Fountain School of Performing Arts

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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 Dalhousie Arts Centre. 

Winter 2025 Schedule

January 9 Jacob Caines Reclaiming the Slur: Finding Humour and Community in Dangerous Music  
January 16
 Sharon Vogel Inverting Inversion: Masque and Antimasque, Court and Coven in Thomas Middleton’s The Witch
January 23 Shannon Brownlee Sound and image in Martine Chartrand’s Paint-on-glass Animation
January 30 Dawn Brandes Puppet Ecology: Playing with Plastic
February 6 Ben Louwersheimer Ysaÿe The Storyteller: Examinations of Narrative Embodiment
February 13 No presentation No Presentation
February 20 Winter Study Break No Presentation
February 27 No presentation No Presentation
March 6 Angela Chu Graduate Student Work-in-Progress
March 13 Matthew Walker Devised Theatre Tools for Actor Training
March 20 James Thomas Espaces Imaginaires: Adaptive Composition Strategies in Nocturne Op 62 no. 1
March 27

Cameron Bennett

Seth Walker

“These Old Bones”: Dolly Parton’s Compositional Voice(s)

TBA
April 3 Io Maeda Graduate Student Work-in-Progress  

Fall 2024 Schedule

September 19
11:30-1:30
Sheila K. Piercey Studio
 Borys Kadicky Harpsichord Masterclass  
September 26
 Estelle Joubert Mozart in Colonial South Africa
October 3 Steven Baur The Art of the Ride: Cymbals, Timbre, and Meaning in Drum Kit Performance Practice
October 10 Emma Soldaat Memory as Formal Function and Narrative Design in the Symphonies of Gustav Mahler
October 17 Jennifer Bain Sustaining Digital Musicology
October 24
Schroeder Lecture
Joseph Strug Concert Hall		 Sarah Eyerly Sounding New Histories of the Atlantic World: Mohican Music Across Three Centuries
October 31 Claire Gray “No Change”: Ghosts in The Contemporary British Social Realist Film
November 7
Schroeder Lecture
Joseph Strug Concert Hall		 Mark Campbell An Archival State of Mind: Hip-Hop's Polyphonies of Preservation
November 14 Fall Study Break No Presentation
November 21 Nicole Jordan Musical Identity: Musical labels, stereotypes, and behaviour, an exploration of social identities
November 28 Megan Johnson

Cripping Sound Art: How Disabled Artists are Revolutionizing Aural Aesthetics