image":{"url":"http:\/\/soundstudies.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/35mm_film_audio_macro.jpg","id":190,"extension":"jpg","width":1900,"height":775,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","url":"http:\/\/soundstudies.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/35mm_film_audio_macro-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"width":300,"height":122,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","url":"http:\/\/soundstudies.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/35mm_film_audio_macro-300x122.jpg"},"large":{"width":1024,"height":418,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","url":"http:\/\/soundstudies.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/35mm_film_audio_macro-1024x418.jpg"},"fullframe-featured-content":{"width":400,"height":225,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","url":"http:\/\/soundstudies.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/35mm_film_audio_macro-400x225.jpg"},"fullframe-slider":{"width":1680,"height":720,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","url":"http:\/\/soundstudies.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/35mm_film_audio_macro-1680x720.jpg"},"fullframe-featured":{"width":860,"height":484,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","url":"http:\/\/soundstudies.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/35mm_film_audio_macro-860x484.jpg"},"sow-carousel-default":{"width":272,"height":182,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","url":"http:\/\/soundstudies.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/35mm_film_audio_macro-272x182.jpg"}}},"all_day":true,"start_date":"2015-11-05 00:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2015","month":"11","day":"05","hour":"00","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2015-11-08 23:59:59","end_date_details":{"year":"2015","month":"11","day":"08","hour":"23","minutes":"59","seconds":"59"},"utc_start_date":"2015-11-05 00:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2015","month":"11","day":"05","hour":"00","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2015-11-08 23:59:59","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2015","month":"11","day":"08","hour":"23","minutes":"59","seconds":"59"},"timezone":"UTC+0","timezone_abbr":"","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"http:\/\/www.uwosh.edu\/filmandhistory\/conference\/index.php","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":192,"author":"2","status":"publish","date":"2015-10-28 16:42:20","date_utc":"2015-10-28 16:42:20","modified":"2015-10-28 16:42:20","modified_utc":"2015-10-28 16:42:20","url":"http:\/\/soundstudies.wisc.edu\/venue\/the-madison-concourse-hotel-and-governors-club\/","venue":"The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor\u2019s Club","slug":"the-madison-concourse-hotel-and-governors-club","address":"1 West Dayton Street","city":"Madison","country":"United States","state":"WI","zip":"53703","phone":"1-800-356-8293","website":"https:\/\/bookings.ihotelier.com\/The-Madison-Concourse-Hotel-and-Governors-Club\/bookings.jsp?hotelID=6388&groupID=1463750","stateprovince":"WI","json_ld":{"@type":"Place","name":"The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor\u2019s Club","description":"","url":false,"address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"1 West Dayton Street","addressLocality":"Madison","addressRegion":"WI","postalCode":"53703","addressCountry":"United States"},"telephone":"1-800-356-8293","sameAs":"https:\/\/bookings.ihotelier.com\/The-Madison-Concourse-Hotel-and-Governors-Club\/bookings.jsp?hotelID=6388&groupID=1463750"},"show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"global_id":"soundstudies.wisc.edu?id=192","global_id_lineage":["soundstudies.wisc.edu?id=192"]},"organizer":[{"id":191,"author":"2","status":"publish","date":"2015-10-28 16:42:20","date_utc":"2015-10-28 16:42:20","modified":"2015-10-28 16:42:20","modified_utc":"2015-10-28 16:42:20","url":"http:\/\/soundstudies.wisc.edu\/organizer\/film-history-conference-2015\/","organizer":"Film & History Conference 2015","slug":"film-history-conference-2015","website":"http:\/\/www.uwosh.edu\/filmandhistory\/conference\/index.php","json_ld":{"@type":"Person","name":"Film & History Conference 2015","description":"","url":false,"telephone":"","email":"","sameAs":"http:\/\/www.uwosh.edu\/filmandhistory\/conference\/index.php"},"global_id":"soundstudies.wisc.edu?id=191","global_id_lineage":["soundstudies.wisc.edu?id=191"]}],"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"Film & History Conference 2015 (Sound Panels)","description":"<p>From Nov. 5-8, 2015 the annual Film & History conference will be held at The Madison Concourse Hotel. The conference has a number of exciting panels devoted to the theme of sound.<\/p>\\n","image":"http:\/\/soundstudies.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/35mm_film_audio_macro.jpg","url":"http:\/\/soundstudies.wisc.edu\/event\/film-history-conference-2015-sound-panels\/","startDate":"2015-11-05T00:00:00+00:00","endDate":"2015-11-08T23:59:59+00:00","location":{"@type":"Place","name":"The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor\u2019s Club","description":"","url":false,"address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"1 West Dayton Street","addressLocality":"Madison","addressRegion":"WI","postalCode":"53703","addressCountry":"United States"},"telephone":"1-800-356-8293","sameAs":"https:\/\/bookings.ihotelier.com\/The-Madison-Concourse-Hotel-and-Governors-Club\/bookings.jsp?hotelID=6388&groupID=1463750"},"organizer":{"@type":"Person","name":"Film & History Conference 2015","description":"","url":false,"telephone":"","email":"","sameAs":"http:\/\/www.uwosh.edu\/filmandhistory\/conference\/index.php"}}}
\n8:00 – 9:30 Case Studies in the International Reception of Road to Life, the First Soviet Feature-Length Sound Film (Sound Decisions VIII)<\/strong><\/p>\n