RITM Lecture Series: Tao Leigh Goffe, “Chiney Royal Riddim: The Racial Economies of Reggae and Chinese Infrastructure”

Event time: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
William L. Harkness Hall, 116 See map
100 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Tao Leigh Goffe is a writer and sound artist specializing in the narratives that emerge from histories of imperialism, migration, and globalization. She is an assistant professor of literary theory and cultural history at Cornell University. There she is the director of the Afro-Asia Group, an advisory consortium for designing and imagining African and Asian diasporic entanglements into the future. She received her Bachelor’s degree in English from Princeton University and PhD in American studies from Yale University. Her interdisciplinary research and practice examines the unfolding relationship between ecology, infrastructure, and the multi-sensorial register. DJ’ing, sound editing, digital cartography, immersive technologies, and oral history are integral to her praxis. Dr. Goffe has held academic positions at New York University, Leiden University in the Netherlands, and Princeton University. Her research has been quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Vice. Her writing has been published in Small Axe, Amerasia, Boston Review, and Public Books

Admission: 
Free