Join us on February 4 at 12:30 pm for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Ioanida Costache of Stanford University, Department of Music. This talk is co-sponsored by the Eurasia Research Cluster (supported by the Public Humanities Hub) and the UBC School of Music.
View the recording of this talk here:
Title: “Attuning to the Roma”
Abstract: The talk will explore aspects of Roma Holocaust testimony and its sonic legacy in the context of the contemporary politics of “sounding Roma” in the Romanian public sphere.
Bio: Ioanida Costache is a doctoral candidate specializing in ethnomusicology at Stanford. Her dissertation, which she will defend in April 2021, explores issues of race and ethnicity, performance/construction of identity, affect, cultural memory, trauma, and history as they intersect in Romani musico-oral traditions of Romania. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Research Grant and Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship and visiting fellowships at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Other areas of interest include embodiment, applied ethnomusicology, and alternative epistemologies. Her most recent work has appeared in Critical Romani Studies, The Bridge: The Magazine of Academia Balkanica Europeana, and Decat o Revista.
Featured image credits:
Ceija Stojka
Auschwitz, 1944. Ohne Worte.
14.02.2006
Ink on cardboard
50 x 37 cm
