Media & Events

Blogposts

CaMP Anthropology. “Jennifer Hsieh takes the Page 99 Test.” 2020.

CASTAC/Platypus. “Hearing the Unknown: Case Studies in Cuba and Taiwan.” 2019.

Taiwan Insight. “Noise pollution in Taiwan in the age of PM2.5.” 2018. 

Many-to-Many Digital Archive. “Conversations about Hearing Sound.” 2017.

Soundscape Association of Taiwan. “現代化的都市聲景:台北市,紐約市,成田市 Xiandaihua de dushi shengjing: Taibei shi, niuyue shi, chengtian shi” [Modern Soundscapes of the City: Taipei, New York, and Narita]. 2017.

Podcasts

Dublab. “Xandão — Sound Study w/Jennifer Hsieh.” 2021.

Taiwanese Diaspora. “Anthropologist Studies Noise in Taiwan.” 2019.

Invited Lectures (Selected)

“Low Frequencies: Relational Listening and Apprehensive Sensing in Taiwan’s Noise Management System.” Anthropology, UC Berkeley, 2023.

“Lossless Governance: An Ethnographic Analysis of Noise Control in Taiwan.” Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt University, 2022.

“The Politics of Hearing: Noise Control under the Chinese Kuomintang in Taiwan.” Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, 2022.

“From Festival to Decibel: Contestations of Renao and Zaoyin in Taiwan’s Noise Control System.” Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, 2021.

“Hearing Like a State: Office Work and Noise Control in a Post-Authoritarian Bureaucracy.” Ethnomusicology, Duke University, 2021.

Testing Hearing: Audiometry and Environmental Noise Control in Postwar Taiwan.” Taiwan Studies Group, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2019. 

‘Do you hear that?’ Sonic Encroachments and the Techno-semiotic Ear.” STS Lunch Series, Tufts University, 2019. 

“Noise, Decibels, and the Paradox of Reproducibility in Urban Taiwan.” Friday Lunch Talk, Department of Musicology, Harvard University, 2018.

“Video Recorders, the Decibel, and Noise: Visualizing Hearing in Taiwan’s Noise Management System.” Arts and Society Speaker Series. Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 2018. 

Audiometry and Environmental Noise Control in Postwar Taiwan.” Colloquium for Taiwan Studies Programme, University of Nottingham, England, 2018.

“Noise Governance, Public Sensibilities, and Differentiated Forms of Hearing in Taipei.” Colloquium, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2016.

Workshops Organized

Techniques of Mediation. Stanford Humanities Center Geballe Research Workshop. Co-organized with Miyako Inoue and Thomas Mullaney. 2016.

The Material Imagination: Sound, Space, and Human Consciousness. Stanford Global Studies Initiative. Co-organized with Bissera Pentcheva. 2013-2014.