Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for PMA 1183 Guest Speaker: Scholar/Musician Aaron Joseph on Wednesday November 5, 8:40am-9:55am, Hybrid: Eisner Pavillion Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts and on Zoom. This event is presented by PMA 1183 FWS: Hip-Hop’s Global Vibrations (NYC, LA, Southeast Asia), and is free and open to the public.
This session will include a talk on Aaron Joseph's research and artistry on Toronto, Black Studies, and Music at-large.
Join on Zoom: https://bit.ly/pma1183
Aaron Joseph is a graduate student in the Department of Environmental Planning & Urban Change at the University of Toronto. He is also a writer, researcher, and musician. His intellectual work revolves around the city of Toronto and its greater Afro-Diaspora—its hodgepodge urban design, sports and music histories, politics, and the expressive cultures of its Black communities. His writing functions as a form of philosophical anthropology, excavating the deeper meanings and ingrained patterns behind the seemingly mundane aspects of city life. This means that as a cultural critic, he analyzes discarded popular figures, products, and events that live outside of commodity cycles—remnants of the city’s zeitgeist that still hold profound significance. His approach, which could be called the universalizing of particulars, seeks to illuminate the shared narratives that connect us beyond our petits récits.
