American Studies and the Gender and Sexuality Center from Carlton College are co-sponsoring "Remote Intimacies: From Relocations to the Empty Orchestra" presented by Karen Tognson. This talk will be held in Gould Library Athenaeum at Carleton College on Wednesday, April 24th at 4:30pm.
"Remote Intimacies: From Relocations to the Empty Orchestra"
Wednesday, April 24, 4:30PM
Gould Library Athenaeum
Carleton College
This multimedia presentation explores the music and migrations, which animated Togson's first book, Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries, and continues to inspire her current work on aesthetics, karaoke, imitation, and critical/sexual geographies.
This talk is sponsored by the Endowed Fund for Academic Programs in LGBT Studies to the Women's and Gender Studies program, and co-sponsored by American Studies and the Gender and Sexuality Center.
Karen Tongson bio:
Associate Professor Karen Tongson joined the USC faculty in English and Gender Studies in fall 2005. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to USC, Tongson held a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship in Literature at UC San Diego, and a UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) Residential Research Fellowship at UC Irvine. Tongson's work on popular culture, queer studies, performance, music and literature has appeared in such journals as Social Text, GLQ, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and The International Journal of Communication, as well as in the anthologies Queering the Popular Pitch (Routledge), and The Blackwell Companion to LGBTQ Studies (eds. Haggerty and McGarry). Her first book, Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries, was published August 1, 2011, as part of the New York University Press Sexual Cultures Series. Professor Tongson is also a co-founder of the culture industry webzine OH! INDUSTRY (2007-2010). She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Popular Music Studies (alongside Gustavus Stadler), Series Editor of Postmillennial Pop at NYU Press (with Henry Jenkins), and Events Editor for the journal American Quarterly. Her latest book project, Empty Orchestra: Karaoke. Critical. Apparatus. offers a critique of prevailing paradigms of originality and imitation in aesthetics and critical theory, while exploring karaoke cultures, technologies, techniques and desires.
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