Friday, May 18 in Collier House from 3:30-4 PM

This week at THEME Dr. Juan Eduardo Wolf will be presenting a paper, and Alison Kaufman will be giving a report on How Everything Went At Kalamazoo.

Dr. Wolf’s talk is:

“Celebrating Ch’ixi? Attempts at Including Afro-descendant Ideas in Latin American Anti-Colonial Theory”

This work-in-progress talk is focused at examining the anti-colonial ideas of the ch’ixi, as espoused by Aymara sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui. Looking at the case of interwoven carnival practice in northern Chile, I question how ideas of the presence of Afro-descendants as First Nations might complement Rivera’s ideas.

Founded by Professor Steve Larson at the University of Oregon, THEME is an interdisciplinary colloquium of faculty and student researchers in music theory (T), musicology/music history (H), ethnomusicology (E), and music education (ME).