BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231118T101500 RDATE:20240331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T020000 RDATE:20250330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T020000 RDATE:20260329T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261025T020000 RDATE:20270328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20271031T020000 RDATE:20280326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240331T030000 RDATE:20241027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T030000 RDATE:20251026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T030000 RDATE:20261025T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270328T030000 RDATE:20271031T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:cb3aff982c9d4b2c8ca5f74d74d0a986 CATEGORIES:Séminaire du CREM CREATED:20240910T144238 SUMMARY:Carried by the Winds of Love: On Vocal Celebrity and the Mediation of Intimacy in Somaliland, Christina Woolner LOCATION:Lesc – salle 308F (3e étage) - 21\, allée de l’Université\, Nanterre\, \, 9 2000\, France DESCRIPTION:Avec Christina Woolner*\n(A Reflection in Honour of Khadra Daahir Ciige, 19 57-2022)\nIn this seminar, we will travel deep into the musical world of So mali love(-suffering) via the storied life, love and songs of Hargeysa-born singer Khadra Daahir Ciige. Fondly known as hooyada jacaylka (‘the mother of love’), Khadra is especially beloved for her stirring performances of ca laacal (a genre of love-lament) and a voice that listeners say can ‘make yo u feel what she feels’. While Khadra’s popularity rests squarely on an abil ity to convey deeply felt love experiences in her voice, in this seminar I explore how songs, singers and voices become increasingly ‘sticky, or satur ated with affect’ (as Sahra Ahmed puts it) as they move across both space a nd generation and are envocalized by an ever-expanding number of actors. I specifically consider how love songs’ aesthetic form and artists’ accessibi lity to their fans precipitates a particularly intimate form of talk that p lays a critical role in constantly (re)making the voice of a singer and her public intimate. Weaving together stories that Khadra’s fans tell, stories that Khadra herself told, the texts (and sounds) of her songs, and my own reflections on encountering Khadra, I ultimately aim to demonstrate how the ongoing making of celebrity voice works to mediate intimacy and contribute s to the snowballing ‘stickiness’ of love songs in motion.\n* Christina Woo lner is currently an affiliated researcher in the Department of Social Anth ropology at the University of Cambridge and a postdoctoral researcher on th e Desert Disorders project at Northumbria University. Her research broadly explores how forms of popular art and practices of voicing are entangled in processes of sociopolitical transformation, especially in the wake of viol ence. For the last decade, she has worked in Somaliland, where her she has studied the social and political lives of love songs and the contemporary d ynamics of political poetic debate; she has recently begun a project explor ing the how ‘home’ is evoked both in word and sound in the poetry of diaspo ra Somali artists living in the UK. She is the author of Love Songs in Moti on: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo ok/chicago/L/bo205552325.html) (Chicago, 2023) and has published work on th e sociopolitical dynamics of Somali popular music and poetry in journals in cluding American Ethnologist (https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ doi/full/10.1111/amet.13076), Ethnomusicology (https://scholarlypublishingc ollective.org/uip/etm/article-abstract/65/2/259/283918/Out-of-Time-and-Out- of-Tune-Reflections-of-an-Oud?redirectedFrom=fulltext), and Nordic Journal of African Studies (https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/1222/632). \n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Seminaire Woolner 2024Avec Christina Woolner*

(A Reflection in Honour of Khadra Daahir Ciige, 19 57-2022)

In this seminar, we will travel deep into the musical world of Somali love(-suffering) via the storied life, love and songs of Hargeysa -born singer Khadra Daahir Ciige. Fondly known as hooyada jacaylka (‘the mother of love’), Khadra is especially beloved for her stirring perf ormances of calaacal (a genre of love-lament) and a voice that lis teners say can ‘make you feel what she feels’. While Khadra’s popularity re sts squarely on an ability to convey deeply felt love experiences in her vo ice, in this seminar I explore how songs, singers and voices become increas ingly ‘sticky, or saturated with affect’ (as Sahra Ahmed puts it) as they m ove across both space and generation and are envocalized by an eve r-expanding number of actors. I specifically consider how love songs’ aesth etic form and artists’ accessibility to their fans precipitates a particula rly intimate form of talk that plays a critical role in constantly (re)making the voice of a singer and her public intimate. Weaving together stories that Khadra’s fans tell, stories that Khadra herself told, the tex ts (and sounds) of her songs, and my own reflections on encountering Khadra , I ultimately aim to demonstrate how the ongoing making of celebrity voice works to mediate intimacy and contributes to the snowballing ‘stickiness’ of love songs in motion.

* Christina Woolner is curr ently an affiliated researcher in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a postdoctoral researcher on the Desert Disorders project at Northumbria University. Her research broadly exp lores how forms of popular art and practices of voicing are entangled in pr ocesses of sociopolitical transformation, especially in the wake of violenc e. For the last decade, she has worked in Somaliland, where her she has stu died the social and political lives of love songs and the contemporary dyna mics of political poetic debate; she has recently begun a project exploring the how ‘home’ is evoked both in word and sound in the poetry of diaspora Somali artists living in the UK. She is the author of Love Songs in Motion: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland (Chicago, 2023) and has pu blished work on the sociopolitical dynamics of Somali popular music and poe try in journals including American Ethnologist, Ethnomusicology, and Nordic Journal of African Studies.

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