<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:1px 0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:proxima-nova,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:600">Call for Proposals<br>Hate and NonHuman Listening<br></span><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">A Guest Series for </em>Sounding Out! <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">guest edited by Kathryn Huether<br></em><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:600">Submission Deadline: Monday, July 14, 2025, by 11:59pm PDT<br></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:1px 0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:proxima-nova,Verdana,sans-serif">Please send a proposed title and 300–350 word abstract to: <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:600"><a href="mailto:kathryn.huether@gmail.com" rel="nofollow ugc" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(84,125,125);text-decoration-line:none;outline:none">kathryn.huether@gmail.com</a><br></span>Final pieces should be ~1200 words. Four will be selected for publication.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:1px 0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:proxima-nova,Verdana,sans-serif">We invite submissions for a guest series on <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:600">Hate and NonHuman Listening</span>, which critically examines how artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems are increasingly tasked with listening to, moderating, and at times amplifying hate—whether through speech, sound, or silence.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:1px 0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:proxima-nova,Verdana,sans-serif">This series begins with Todd Presner’s <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691258966/ethics-of-the-algorithm?srsltid=AfmBOop6sK1i3trj-PgcGI_mbiqpU5yLfPr5A7Kt8tLDICkUnkbv1c3O" rel="nofollow ugc" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(84,125,125);text-decoration-line:none;outline:none">Ethics of the Algorithm</a></em> (2024), which asks what it means to use algorithms ethically. We expand that question to consider how algorithms <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">listen</em>—especially when asked to interpret, flag, or police harmful content. What happens when the complexities of human hate, trauma, and protest are processed through systems which were not designed to understand them? And what are the consequences when such systems fail?</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:1px 0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:proxima-nova,Verdana,sans-serif">From hate speech moderation on social platforms to surveillance technologies deployed under the guise of safety, AI now plays a defining role in deciding which voices are heard, which are silenced, and which are misheard altogether. Dr. <a href="https://saadiagabriel.com/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(84,125,125);text-decoration-line:none;outline:none">Saadia Gabriel</a>’s research shows how AI often misflags nonstandard English, AAVE, and protest language as harmful—while overlooking overt hate speech. Similarly, Tonia Sutherland’s <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/books/resurrecting-the-black-body/paper" rel="nofollow ugc" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(84,125,125);text-decoration-line:none;outline:none">Resurrecting the Black Body</a></em> (2023) foregrounds the archival and technological violence that structures digital afterlives, asking how systems listen to (or erase) Black life and death.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:1px 0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:proxima-nova,Verdana,sans-serif">We invite critical essays (~1200 words) that explore the entanglements of hate and NonHuman listening.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:1px 0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:proxima-nova,Verdana,sans-serif">Topics might include:</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:1px 0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:proxima-nova,Verdana,sans-serif">The racialized failures of AI speech recognition and hate speech detection</p><li style="margin:0px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