The aim of this research seminar is to offer participants a research-oriented platform to engage with questions of security from the dual angle of visuality and the sonic. While visual security studies is now an established modality for analyzing security discourses and practices, the sonic dimension is an emerging modality participants will explore in this seminar. The aim of this seminar is to introduce participants to both dimensions in a broader engagement with a phenomenology of security. The seminar invites participants to produce and present original research papers concentrating on either dimension or both, especially in connection to the everyday dimensions of security as they may experience and witness it in Paris, where they come from, or where they have lived.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Identify and discuss key notions and analytical framework in n visual and sonic critical security studies;
2. Connect complex analytical frameworks to everyday life events, and evaluate their relevance;
3. Develop and write a research paper;
4. Evaluate and synthesize a complex set of literature.
Professional Skills:
1. Research and analysis;
2. Critical thinking;
3. Investigation;
4. Written and oral communication.