[Liuhum] Invitation to the seminar 15/04

[Olga Zabalueva]

Dear colleagues,

LiU-Humanities, Tema Q (Culture and Society) and Tema G (Gender Studies) at Linköping university are happy to invite you to the Zoom seminar with our guest from Linnaeus University next week:


Thursday 15 April 13:15-15:00

Eóin Ó Cuinneagáin

Responding to the Coloniality of Audibility with Decolonial/Gaelic Sonorities
Eóin is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University, Sweden. His dissertation investigates the triadic mapping of Irish land, painting of Irish landscapes and annotation of Irish melodies during the 19th century, in which he presents (de)coloniality as a research methodology to investigate these processes. His thesis argues that this anglocentric colonial drive to map/paint/annotate constructed the Gaelic subject as an object of knowledge. His thesis suggests that decolonizing our perception of these phenomena requires Gaelic epistemology and language to be central in how these histories are embodied, performed, retold, analysed and imagined.

Zoom link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/69992182037
Meeting ID: 699 9218 2037

Warm welcome!

Abstract:

Rebecca Schneider (2011: 17) observes that the dominance of the document ties into geopolitical normativity in relation to what comprises memory remains and ‘proper’ archives. She describes how “live embodied acts of retelling history”, such as those enacted through oral tradition, were frozen in time by the construction of the centrally controlled paper archive. Temi Odumosu (2019) revises Schneider’s concept of reperformance and places it within the “affectively charged colonial archive” considering what it means to enact the “reparative gesture” towards a decolonial ethics of retelling the memory of those silenced, peripheral, nameless and under duress inside the colonial archive.

In this paper I ask whether decolonial/Gaelic sonorities, found in the co-constructive live indigenous art practices of amhránaíocht (‘songing’) and scéalaíocht (storytelling) can be reperformed to challenge the anglocentric/eurocentric control on knowledge and taste within universities and aesthetic domains in Ireland and elsewhere. Building on the idea of the coloniality of perception (Tlostanova, 2017), I suggest referring to the anglicized/westernized expropriation from Gaelic sonorities as establishing a coloniality of audibility. The paper asks whether through an embodied technique referred to as Casadh an Amhráin (a turning of the song) – a reperformance of the oral lyric and the vocal intone – the coloniality of audibility can be challenged. Specifically, the paper engages with decolonial/Gaelic poets, Tomás Rua Ó Suilleabháin, Máire Bhuí Ní Laoghaire and Antaine Ó Raifteirí.

Reference(s)
Odumosu, Temi. 2019. “Sensitive Skin”. 2019 Holberg Symposium “From Double Consciousness to Planetary Humanism”. University of Bergen Aula.
Schneider, Rebecca. 2011. Performing Remains Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment. Routledge: New York.
Tlostanova, Madina. 2017. Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art Resistance and Re-existence. Palgrave MacMillan: Cham.


Best regards
Olga Zabalueva
PhD student
[Linköping University]
Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), Tema Q
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