April 25, 2025 | 3:30PM
Fulton Recital Hall, Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Listening for Otherwise Aliveness in the Chinese Canadian Home for Geriatric Care
Yun Emily Wang
Assistant Professor of Music at Duke University
About Yun Emily Wang
Yun Emily Wang is Assistant Professor of Music and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. Emily is an ethnographer of sound, music, and listening who likes to think with transnational Asian/Asian American studies and queer and feminist thought, and is broadly interested in how aural subjectivities are (de)formed by— and expressive of— difference as a relational modality. Her first book traces otherwise modes of listening in everyday life among Chinese immigrants under Canadian liberal multiculturalism, and consider the queer ways of being such listening enables. Their second project asks how silence and quietude hold space for Taiwan’s unspeakable counterhistories. Emily has publications in or forthcoming from Ethnomusicology, Women and Music (for which she currently serves as a co-editor), Resonance, City & Society, and American Music, among others. Her work has been recognized by prizes from the Society for Ethnomusicology, Society for Asian Music, and the Society for Queer Asian Studies. Emily plays the Chinese two-stringed spike fiddle (erhu), but only with a critical distance.