Join us tonight for a presentation from PhD student Ronit Ghosh! “Mapping Jazz in India and India in Jazz: Improvisations and Encounters” Abstract: Studying jazz in early twentieth century India involves tracking its myriad routes, its multiple mediations and the discursive horizons it forged and within which it operated and still operates. Even a cursory glance at the ways in which jazz has […]

Please join us this evening at 5:00pm CT for a presentation from U Chicago alumnus and visiting Senior Fulbright Fellow Chun-bin Chen! Abstract: This paper aims to support and expand James Clifford’s debate on indigenous diasporas. He notes that indigenous diaspora is not a condition of exile, and a return of indigenous diasporas may take many […]

Join us this evening at 5:00pm for a workshop presentation by PhD Candidate Hannah Rogers! Abstract: In retrospect, Mardi Gras 2020 marked the beginning of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in New Orleans. Murmurs about the virus circulated here as elsewhere, but at the time the threat itself seemed still distant, even as thousands […]

Join us this evening for a presentation from visiting professor Dr. Sylvia Alajaji! “Legibility and its Discontents: Reflections on the Cacophonies of the Armenian Diaspora” This talk will serve as a meditation on what, in essence, is an epistemological question: what is Armenian music? It is a question whose ripples extend far: into the nature […]