Dr Jonathan Sterne
Dr. Jonathan Sterne is associate professor and chair of the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. He is author of The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke, 2003), and numerous articles on media, technologies and the politics of culture. His next book is tentatively entitled MP3: The Meaning of a Format. He is also an editor of Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life, one of the longest continuously-running publications on the Internet.
Dr Sterne was an invited guest speaker at the Technologies of Listening Workshop during his tour of Australia during July and August 2009. Dr Sterne presented seminars and public lectures as well as ‘open door days’ in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney to meet with researchers working in the broad areas of sound, music, technology, media studies, and cultural studies. Go to Dr Sterne’s website http://sterneworks.org/

Professor  Charles Husband
Professor Charles Husband is a Fellow of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland and holds the Chair of Social Analysis, Bradford University, England. Charles Husband specialises in the politics of diversity and ethnic relations in multiethnic societies and is the author of The Right to be Understood (1996). Over the last ten years and more, a significant amount of Husband’s time has been committed to international networks that have had the aim of generating a new cohort of young researchers with competence in inter-disciplinary research in the area of ethnic relations.

Prof Husband was an invited guest of The Listening Project and the senior mentor for the ECR/Postgraduate workshop in November 2008. During his visit he also provided generous mentoring for The Listening Project team and was an invited respondent at the publications workshop for the themed edition of Continuum. Go to Prof Husband’s website http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/socsci/staff/departmental/husband_c/

Dr Kate Lacey
Kate was an invited guest speaker at the Listening Futures Symposium, December 2009. The abstract for her public lecture can be found in past events on this site Listening overlooked: Rethinking media and the public sphere. Go to Dr Lacey’s website.

Professor Nick Couldry
Professor Nick Couldry visited the Listening Project in February 2010 as an invited discussant and mentor. During his visit Nick delivered two public lectures, presented a post-graduate workshop on methodologies and was the discussant at the colloquium “Listening for Media Justice” convened by Dr Tanja Dreher. He is Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy .  His interests include media power, ritual dimensions of media, audience research, media ethics, the methodology of cultural studies and voice.