Upcoming Events:
April 6
Student/Faculty Reading Group: Tsitsi Jaji, selections from Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity (Oxford UP, 2014)
3:30-4:30pm / Room 423, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
April 13
Tsitsi Jaji (UPenn, Duke): Public Lecture: "Notebooks for the Return of Native Lands"
5:30-7:30pm / Wells Fargo Auditorium, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
NB: Brown-Bag lunch with graduate students from 12:00-1:00pm in Early Library (FH 228)
May 3
Work-in-Progress: Louis Niebur, Assoc. Professor of Music, Title TBA
3:30-4:30pm / Faculty & Graduate Reading Room, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
Past Events (Fall 2015):
September 10
Student/Faculty Reading Group: Charles Hirschkind, “Introduction” to The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics (Columbia UP, 2006) and Tara Rodgers, "Toward a Feminist Historiography of Electronic Music”
3:30-4:30pm / Faculty & Graduate Reading Room, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
**Please write to Dan Morse for copies of the readings: dmorse@unr.edu
September 10
Opening Reception: Sound Art: New Only in Name. Co-curated by faculty members Brett Van Hoesen of the Department of Art and Jean-Paul Perrotte of the Department of Music, this exhibition offers a critical investigation of the notion that sound art is a new form (on view until October 9).
5pm / Jot Travis Building
October 8
Work-in-Progress: Dan Morse, Asst. Professor of English: “Ulysses and the Rise of the Digital Audiobook”
3:30-4:30pm / Faculty & Graduate Reading Room, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
November 5
Work-in-Progress: Nathan Ragain, Postdoctoral Scholar, English: "Are Negroes Sound?: Sun Ra, the Nation of Islam, and Sonic Blackness"
3:30-4:30pm / Faculty & Graduate Reading Room, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
November 10
Screening of Pride (2014), a feature film from the UK about lesbian and gay support for the UK miners’ strike in the 1980s. The film is an entertaining and moving account of the real-life solidarity between queer and labor radicalism under Thatcher. It's also saturated with music, sonically linking Bronski Beat, Grace Jones, Sylvester, Smokey Robinson, Billy Bragg, and “Solidarity Forever.”
Followed by a Q&A with Louis Niebur (Music) and Emily Hobson (History)
7:00-9:00pm / MIKC 124 (auditorium)
December 2
Work-in-Progress: Katherine Fusco, Asst. Professor of English, "Sexing Farina: Racial Fantasies of Episodic Gender in the Early Hal Roach Our Gang Comedies"
5:30-6:45pm / AB 106
January 29
Student/Faculty Reading Group: Stephan Pennington, "Transgender Passing Guides and the Vocal Performance of Gender and Sexuality"
3-4pm / Faculty & Graduate Reading Room, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
February 5
Stephan Pennington (Tufts): Public Lecture: "Billy Tipton's "My Wubba Dolly": Transgender Negative Disidentification and Radicalized Femininity."
2:30-4:30pm / Church Fine Arts 110
April 6
Student/Faculty Reading Group: Tsitsi Jaji, selections from Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity (Oxford UP, 2014)
3:30-4:30pm / Room 423, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
April 13
Tsitsi Jaji (UPenn, Duke): Public Lecture: "Notebooks for the Return of Native Lands"
5:30-7:30pm / Wells Fargo Auditorium, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
NB: Brown-Bag lunch with graduate students from 12:00-1:00pm in Early Library (FH 228)
May 3
Work-in-Progress: Louis Niebur, Assoc. Professor of Music, Title TBA
3:30-4:30pm / Faculty & Graduate Reading Room, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
Past Events (Fall 2015):
September 10
Student/Faculty Reading Group: Charles Hirschkind, “Introduction” to The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics (Columbia UP, 2006) and Tara Rodgers, "Toward a Feminist Historiography of Electronic Music”
3:30-4:30pm / Faculty & Graduate Reading Room, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
**Please write to Dan Morse for copies of the readings: dmorse@unr.edu
September 10
Opening Reception: Sound Art: New Only in Name. Co-curated by faculty members Brett Van Hoesen of the Department of Art and Jean-Paul Perrotte of the Department of Music, this exhibition offers a critical investigation of the notion that sound art is a new form (on view until October 9).
5pm / Jot Travis Building
October 8
Work-in-Progress: Dan Morse, Asst. Professor of English: “Ulysses and the Rise of the Digital Audiobook”
3:30-4:30pm / Faculty & Graduate Reading Room, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
November 5
Work-in-Progress: Nathan Ragain, Postdoctoral Scholar, English: "Are Negroes Sound?: Sun Ra, the Nation of Islam, and Sonic Blackness"
3:30-4:30pm / Faculty & Graduate Reading Room, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
November 10
Screening of Pride (2014), a feature film from the UK about lesbian and gay support for the UK miners’ strike in the 1980s. The film is an entertaining and moving account of the real-life solidarity between queer and labor radicalism under Thatcher. It's also saturated with music, sonically linking Bronski Beat, Grace Jones, Sylvester, Smokey Robinson, Billy Bragg, and “Solidarity Forever.”
Followed by a Q&A with Louis Niebur (Music) and Emily Hobson (History)
7:00-9:00pm / MIKC 124 (auditorium)
December 2
Work-in-Progress: Katherine Fusco, Asst. Professor of English, "Sexing Farina: Racial Fantasies of Episodic Gender in the Early Hal Roach Our Gang Comedies"
5:30-6:45pm / AB 106
January 29
Student/Faculty Reading Group: Stephan Pennington, "Transgender Passing Guides and the Vocal Performance of Gender and Sexuality"
3-4pm / Faculty & Graduate Reading Room, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
February 5
Stephan Pennington (Tufts): Public Lecture: "Billy Tipton's "My Wubba Dolly": Transgender Negative Disidentification and Radicalized Femininity."
2:30-4:30pm / Church Fine Arts 110
