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. 

Fall 2025 Schedule

September 25
Schroeder Lecture		 Jacqueline Warwick ‘Go, Boy, Go!’: Child Pianist Frank ‘Sugar Chile’ Robinson and the Commodification of Black Boyhood  
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 Warwick 		 Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives: Dolly Parton’s Singing and Storytelling Across Genre
November 6 Dilshan Weerasinghe AFRO PUNK: Hip-hop, Black Counter Cultures, and the Radical Aesthetics of Black Performance
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

POSTPONED - NEW DATE TBA

Adeline Mueller

 

POSTPONED 

From Sociability to Solidarity: Maria Theresia Paradis as Piano Teacher and Advocate for Blind Musicians, 1809-1824

No Presentation
December 4 Jure Gantar Back by Popular Demand: Recurring Characters in Comedy
     

Winter 2026 Schedule-in-Progress

January 15 Jennifer Bain Why We Need to Visit Archives and Libraries in the Age of Digital Musicology  
January 22
 Roberta Barker Better to Die: Love Consumptions, Masculinity, and Virtue in Early Modern Drama
January 29 Claire Gray TBA
February 5 Jacob Caines Speculating on Queer Classical Music: Wishful Thinking, Reality, and Imagined Futures
February 12 Fran Ferrell On Improvisation in Choral Settings
February 19 Winter Study Break No Presentation
February 26 First-Year MA Students TBA
March 5 Elizabeth Rouget TBA
March 12 Jérôme Blais TBA
March 19 David Nicol TBA
March 26 Eamonn O'Keeffe Military Music and British Society during the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815
April 2 Amy Brandon Artificial Utonality: Using the Tcherepnin Enneatonic Scale in Qililiil, a Work for Orchestra
April 9 Tamara Kucheran TBA