{"title": "Modernist Noisescapes: Writing Sound in Interwar Britain", "start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T19:30:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square", "address": "43 Gordon Square, WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/modernism"], "description": "A research lecture titled 'Modernist Noisescapes: Writing Sound in Interwar Britain', part of the Bloomsbury Research Lecture series. It is given by Anna Snaith, Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at King's College London, whose work covers Virginia Woolf, global modernisms and literary sound studies. The talk examines the preoccupation with noise in interwar Britain, which Aldous Huxley called the 'age of noise', including the Anti-Noise League's framing of noise as a public health issue and the sonic legacy of the First World War. It argues that modernist writers stood at the forefront of this sonic-mindedness, taking Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway as a key exhibit of a novel about noise.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/modernist-noisescapes-writing-sound-in-interwar-britain-80563/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/67452/modernist-noisescapes-writing-sound-in-interwar-britain", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T19:30:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square", "address": "43 Gordon Square, WC1E 7HX London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Trembling City: Book Launch", "start": "2026-11-08T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T16:30:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/war", "science"], "description": "A talk and conversation marking the worldwide launch of the book 'The Trembling City: The Sonic and Atmospheric Violence of Vibrational Warfare', held in the Majlis. 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It is part of 'The Trembling City: Sound and Spatial Justice', a series conceived by Ouzounian with Ibraaz.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-trembling-city-book-launch-36607/", "official_url": "https://ibraaz.org/whats-on/the-trembling-city", "image": ""}, {"title": "Earshot Library-in-Residence", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-06-27T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sound-art", "society/human-rights"], "description": "Earshot Library-in-Residence is a nine-month residency bringing sound into the Iqra as a site of sonic inquiry, where recordings are interrogated and listening is both exercise and method. It is presented by Earshot, the not-for-profit organisation founded by Lawrence Abu Hamdan that uses sound to defend human and environmental rights. The Library is organised across four bodies of work: From the Field, a multichannel audio experience of field recordings, and three listening stations — The Crack and the Boom on audio ballistic analysis, Authentic Audio on AI-generated voices and deepfakes, and The Sonic Identikit on profiling sounds and earwitness testimony. 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Drawing on Stuart Hall's cultural studies legacy, it explores sound as a form of learning and cultural exchange, examining the relationship between sound and diasporic experiences. 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It is given by Prof Laudan Nooshin of City St George's, University of London, who reflects on almost 20 years of applied work as a cultural mediator. Her talk covers projects including an educational trip to Iran, a collaboration with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, a children's book project, a sound project in a historic house, and a Leverhulme Trust funded project on Polish refugees in Iran during World War 2. The lecture is free, with tickets booked in advance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-royal-anthropological-institute-blacking-lecture-laudan-64972/", "official_url": "https://therai.org.uk/events/the-royal-anthropological-institute-blacking-lecture-laudan-nooshin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9a5644f15abfcf1ebff40644700bce00a812e08da7a63ef62406bfb1bf30b817-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Re-sounding the East End", "start": "2026-11-16T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Idea Store", "address": "Churchill Place 2, E14 5RB London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sound-art", "history/local-history"], "description": "An evening discussion about the three sound art installations 'Everything is different, nothing has changed', set in the context of the East End's social and public history. It is led by curators and historians Nadia Valman, Tamsin Bookey, Rehana Ahmed and Alan Dein. 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It is led by Clare Pollard, poet and author of Lives of the Female Poets, in collaboration with Dead [Women] Poets Society. Participants are inspired by the female writers who came before them, exploring how to steal, allude, translate, remix, modernise and speak to the dead. There is a particular focus on Amy Levy and Christina Rossetti, the spirits conjured at the séance held later that evening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/learning-from-dead-women-poets-poetry-workshop-with-clare-po-39394/", "official_url": "https://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/whats-on/learning-dead-women-poets-poetry-workshop-clare-pollard", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d6b90d93acfcedeb4f6a1e29f8cf9f2a2b35395852e7c2765a9c3d8da42ea75-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Manton Centre for British Art Lecture: Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Courtauld Institute of Art", "address": "Strand, WC2R 0RN London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image"], "description": "An annual lecture evening at The Courtauld, part of the Manton Centre for British Art, featuring the artist Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA in conversation with Professor Dorothy Price FBA. It is organised by Indie A. Choudhury and Professor Steve Edwards and supported by the Manton Foundation. Akomfrah is a pioneering artist filmmaker whose multi-screen installations explore memory, postcolonialism and time, often through the experience of global migrant diasporas, and he was a founding member of the Black Audio Film Collective.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-manton-centre-for-british-art-lecture-sir-john-akomfrah-69717/", "official_url": "https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/the-manton-centre-for-british-art-lecture-sir-john-akomfrah-cbe-ra/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed77fb91a51975626a8b36f413595b3e3c6b92a6deb2790c36dd307384bb935e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dead [Women] Poets Séance: Sophie Herxheimer & Clare Pollard resurrect Amy Levy & Christina Rossetti", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The London Library", "address": "St James's Square 14, SW1Y 4LG London", "price": "From £8", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening séance at The London Library in which two living poets conjure the spirits of their literary foremothers, the Victorian poets Amy Levy and Christina Rossetti. Poet-mediums Sophie Herxheimer and Clare Pollard will commune with the spirits of these subversive, darkly imaginative outsider poets, sharing their lives, works and influence, with readings haunted by their ghosts and compered by poet Helen Bowell of Dead [Women] Poets Society. The group, who since 2015 have been resurrecting women and non-binary poets of the past, will continue the resurrections with an open mic where poets and performers of all and no genders may take the stage; for every poem of your own, you should also read one by a dead woman or non-binary poet. Books by the guest poets, dead poets and D[W]PS merch will be available.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dead-women-poets-seance-sophie-herxheimer-clare-pollard-resu-39395/", "official_url": "https://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/whats-on/dead-women-poets-seance-sophie-herxheimer-clare-pollard-resurrect-amy-levy-christina", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fb5a2d4b77ab0484788ea3fc28643cd614cba5a354828998d592a276496e82eb-2000.webp"}]}