This talk will reflect on, and attempt to contextualize, the Gezi Park protests of May 2013. What does this decade of more or less global protest have to tell us about the place of sound, and the human voice, in protest and in public space more generally? The talk will look back at various highly...

Considered the most mature and progressive art movement in the Arab world through most of the second half of the twentieth century, Iraqi art faced debilitating challenges through the sanctions of the 1990s and then the invasion of 2003. While the sanctions and wars changed the nature of Iraqi...