Tango in the Humanities: Examining a Multidimensional Art Form Across Disciplinary and Geographic Boundaries

FAIN: RZ-292797-23

Emory University (Atlanta, GA 30322-1018)
Kristin Wendland (Project Director: November 2022 to present)

A three-day conference at Emory University exploring how historical, political, and cultural norms have shaped tango as a transnational art form in the 20th and 21st centuries. (12 months)

This convening project will organize and host an interdisciplinary conference of international scholars and scholar-artists on tango. The project is centered on broadening the scholarly discourse on tango, its history, its influence on culture and society, and its application by uniting twenty-three scholars from around the world and of a variety of humanistic disciplines, including race and gender studies, political history, musicology, anthropology, ethnomusicology, dance history, and performance. The primary product of this project is a three-day conference at Emory University in Atlanta, GA in November 2024. A subsequent product will be a digital project consisting of building a website through the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship of the workshopped and edited conference papers and presentations in spring 2025. With these two outcomes, we expect to provide a model of how an art form like the tango is studied as a humanities concept and reinvigorates the human experience.