Witnessing

A Journal of Critical Humanities and Socially Engaged Arts

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    • ISSN 3057-5605
    DOI 10.26238/witnessing.2025

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    Listening as Witnessing

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    Listening as Witnessing

    December 2025

    co-edited by Brandon LaBelle and Anna Papaeti

    ● Editorial
    Anna Papaeti and Brandon LaBelle
    Introduction
    ● Articles
    ● SHORT ESSAYS
    ● AUDIO ESSAYS
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    Open Call – ISSUE 3

    submission deadline for contributions: 8 May 2026
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    An open, white notebook filled with coal-black, smudge-like strokes that leave little space uncovered.
    December 2025 Article Issue 01

    Poetics of Listening: From Archives of Silence to Negative Methodology

    Brandon LaBelle
    An abandoned watchtower featuring the Greek and Cypriot flags partly folded on a sunny day on the Green Line in central Nicosia. Graffiti shows the shape of Cyprus divided in two, filled with dripping red paint and topped with the Greek word ‘Ξεχνώ’ (I forget). People are walking on the narrow sidewalk in close distance.
    December 2025 Article Issue 01

    Listening to Conflict: Radio Broadcasts Across Divided Cyprus

    Anna Papaeti
    Art piece featuring a natural stone base. A paper-cut of a human eye and eyebrow is positioned on the upper half, while the natural creases in the stone below resemble a subtle smirk.
    December 2025 Article Issue 01

    Late Listening: A Planetary Concept

    Gene Ray
    A composite image of two photographs, each featuring a whiteboard. The first shows the word ‘Music’ and the second shows the word ‘Sound’, both translated into English, Greek, Arabic, and Ukrainian.
    December 2025 Article Issue 01

    Listening in Common: Sound, Migration, Gender, and the Buzzing of Translation

    Nelli Kambouri
    Multiple hands interact with a white, faceted spherical device on a wooden floor. Cables connect the device to a laptop displaying audio editing software and waveforms.
    December 2025 Article ISSUE 01

    Broadcasting from a Deaf Planet: Deaf and Hearing Encounters through Sound and Radio Art at School

    Dana Papachristou, Yorgos Samantas
    Schematic of a Sound Generator on aged paper, marking the locations of Water, Oxygen, and Methane inputs and outputs, with a faded ‘UNCLASSIFIED’ stamp.
    December 2025 Article Issue 01

    Dangerous Listening: Warfare, Technology, and the Spectrum of Audibility

    Leandros Kyriakopoulos
    Stefanos Levidis in winter gear squatting next to a professional microphone on a high stand, on the shore of a snowy lake Gistova.
    December 2025 Short Essay Issue 01

    Sounding Border Natures: An Aural Contact with the Greek-Albanian Border

    Stefanos Levidis
    An illustration of a human ear with phrases radiating outward. The text reads: ‘silent leaking’, ‘fading’, ‘porous authorship’, and ‘pours out of me like a stream’.
    December 2025 Short Essay Issue 01

    Disguised as a Recorder: Reflective Practices in Documenting Migrant Women’s Stories

    Eva Matsigkou
    A sign on a tree trunk reading ‘Keep Silent’ in Greek and English, posted next to a forest pathway.
    December 2025 Audio Essay Issue 01

    Listening to Aphonic Borderscapes in Western Thrace: A Self Reflective Audio Essay

    Lefteris Krysalis
    Ioannis Kotsonis and Danae Stefanou behind a table with audio equipment with their silhouettes cast against the back wall, during their performance ‘failed recording’.
    December 2025 Audio Essay Issue 01

    Failed Recording: a Sonic Fiction

    acte vide (Danae Stefanou & Ioannis Kotsonis)

    Issues

    A man in winter gear sitting low in a field, with tall, dry vegetation separating him from the fences and border posts in the background.

    Issue 01

    Listening as Witnessing

    December 2025

    co-edited by Brandon LaBelle and Anna Papaeti
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    Issue 02

    Politics of Listening and the Ethics of Witnessing

    December 2026

    co-edited by Athena Athanasiou, Nelli Kambouri, and Anna Papaeti
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    Issue 03

    Open Call

    December 2027

    submission deadline for contributions: 8 May 2026
    Funding

    ERC MUTE
    Grant Agreement no. 101002720
    PI Anna Papaeti
    National Hellenic Research Foundation