Dr. Chude-Sokei Named To The Carnegie Hall Afrofuturism Curatorial Council
Cong
ratulations to BU African American Studies Program Director Louis Chude-Sokei on being named to Carnegie Hall’s Afrofuturism Curatorial Council.
Dr. Chude-Sokei joins four other leading experts in lending their work and their knowledge of Afrofuturism to the creation of this innovative and historic event. Beginning in February 2022, Afrofuturism, Carnegie Hall’s 2022 citywide festival will explore “an ever-expansive aesthetic and practice—where music, visual arts, science fiction, and technology intersect to imagine alternative realities and a liberated future viewed through the lens of Black cultures.”
Dr. Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar who works also in sonic art and archiving. He is professor of English, holder of the George and Joyce Wein Chair in African American Studies, director of the African American Studies Program at Boston University and editor of The Black Scholar one of the oldest and leading journals of Black Studies in the country. His books include The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics and Floating in a Most Peculiar Way: A Memoir.
Read more on the Afrofuturism Curatorial Council here.