Current and Upcoming Seminars
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The Unbearable "Lightness" of Life: Noise, Power Structure and the Studiolization of Nature
-Noise is a complicated concept which definition is controversial. Depending on the objective decibel value and the subjective understanding of what is considered as unwanted sound, there can be various interpretations. When technology developed into the industrial age, noise was completely changed and has become both a serious social issue...
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In Search of Home, Sweet Home, c. 1871
-Few songs of the British nineteenth century have had the staying power of ‘Home, Sweet Home’. With music by Henry Bishop and words by John Howard Payne, it first appeared in Clari; or, the Maid of Milan (1823) at London’s Covent Garden. The song remained in the repertory well into...