The 4th International Workshop in Theory and Sound "Waves", 26-28/08/2025 at the Paou Monastery, is co-organized by:

• The “Mobility Studies” Postgraduate Programme and the Social Anthropology Lab (Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology), University of Thessaly,
• The Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly,
  
• The Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly,
  

In collaboration with MOMus Experimental Centre for the Arts.

theoretical ↔ artistic workshop

The 2025 ISTW focuses on the topic of “waves”, exploring its analytical potential for the study of music and sound in the (Eastern) Mediterranean and across their transnational trajectories and resonances. The wave, a performative materiality enacting sound’s reproductions, transmissions, diffractions, dispersions, vibrations, interferences, velocities,  echoes,  periodicities, frequencies  and oscillations.

The workshop is aligned with the sound festival organized by MOMus Experimental Centre for the Arts in January 2026. The festival also focuses on the topic of “wwwwavessss”  and will host projects designed in the context of the IWTS workshop.

Invited speakers:

• Jessica Swanston Baker (University of Chicago)
• Gavin Williams (King’s College London)
• Jean Paul Thibaud (AAU Cresson, University Grenoble Alpes)

For more info please refer to the website and the programme.