2022-2023

Graduate Work-in-Progress - Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Signifies: Troping on Bach and other African American Cultural Topics

 

New analytical techniques are still in the process of development for works by African American composers such as Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, who was known for his film and concert music. In his lecture Christopher Jenkins, PhD candidate in the Department of Music, examines several of his solo works and proposes his compositional technique reflected the African American cultural practice of signifyin(g), or troping on ambiguous or coded source material.  

Braided and Unbraided Memories: The Journey of Helena Broder During the Holocaust

Braided Memories: Diaspora, Memorialization, and Identity

On the Threshold of Oblivion: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors in Chile

Against Optimization 

Jia Tolentino
 

Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror. Formerly, she was the deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at the Hairpin. Her talk will focus on thinking toward radical alternate visions of value, aspiration, and potential.

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Your Healing is Killing Me

The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents

Lisa Damour
 

Soul Force: The Challenge of Martin Luther King, Jr

What We Learned While Alone: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic

Navigating Family Secrets and Healing Intergenerational Trauma: A Reading and Conversation with Cassandra Lane