Race + Media Theory - A Symposium

Event time: 
Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 11:30am
Location: 
Gordon Parks Room, African American Studies Dept See map
81 Wall Street
Event description: 

Thursday, March 31st, 11:30am-3pm

Gordon Parks Room, African American Studies Department, 81 Wall Street. Lunch will be provided

PANEL 1: 11.45-1.15

Alexander Weheliye, Northwestern, “Hotline Bling: Gendered Technologies in R&B Music”
Kandice Chuh, CUNY, “A Sense of Difference”

PANEL 2: 1.30-3

Brian Hochman, Georgetown, “Shelf Life: The Sound of Race on Wax, 1890/2015”
Daphne Brooks, Yale, “‘If You Should Lose Me’: The Archive, the Critic, The Record Shop & the Blues Woman”
 

Jointly presented by the Department of African American Studies, the Women’s,
Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the American Studies Department’s Public
Humanities Program, and the English Department’s Americanist and Race,
Gender, and Sexuality Studies Colloquia Ÿ* raceandmediatheory.wordpress.com