The Human Rights Project and the Center for Curatorial Studies
at Bard College invite you to join us at a one-day conference on
MUSIC AND TORTURE
to be held in conjunction with the opening of, and taking place at, Olafur
Eliasson's "Parliament of Reality" installation, on Friday 15 May.
Schedule of speakers
10:30AM Opening remarks
10:45AM Chloe Davies, Reprieve and ZeroDB (London)
on music torture
11:30AM David Peisner, SPIN Magazine
"Bring The Noise: How music found its way into American
interrogation booths"
12:15PM John Hamilton, Comparative Literature, NYU
"Torture as an Instrument of Music" (on the brazen bull of
Phalaris)
1:00PM LUNCH + ZeroDB silent protest recording session
2:00PM Thomas Levin, German, Princeton University
"Diabolus in Musica: A Playdoyer for Painful Sounds"
2:45PM Branden Joseph, Art History, Columbia University
"Biomusic"
3:30PM Keynote address by Mark Danner, Chace Professor of Foreign
Affairs, Politics, and Humanities
4:15PM Roundtable discussion moderated by Suzanne Cusick, Music, NYU
5:00PM Closing remarks
In the event of rain, all events will take place in the Multipurpose Room,
Bertelsmann Campus Center.
Additional support for the conference provided by the Goethe-Institut New
York.
Please let me or Danielle Riou (riou@bard.edu, x 7110) know if you have any
questions.
- Tom Keenan
at Bard College invite you to join us at a one-day conference on
MUSIC AND TORTURE
to be held in conjunction with the opening of, and taking place at, Olafur
Eliasson's "Parliament of Reality" installation, on Friday 15 May.
Schedule of speakers
10:30AM Opening remarks
10:45AM Chloe Davies, Reprieve and ZeroDB (London)
on music torture
11:30AM David Peisner, SPIN Magazine
"Bring The Noise: How music found its way into American
interrogation booths"
12:15PM John Hamilton, Comparative Literature, NYU
"Torture as an Instrument of Music" (on the brazen bull of
Phalaris)
1:00PM LUNCH + ZeroDB silent protest recording session
2:00PM Thomas Levin, German, Princeton University
"Diabolus in Musica: A Playdoyer for Painful Sounds"
2:45PM Branden Joseph, Art History, Columbia University
"Biomusic"
3:30PM Keynote address by Mark Danner, Chace Professor of Foreign
Affairs, Politics, and Humanities
4:15PM Roundtable discussion moderated by Suzanne Cusick, Music, NYU
5:00PM Closing remarks
In the event of rain, all events will take place in the Multipurpose Room,
Bertelsmann Campus Center.
Additional support for the conference provided by the Goethe-Institut New
York.
Please let me or Danielle Riou (riou@bard.edu, x 7110) know if you have any
questions.
- Tom Keenan
