A Heartwork in the Artwork: Caring for Each Other with Music

Date & Time: Thursday, February 22, 2024
5-6:30 pm

Location: Kilachand Common Room, 101
91 Bay State Rd, Boston, MA 02215

Event Description: “Our music has meaning and value for others in ways we may not recognize” (Hoover, 2021, p. 2). What, however, is “our music” and what is “meaning and value?”

In this KHC co-curricular presentation, Dr. Kính T. Vũ will welcome attendees into an active, participatory music-listening, music-making, and music-thinking space where sonic arts might constitute varied sorts of care—care for self, care for others, and care for environment—so needed in strange times.

Vũ’s workshop will draw on scholarly works by Hoover (2021) and Noddings (1984); a KHC crowd-sourced playlist; live music; and the presenter’s musical experiences with students, research participants, innocent bystanders, and friends.

Attendance: (For Kilachand Honors College Students) At the event, a QR will be posted for you to check-in. This QR will expire so please complete the check-in form immediately. You must check-in to earn co-curricular attendance credit for this event.

Contribute to the crowd-sourced playlist

In preparation for Prof. Vu’s co-curricular event, give us a song you’ve been listening to on repeat and we will add it to our playlist! This form will be open through the evening of February 16.

Featured Student Musicians

  • John (Jack) Osmond (CAS’26, Kilachand)
  • Elijah Gately
  • Qiuwen (Lily) Chen

Learn more about Prof. Vu

My name is Kính T. Vũ, and I am an assistant professor of music at Boston University where I teach music education and fine arts courses such as general music methods, instrumental music lab, and intra-disciplinary arts. During my spring 2022 sabbatical, I began to theorize how salvation narratives are embedded into transnational/transracial adoption and music education, particularly for Asian American adoptees who are music teachers. Previous and ongoing research explores connections between music education and forced human displacement. Along with my colleague André de Quadros we edited the first-ever text on the subject within our field called My Body Was Left on the Street: Music Education and Displacement (Brill–Sense 2020).

Travel, decorating, exercise, and all things sparkly are my obsessions.