“Around the World in a Day”: Traversing Cities & Borders in Bowie & Prince (conference session)

Name: “Around the World in a Day”: Traversing Cities & Borders in Bowie & Prince (conference session)
Start: 2017-01-27T14:15:00-05:00
End: 2017-01-27T15:45:00-05:00
Location: “Around the World in a Day”: Traversing Cities & Borders in Bowie & Prince (conference session)

1.27.17 | 2:15pm–3:45pm

Side-by-side closeups of David Bowie and Prince

January 27, 2017 | 2:15pm–3:45pm |

Location:

Yale University Art Gallery see map
1111 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06520

Event description:

“Around the World in a Day”: Traversing Cities & Borders in Bowie & Prince

Speakers:

Josh Kun, Professor of Communications, University of Southern California, “Mister Prince and Man, Ruler of the World: Heroes Across the Border”

Zaheer Ali, Lecturer, New York University; Brooklyn Historical Society Oral Historian, “That Ain’t Lake Minnetonka!: Prince’s Sonic and Spatial (Re-) Making of Minneapolis”

Alexander Weheliye, Professor of African American Studies, Northwestern University, “New Waves, Shifting Terrains: Prince’s and David Bowie’s Transatlantic Crossovers”

Moderator: Emily Lordi, Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Featured image: “Blackstar Rising & The Purple Reign: Celebrating the Legacies of David Bowie and Prince,” will explore the legacies of these two iconic musicians in four days of discussions, critical listening, and musical performances.