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Pop after Empire: Disco, Decolonization, and the Re-Making of Europe's Pop Music Industry

April 14, 2026

5:00 pm

A. D. White House, Guerlac Room

An abstract for the talk will be posted here as soon as it is available.

About the speaker

Kira Thurman is a highly-sought-after and award-winning historian and musicologist. A classically-trained pianist who grew up in Vienna, Austria, Thurman earned her PhD in history from the University of Rochester with a minor field in musicology from the Eastman School of Music. Her research, which has appeared in German Studies Review, the American Historical Review, Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS), Opera Quarterly, and Journal of World History, focuses on two topics that occasionally converge: the relationship between music and national identity, and Central Europe's historical and contemporary relationship with the Black diaspora.

Host

The Institute for European Studies, part of the Einaudi Center for International Studies

Additional Information

Program

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for European Studies