Join us for a special talk by Josh Kun, “Listening to Lampedusa: Music, Migration, and the Mediterranean.” Josh Kun is a cultural historian, author, curator, and MacArthur Fellow. He has been the recipient of a Berlin Prize and an American Book Award and is a 2025 Grammy Nominee. His books include Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America; Songs in the Key of Los Angeles; Double Vision: The Photography of George Rodriguez, and several others. As a curator his projects and exhibitions have appeared with The Los Angeles Public Library, LACMA, The Getty, California African American Museum, The Grammy Museum, and more. As an artist, his work has appeared with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Prospect New Orleans, and Steve Turner Gallery. His next book, Beats Across Borders: A Migrant Songbook, is forthcoming from MCD Books/FSG. He is Vice Provost for the Arts at USC and Professor and Chair in Cross-Cultural Communication at the USC Annenberg School. This event is co-sponsored by Yale’s Black Sound and the Archive Working Group and Yale Public Humanities.