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Saturday, March 24
 

4:00pm

Roundtable: Feminist and Queer Studies of Race in Sound

This roundtable convenes two fields of scholarly inquiry—critical race studies and feminist theory/queer studies—to explore the following interrelated questions: How does sound construct racialized and gendered meaning and/or prompt processes of racial subjection? How might various hermeneutics of sound enrich and/or expand current ethnic and gender studies approaches to the study of racial formation? And how might we collectively forge a feminist, queer analytic for the study of racialized sound and sonic processes of racialization?

With: Kirstie Dorr, Roshanak Kheshti, and Deborah Vargas

Moderator: Kevin Fellezs

Speakers

Kirstie Dorr

Kirstie Dorr received her Ph.D. in Comparative Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006. Prior to her appointment at UCSD in 2009, Dr. Dorr held a postdoctoral fellowship in African American Studies at the University of Illinois and a subsequent tenure-track appointment in the departments of African American, Latina/Latino and Gender and Women’s Studies.   Abstract: | | "Feminist and Queer Studies of Race in Sound" This roundtable convenes two fields of...
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Kevin Fellezs

Kevin Fellezs is assistant professor of Music with an appointment in the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. He earned his PhD in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz in 2004. He is the author of Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk and the Creation of Fusion Music (Duke, 2011) and of several articles on black-Asian musical exchanges.   Abstract: | | "Another Song: Contemplating Karen Carpenter's Suburban Soul Music and An Aesthetics of Mainstream...
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Roshanak Kheshti

Roshanak Kheshti is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and Affiliate Faculty in Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is completing a manuscript entitled Touching Hearing: the Aural Imaginary in the World Music Culture Industry, which explores the centrality of racialized gender to world music. She has published in Theatre Survey, Hypatia, American Quarterly and Parallax.   Abstract: | | "Feminist and Queer Studies of Race in Sound" This roundtable...
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Deborah Vargas

Deborah Vargas is Associate Professor in the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her first book Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. Vargas has contributed oral histories of several singers she has researched for the Smithsonian Institution Latino Music Oral History Project.   Abstract: | | "Feminist and Queer Studies of Race in Sound" This roundtable convenes two fields...
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Saturday March 24, 2012 4:00pm - 6:00pm
NYU’s Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life (KC) (60 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012)
  804/805 KC   Roundtable

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