A Whistling Girl
What I’m Reading Now
Ahmed, Sara. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. Amazon description: “What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her … Read more »
More Sounds and SourcesPro-vocare: Soundbox CFP
How do we improve the prospects of using audio to produce scholarship? Soundbox is a collaborative doctoral project at Duke University that seeks to answer this question. This two-year initiative “aims to enhance the practice of using sound in scholarly productions” and is led by Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien. The seriousness … Read more »
Read MoreArtists Make Archives Make Artists
My SphinxCon presentation laid out a very simple premise: that our diverse arts and culture archives should be considered an important hub in sustainably diverse arts ecosystems. I include my (rough) presentation notes below. Many thanks to Jaquay “J.J.” McNeal, Columbia College student and former CBMR student worker for his terrific work in designing the … Read more »
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