Dark Laboratory: A Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe with Courtney Bryan and Ryan Clarke

Dark Laboratory: A Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe

with Courtney Bryan and Ryan Clarke

Friday, April 4, 2025 6:30pm

Location: The Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel at Tulane University

Cost: Free

The Black American Music program of the Newcomb Department of Music will host a discussion with Tao Leigh Goffe on her new book, “Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis.” She will be in conversation with Newcomb Department of Music Associate Professor Courtney Bryan, and musicologist and tonal geologist, Ryan Clarke (Newcomb Department of Music, MA '24)

Goffe is a London-born, Black British award-winning writer, theorist, and interdisciplinary artist who grew up between the UK and New York. She is currently an associate professor at Hunter College and founder and executive director of Dark Laboratory, a humanities lab centered on race, technology, and climate. Her research explores Black diasporic intellectual histories, and political and ecological life. Goffe studied English literature at Princeton University before pursuing a PhD at Yale University.

The event is open to the public