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PhD submitted, defended, and graduated as of June 2026! Looking forward to continue developing my research along themes around: (selected) trans-Pacific ocean-oriented practices, underwater sound and listening, decolonizing methodologies, field recordings, sound installations, terrestrial/underwater acoustics and struggling-navigating-situating my own positionalities towards creating research-creative works that engages in environmental humanities, ocean conservation and education…more to come…

Listed from most recent:

1) Sit, Janet and Betlem Pallardó. “Echoes in Elsewhere: Marine Acoustemologies and the Aesthetics of More-then-Human Futures”, presentation and sound work performance for the Blue Animal Aesthetics Conference, Hochshule für Musik Nürnberg, October 22-24, 2025. - spoken text (Valencian, English) by Pallardó; sound work, headphone/stereo version

2) Scottish School of Graduate Studies - EARTH Scholarship Program 2025: multiple presentations/demo on different aspects of my research project in Scotland, UK, which will be integrated into my dissertation.
SGSAH Meet our 2025 EARTH Scholars webpage
SGSAH Global Connects Research Presentations - YouTube

3) Sit, Janet. “Tides and Tides of Kinship: Speculative World-Making in Scotland’s Multispecies Waters”, presentation and sound installation demo, Science, Humanities, and Arts Research (SHARE) Symposium #3 “On Inspiration”, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK, June 10, 2025.

4) Sit, Janet. “Tides and Tides of Kinship: Speculative World-Making in Scotland’s Multispecies Waters”, presented online for Research on Animal Song in Culture, Arts, and Literature (RASCAL) and Science, Humanities, and Arts Research Exchange (SHARE), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, May 14, 2025.

5) Sit, Janet. “Tides and Tides of Kinship: Speculative World-Making in Scotland’s Multispecies Waters”, presented online at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Research Exchange Talk, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, April 28, 2025.

6) “Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble: examining and applying underwater time-space experiences towards an eco-activism informed artistic practice”, presented online at University of Pittsburgh Music Graduate Students’ Organization “Music, Space, and Time” Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, March 22-23, 2024.
Sit, Janet. “

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