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 2023 Schedule

September 14
Schroeder Lecture
Room 406
Philip Ewell Racialized Musical (Hi)stories
September 21
Online
Tegan Niziol Transnational Tours and (trans)National Identities: Rachmaninoff’s 'Russianness' at Home and Abroad
September 28 Jure Gantar The Anatomy of Failure  
October 5 Linda Pearse Sonic Supplications, Ritualized Response: The Austrian Habsburgs and the Ottoman Empire (1593-1606)
October 12
Lassana Diabaté A Conversation with balafon virtuoso Lassana Diabaté
October 19
Schroeder Lecture
Room 406
Maria Cizmic 'The Story of an Artist’: Performing Disability and the Music of Daniel Johnston
October 26 Barbara Swanson TBA
November 2 Gillian Turnbull TBA
November 9 Shannon Brownlee TBA
November 16 STUDY BREAK No Presentation
November 23
Schroeder Lecture
Room 406
Jennifer Bain Computational Analysis as a tool for contextualizing the music of Hildegard of Bingen
November 30 Jérôme Blais Music, Poetry, Film