27 June & 2 July 2007 - Centre for Cultural Studies - PhD AHRC Training Workshops.

BIOPOWER and the GENEOLOGY of MODERN ARCHITECTURE.

June 27th, 2007
15.00-18.00 v.tba

Sven-Olov Wallenstein
is a Swedish philosopher who has written several books on philosophy, aesthetics and architecture and is the translator of Deleuze, Derrida, Agamben, Hegel, Kant, Ranciere and others. He is a professor at Södertörns University and a researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, as well as the head editor of Site Magazine. A collection of his writings, essays and lectures has just been published by Axl Books.

Eyal Weizman
is the head of Research Architecture at Goldsmiths. His current research is into the relationship between war and architecture in Palestine/Israel and his latest book, Hollow Land, will be published by Verso in June.

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PLUS, the following week, a day long event:

URBAN AUDIOLOGIES

July 2nd, 2007
11am- 6.30 with lunch break and drinks and ents after. v.tba

Julian Henriques
from Goldsmiths College will be speaking about sonics and movement. He is author of 'Sonic Dominance and Reggae Sound System Sessions’, in M. Bull and L. Back (eds.), Auditory Culture, as well as various other essays and articles and has also made numerous TV and film documentaries, including Babymother for Film Four.

Michael Bull
from Sussex University is the author of Sounding out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life, The Auditory Culture Reader and most recently Mobilizing the Social: Sound Technology in Urban Experience. He has studied the mobile music revolution since the arrival of the Sony Walkman in the late 1970s and will be speaking about his latest research into ipod culture and the fashioning of sound.

Vivek Bald
is a New York based filmmaker and music producer. His documentary Taxi-Vala chronicled the lives, experiences and political activism of South Asian immigrant taxi drivers in New York City. He also produces and performs music under the name Siraiki and is co-founder of the groundbreaking Mutiny club night. He will be showing his latest film Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music followed by a Q and A session, as well as talking about his forthcoming audio/visual projects.

Steve 'Kode 9' Goodman
is Lecturer in Media Production at the University of East London and member of the autonomous research collective, the Ccru (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit). He also dj's on London pirate radio and internationally under a number of guises. His research interests include Cybernetic Culture, Sonic Culture, Diasporic futurisms, and he will be presenting from his new book Sonic Warfare.

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Please Note that both workshops are CCS AHRC funded training days put on for CCS PhD students. Attendance will be strictly limited. For further information or to book a place please contact Jeff Kinkle (e-mail CCS) for Biopower and the Genealogy of Architecture or Alison Hulme (e-mail CCS) for Urban Audiologies. Please bare in mind that early registration is advised as in order to make these events as intensive and engaging as possible there will be specific readings sent out which workshop participants will be expected to have read in advance.