Witnessing: A Journal of Critical Humanities and Socially Engaged Arts

The new, annual, open-access journal Witnessing: A Journal of Critical Humanities and Socially Engaged Arts has been published in December 2025.

Witnessing has been created in the context of ERC Consolidator Grant MUTE – Soundscapes of Trauma: Music, Sound and the Ethics of Witnessing, led by Dr Anna Papaeti and funded by the European Research Council (Horizon 2020).

Thoroughly interdisciplinary, the journal deals with the study of the past and present, through the looking glass of history, sound, listening and the notion of witnessing. Witnessing aims at enriching and critically informing perceptions about listening, sound, violence, resistance, and marginalization, cultivating a space for critical thinking and critical o/auralities, rupturing and transgressing the boundaries of national archives and archives of violence.

Titled Listening as Witnessing, the first issue was published at the end of December 2025.

Issue 01 – December 2025 | Listening as Witnessing

Co-edited by the acclaimed sound-studies theorist Brandon LaBelle and the journal’s fοunding editor Anna Papaeti, the issue consists of contributions by: acte vide (Danae Stefanou & Ioannis Kotsonis), Nelli Kambouri, Lefteris Krysalis, Leandros Kyriakopoulos, Brandon LaBelle, Stefanos Levidis, Eva Matsigkou, Anna Papaeti, Dana Papachristou and Yorgos Samantas, and Gene Ray.