We live in worlds of sound. Our everyday lives are made up of thousands of actions whereby we learn to muffle, amplify, avoid and live with the promiscuous sounds that surround us. This talk by Professor Brian Larkin will explore these ecologies of sound – what it means to live with them and the machines that make them. This talk will be held in English.

Faculty Focus is part part of the SNF Rendez-Vous de l'Institut: The Fellows' Series, organized by the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. It is co-sponsored by Columbia Global Centers | Paris.

For the Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare Festival of 1957, the American composers Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn created Such Sweet Thunder, a jazz concert honoring Shakespeare. This talk will examine scores and recordings of Duke and Strays’ dark bluesy “harlemizations” of certain Shakespearean scenes and characters. This event will be held in English.

The Entre Nous series is co-organized by Columbia Global Centers | Paris, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and The American Library in Paris.