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Research Institute Spotlight Event

Ioanida Costache, "Sounding 'Other' wise: Roma, Sound, Race” in conversation with Stephen Sano

Date
Wed November 6th 2024, 12:00 - 1:30pm PST
Location
Building 360
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), 450 Jane Stanford Way Building 360, Stanford, CA 94305
CCSRE Conference Room
Event Sponsor
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity

Within the European imaginary Romani people have served as an “Ontological Other,” in post-Enlightenment thought (Wynter 1987). Against a backdrop of centuries of racialization this talk asks: How might sound and music help to augment a Romani subjectivity that is informed by this racialized abjection. How might sound recuperate subjectivities stifled through the dehumanization of racialization? By reframing the exclusionary processes of Othering as a way of being and sounding “Otherwise”—beyond the negative interpellations and subjectification—this talk engages Roma music and sound as a space to perform repair from the alienation racialization begets

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