Experimental Humanities Program, Art History and Visual Culture Program, and Bard Ethnomusicology Present
Prof. Jeffers Englehardt
Amherst College, Yale University of Sacred Music
Ambient Religion, Arvo Pärt, and
the Precarity of Europe
Monday, April 18, 2016
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
This talk takes up the intensifying precarity of Europe as a political, cultural, and moral imaginary through the idea of ambient religion in the making and representation of European public life and historical consciousness. Prof. Englehardt pays particular attention to the sonic aspects of ambient religion int he work of Arvo Pärt, his collaborations with Robert Wilson, involvement in European Capital of Culture projects, and Pärt's implicaton in European responses to terrorism and the ongoing refugee crisis. And he suggests, in moments of precarity, the ambient light of religion can become a spotlight on religion, race and civilization essences - the thing that critics of a Pärt-like post-security fear.5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
For more information, call 845-758-4388, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema