Paper Session #2: Technologies and Traces

1. "Notational Systems and Appliances for Blind Musicians: Approaches, Affordances, Positionalities" Stephanie Probst (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna, Austria) - presenting online
2. "Blind Women Listening, Writing and Thinking in the Nineteenth Century" Hannah Thompson (Royal Holloway University of London, England) - presenting in person
3. "Toward a Music History of Braille: Tactile Literacy in the Long Nineteenth Century" Michael Accinno (West Tisbury, MA) - presenting in person
4. "On Retranslating Musical Scores: Blind Composing Then and Now" Christoph Siems and Solveig-Marie Oma (Leipzig, Germany) - presenting in person

Part of the bicentenary symposium "Reframing the Gaze: Maria Theresia Paradis, Blind Musicians, and Musical Culture Before and After Braille" (November 22-23, 2024, Mount Holyoke College and online)