Join us o n February 4 at 12:30 pm for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series\, featuring Ioanida Costache of Stanford University\, Department of Music. This talk i s co-sponsored by the Eurasia Research Cluster (supported by the Public Hum anities Hub) and the UBC School of Music.
View the recording of this talk here:
Title: "Attuning to the Roma"
Ab stract: The talk will explore aspects of Roma Holocaust testimony and its sonic legacy in the context of the contemporary politics of "soundi ng Roma" in the Romanian public sphere.
Bio: Ioanida Costache is a doctoral candidate specializing in ethnomusicology at Stanfo rd. Her dissertation\, which she will defend in April 2021\, explores issue s of race and ethnicity\, performance/construction of identity\, affect\, c ultural memory\, trauma\, and history as they intersect in Romani musico-or al traditions of Romania. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Research Gran t and Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship and visiting fellowship s at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the Jack\, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at t he U.S. Holocaust Museum. Other areas of interest include embodiment\, appl ied ethnomusicology\, and alternative epistemologies. Her most recent work has appeared in Critical Romani Studies\, The Bridge: The Magazine of Acade mia Balkanica Europeana\, and Decat o Revista.
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Ceija Stojka
Auschwitz\, 1944. Ohne Worte.
14.02.200
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Ink on cardboard
50 x 37 cm