IMPORTANT
CURRENTS: Whitney Schwab and Jessica Berman
Humanities Work Now
Monday, November 2, 2020 · 12 - 1 PM
CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now lunchtime series showcases exciting new faculty work in the humanities in a dynamic and inter-disciplinary setting.
The Origin of the Concept of Knowledge
Whitney Schwab, Associate Professor, Philosophy; Dresher Center Summer 2020 Faculty Fellow
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Radio Relations in the Global South
Jessica Berman, Professor of English and Director of the Dresher Center for the HumanitiesThis talk will discuss the ways that radio in the Global South offers a sound environment where varieties of aesthetic practice as well as new habits of social relation can emerge. Dr. Berman will briefly discuss two examples from radio in Jamaica and Argentina: Jamaican Patois performance and poetry by Louise Bennett-Coverly and the gender-role defying Tango singers of 1930s Argentina. Berman's presentation will sketch out how the intermedial protocols of radio proliferate vernaculars, voices, and varieties of embodiment that push back on imperial and state-based social relations.