Tomie Hahn: “Memories of Sense—Tracing the Ephemeral in Research and Creative Practice”

Ethnomusicology Lecture

Tomie Hahn is an artist and ethnomusicologist. Her research and creative work spans a range of area topics including Japanese performance, Monster Truck rallies, transmission, the senses, embodiment, dance, multiracial expressivity, and contemplative practices. Her scholarly and creative work is cited as contributing to the "sensory turn" in scholarly research, specifically her monograph Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance (Wesleyan University Press) and Arousing Sense: Recipes for Workshopping Sensory Experience (University of Illinois Press). She is Professor emerita in the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she also served as the Director of the Center for Deep Listening. She is currently Past President of the Society for Ethnomusicology.