The Unbearable Lightness of Being Chiang Wen-yeh: War, Colonialism, and the Cultural Revolution

Speaker
Dr Gavin Lee
Event date
Event time
15:00
Venue
Schwarzman Centre
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Venue details

Cinema

Event type
Lectures and seminars
Event cost
Free
Disabled access?
Yes
Booking required
Not required

Gavin S. K. Lee is a Senior Lecturer at Sydney Conservatorium and Elizabeth Wood fellow at the University of Adelaide, who specializes in Sinophone, global and LGBTQ+ music history. Previously, he was a visiting scholar at Western Sydney University (2022-3) and taught at Soochow University, China for nine years. A former editor of the International Musicological Society’s publication Musicological Brainfood, Lee has presented guest lectures in the US, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan and China, including a keynote for the Musicological Society of Australia 2023 conference. He is the editor of Queer Ear (OUP, 2024 SMT award), Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music (Routledge), and the special journal issues Global Musical Modernisms (TCM) and Global Music History Course Design (JMHP).

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