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.听
Fall 2025 Schedule
| September 25 Schroeder Lecture |
Jacqueline Warwick | 鈥楪o, Boy, Go!鈥�: Child Pianist Frank 鈥楽ugar Chile鈥� Robinson and the Commodification of Black Boyhood | 听 |
| 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听 |
Women鈥檚 Voices, Women鈥檚 Lives: Dolly Parton鈥檚 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鈥檏maq 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 | 听 |
| 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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