Public Lecture with the Center for Visual Culture entitled “Sounds from Dangerous Places: Sonic Journalism”. In this keynote lecture, Peter Cusack asks “what can we learn from dangerous places by listening to their sounds? The talk will include recordings and photographs from Chernobyl, the Caspian Oil fields, and the Aral Sea, Kazakhstan and will forcus on how “dangerous places” (military zones, polluted areas, etc.) can be both sonically and visually compelling, even beautiful and atmospheric.