Ioanida Costache “Attuning to the Roma”
A Sawchen lecture by Ioanida Costache
Abstract: This talk explores aspects of Roma Holocaust testimony and its sonic legacy in the context of the contemporary politics of “sounding Roma” in the Romanian public sphere.
Bio: Ioanida Costache is a doctoral candidate specializing in ethnomusicology at Stanford. Her dissertation, which she will defend in April 2021, explores issues of race and ethnicity, performance/construction of identity, affect, cultural memory, trauma, and history as they intersect in Romani musico-oral traditions of Romania. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Research Grant and Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship and visiting fellowships at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Other areas of interest include embodiment, applied ethnomusicology, and alternative epistemologies. Her most recent work has appeared in Critical Romani Studies, The Bridge: The Magazine of Academia Balkanica Europeana, and Decat o Revista.