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In the third of this term's 'noise'-themed talks, Hillel Schwartz, author of Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond (New York: Zone, 2011) will be giving a talk titled 'The Noise of Almost Nothing'.All welcome to this attend this joint School of Arts/London Consortium event.Note: this will be held in the Keynes Library (Rm 114), 43 Gordon SquareSee More

In our first session this term we will be reading 'The Soundproof Study: Victorian Professional Identity and Urban noise' in John M. Picker, Victorian Soundscapes (Oxford: OUP, 2003), pp.41–81 [also look at pp.15–16 from Ch.1]All welcomeSee More

Rubbish is coming to Birkbeck this summer: a series of events on reading the matter and metaphors of waste and value in and through spaces, objects and language. See More

We have now (finally) finished reading Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception, and will not be meeting again. Many thanks to all those who joined in!See More

This group is no longer running.See More

*** NB: This group is on indefinite hiatus ***The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More