"Made Instrument: Care"

Dr. Ashon Crawley will be reading from his in-progress work, Made Instrument, about the AIDS crisis and the sound of the Black Church.

Exploring care work, healthcare industry and black sonic practices for black life, the chapter "Care," argues that otherwise epistemologies for care exist and we can look to them for models set against the normative world and its ongoing racial capitalist violence.

Dr. Crawley is Professor of Religious Studies & African and African American Studies,  University of Virginia

Sponsors:

• Humanities Center Coor Programming Award
• Mollie Davis Ruprecht Fund for Visiting Artists, Program in Art and Art History, School of the Arts
• Department of Religion
• Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Program
• Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Program
• Health and Society Program
• Mosaic Center for Students of Color