Upcoming Event: The 2023 Silas Peirce Lecture
On Beethoven, Blackness, and Belonging: Debating German Music Across the Black Atlantic
Kira Thurman (Associate professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and History, University of Michigan)
Date & Time: February 13, 2023 at 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
Co-sponsored by BU CAS, BU CFA, and BU Arts Initiative.
Register on BU Alumni’s website.
About the Event
What has classical music meant to Black people? Why have African Americans listened to and performed a genre of music that many Americans now consider to be white, elitist, and Eurocentric? Such accusations aren’t inaccurate: for example, African Americans represent only 1.8 percent of all orchestra musicians today.
About the Silas Peirce Lecture
The annual Silas Peirce Lecture is open to all fields of inquiry covered in the College of Arts & Sciences, and is designed to represent different fields across the years. These lectures bring our academic community together across multiple disciplines, including colleges, and interest faculty, students, and alumni. Given Silas Peirce’s deep roots in the Boston area, topics of special relevance to this region are welcomed.