Performing Arts Research Forum
The Research Forum is an informal setting where our faculty, graduate students, cross-appointed faculty and visiting scholars present research in progress. Unless otherwise indicated, sessions take place on selected Thursdays at noon in Room 409 of the Ä¢¹½AV Arts Centre.Ìý
Fall 2025 Schedule
September 25 Schroeder Lecture |
Jacqueline Warwick | ‘Go, Boy, Go!’: Child Pianist Frank ‘Sugar Chile’ Robinson and the Commodification of Black Boyhood | Ìý |
October 16 |
Steven Baur | Clops, Swats, Woodblocks, and Washboards: Percussive Accompaniments on Early Commercial Recordings | |
October 23 Schroeder Lecture |
Marcia Ostashewski Graham Marshall Leim Jo |
Building Sound Communities in Unama'ki: Fostering EDIA, Reconciliation and Decolonization through Community-Engaged Research-Creation | |
October 30 | Cameron Bennett Jacqueline WarwickÌý |
Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives: Dolly Parton’s Singing and Storytelling Across Genre | |
November 6 | Dilshan Weerasinghe | TBA | |
November 13 | Fall Study Break | No Presentation | |
November 20 | Nathan Beeler | Stepping Towards Culture: Mi’kmaq Music in Settler Classes and Rehearsals | |
November 27 Schroeder Lecture |
Adeline Mueller | From Sociability to Solidarity: Maria Theresia Paradis as Piano Teacher and Advocate for Blind Musicians, 1809-1824 | |
December 4 | Jure Gantar | TBA | |
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Winter 2026 Schedule-in-Progress
January 15 | Jennifer Bain | Why We Need to Visit Archives and Libraries in the Age of Digital Musicology | Ìý |
January 22 |
Roberta Barker | Better to Die: Love Consumptions, Masculinity, and Virtue in Early Modern Drama | |
January 29 | TBA | TBA | |
February 5 | Jacob Caines | Speculating on Queer Classical Music: Wishful Thinking, Reality, and Imagined Futures | |
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