BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.2//
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:20241103T020000
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:20250309T020000
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:calendar.2068.events_uoft_date.0@www.eas.utoronto.ca
CREATED:20250203T203501Z
DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, February 28, 2025 1:00 pm to 2:30
  pm \n Virtual \n\nSpeakers \nDr. Diao, Ying, Independent Scholar \n\nDe
 scription: \nThe event is rescheduled to February 28, 1:00 – 2:30 PM.Regi
 ster here: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/kAK3uSUDQ-yj0xcMbJVhD
 w#/registrationThis talk explores how voice, faith, and hearing intersec
 t with sound recording technologies in the religious practices of the Lisu
  Gospel community on the China-Myanmar border. Using the concept of aurali
 ty, defined as “the shared hearing of mediated sound,” Diao examines how
  music production, circulation, and consumption create distinct sonic an
 d social spaces for the marginalized Lisu hanleixsu (the faithful) as they
  navigate the rapidly changing religious and cultural landscape of China’s
  ethnic borderland.This talk will focus on the performative dimensions of 
 Lisu aurality through an analysis of two emerging song genres: daibbit son
 g signing and the Lisu Peasant Choir. Daibbit, which involves choreograph
 ed body sign language performed to prerecorded Lisu-language gospel songs\
 , has become a deeply embedded part of the Lisu Christian experience. In c
 ontrast, the Lisu Peasant Choir, created in 1996, transforms their long
 -standing participatory hymn-singing tradition into a presentational perfo
 rmance, crafting a “model minority” voice onstage for economic and politi
 cal ends. Diao will discuss how these two distinct genres reflect the poli
 tical and cultural implications of an auditory regime that defines what co
 unts as a proper form of ethnic expression, while also revealing the live
 d reality of Christian striving on the ground in a constrained religious e
 nvironment.About the speaker:Dr. Diao, Ying is an ethnomusicologist and c
 ultural anthropologist specializing in the intersection of sound, media,
  and religion, as well as in music, minorities, and transnational cultu
 ral production in the China-Southeast Asia Borderlands. She is the author 
 of Faith by Aurality in China’s Ethnic Borderland: Media, Mobility, and 
 Christianity at the Margins (University of Rochester Press, 2023). Her cu
 rrent project examines the creative practices of the Minneapolis-based Rag
 amala Dance Company, exploring how South Indian diaspora artists navigate
  the U.S. performing arts industry to make their arts form accessible to c
 ontemporary audiences, while challenging stereotypes about tradition, cr
 eativity, and community. \n\nContact Information: \n Yanfei Li, Assistan
 t Professor, Teaching Stream, University of Toronto taryn.li@utoronto.ca
  \n\nSponsors \nDepartment of East Asian Studies \n\nCategories \n Speaker
  Series \n\nAudiences \n FacultyGraduate StudentsUndergraduate Students
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T143000
LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T163318Z
SUMMARY:Indigenous Language Speaker Series: Ways of Faith: Aurality and Voi
 cing in Lisu Christianity in China’s Ethnic Borderland
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/events/indigenous-language-speaker
 -series-ways-faith-aurality-and-voicing-lisu-christianity-china%E2%80%99s
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR