Lecture “Your Song Sets Me Free”
Join us for an evening with Dr. Emery Petchauer, Professor of English and Teacher Education at Michigan State University, and visiting Professor with RU-N’s Department of Urban Education. Dr. Petchauer is an award-winning researcher and educator, veteran turntablist and crate digger, and tenured professor. He is the author or editor of four books and over 40 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and editorials. As a community accountable artist, he has established or helped sustain intergenerational spaces of expression over the past 20 years in each city he has lived in: San Diego; Philadelphia; Norfolk, VA; Detroit, and Pontiac, MI. Dr. Petchauer has received teaching awards at both the high school and college levels, including the Board of Trustees Distinguished Teaching Award at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the nation’s first Historically Black University, and the 2018 Innovation in Research on Equity and Social Justice in Teacher Education Award from Division K of the American Educational Research Association.
His lecture traces the patterns of encounter that reroute expression, togetherness, and performance in intergenerational community spaces where people write songs, make beats, play instruments, and make a lot of noise. Specifically, Dr. Petchauer explores the form and formlessness of these encounters: critical connections that supersede critical mass, ephemera that inspire young writers toward liberation, and the abolitionist impulse to continually remake the formations through which study, expression, and performance take place. What new relations emerge between the living forms we think we know? This talk will be of interest to urban education scholars, music and sound enthusiasts, and community-based artists who work with youth.
This event is free and open to the public (registration required) and is sponsored by the Department of Urban Education, the department of English, and the Global Urban Studies program at Rutgers University-Newark. Registrants may attend online or in person.
Time: 6:00 PM EST
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