2023-2024
Saied Asgarian (MFA Program, Theatre Studies) presented his thesis research, “Theatre as a Tool for Integration,” at the Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT) Conference, University of Toronto, February 2024.
Claudia Ondrusek (MFA Drama, Interdisciplinary Research and Creation) participated in the online Movement Vocabulary Intensive as part of thesis research on the classical singer’s preparation and performance, January–February 2024.
Jean-René Leblanc (Associate Professor, Art and Art History) presented “Using Augmented Reality to Connect to Energy Studies: An Interactive Installation” at the Society for Social Studies of Science Conference, Honolulu, November 2023.
Sarah Kenny (Associate Professor, Dance) presented “Assessing and Reporting Dancer Capacities, Risk Factors, and Injuries” at the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, Columbus, Ohio, October 2023.
Jeremy Brown (Professor, Music) completed final revisions and editing of jazz recordings of original compositions for his new album Intersections, October–November 2023.
Pil Hansen (Professor, SCPA) received support for an American Sign Language translation of a video essay for a special issue of Performance Matters relating to her research on deaf-centered dramaturgy and audience perception research.
Marie France Forcier (Associate Professor, Dance) traveled to Seoul to participate in a collaborative choreographic research initiative, “In-Between Space Lab,” November 2023.
Penny Sanborn (Master’s Program, Music Performance) travelled to Italy for a master class with and concert by Ivano Battison as part of her thesis research on classical accordion.
Isabel Martins (MFA Program, Interdisciplinary Research and Creation) attended the North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance Workshop in Atlanta in May 2023 as part of thesis research on using drama techniques to develop enrichment exercises for captive chimpanzees.
Oshadhee Satarasinghe (PhD Program, Music) attended the online Smithsonian Folkways Institute World Music Pedagogy Workshop in June 2023 as part of thesis research on integrating South Asian music into Alberta’s music curriculum.
Susan Cahill (Associate Professor, Art and Art History) moderated a panel, “Burnout and Recovery: Academic Life, Lately,” at the University Art Association of Canada Conference, Banff, October 2023.
Laurie Radford (Professor, Music) presented an invited lecture at the 46th Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition in Brandon, Manitoba, in April 2023, and met with the competition’s artistic director about a composition project in process.
Pil Hansen (Professor, SCPA) presented “Affecting Performers’ Cognitive and Perceptual Abilities: The Ethics of Learning and Unlearning in Dance Generating Systems” at the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities 2023 Conference, University of Warsaw, Poland, July 2023.
Saied Asgarian (MFA Program, Theatre Studies) developed a performance project relating to thesis research on theatre as a tool for integrating new immigrants into a host society for presentation in September 2023.
Penny Sanborn (Master’s Program, Music Performance) received support to commission a new composition for classical accordion to be performed for her graduate thesis recital.
2022-2023
- Melanie Kloetzel (Professor, Dance) collaborated with dance artist Sandra Lamouche to create Just Breathe, Okâwîmâwaskiy, an immersive journey into and out of climate anxiety that premiered in ProSeries in January 2023.
- Cassie Holmes (MFA Program, Theatre Design) participated in a Training the Eye workshop as part of her research on lighting diversity for her thesis production of Argonautika in February 2023.
- Marie France Forcier (Associate Professor, Dance) participated in a Transart Institute Micro-Residency in New York in November 2022.
- Heather Leier (Assistant Professor, Art and Art History) participated in the curated Sustain portfolio exchange at the Mid America Print Council Conference in Kent, Ohio in October 2022.
- Michèle Moss (Associate Professor, Dance) participated in the Decolonizing Canadian Dance Symposium, a pre-conference gathering held at Simon Fraser University in conjunction the Dance Studies Association Conference in Vancouver in October 2022.
- Dona Schwartz (Professor, Art and Art History) participated in portfolio review sessions for two new photographic series at Fotofest Biennial and Meeting Place in Houston, Texas in September 2022.
- Randi Edmundson (MFA Program, Directing) served as assistant director for Theatre Under the Trees in Kamloops in conjunction with her directing research for her thesis production of Argonautika in February 2023.
- Nathan Pronyshyn (MFA Program, Theatre Studies) presented his thesis research on theatre for young audiences in Canada at the International Federation for Theatre Research World Congress in Reykjavik, Iceland, in June 2022.
- Seyedeh Melika Forouzan Pour (MFA Program, Art and Art History) participated in the Under the Tent project and symposium sponsored by Toronto Metropolitan University in June-July 2022, contributing an installation relating to her thesis research on place attachment and sense of belonging.
- Anuradha Gobin (Associate Professor, Art and Art History) presented a paper, “Sorrows for Sweetness: Tactility, Aurality and the Afterlife of Material Culture from Dutch Brazil,” at the Early Modern Sensory Experiences Conference at the University of Oxford in June 2022.
- Heather Leier (Assistant Professor, Art and Art History) commissioned photographic documentation for the catalogue for Transitional Impressions: Visualizing Environmental Change, a creative research project with an exhibition and workshop held at the University of Calgary in June 2022.
- Christine Brubaker (Associate Professor, Drama) and Clem Martini (Professor, Drama) participated in a workshop of Martini’s play The Extinction Therapist in June 2022.
2021-2022
- Peter Balkwill (Assistant Professor, Drama) participated in the Festival/Conference Casteliers in Montreal in March 2022.
- Jeremy Brown (Professor, Music) edited recordings of new Canadian works for saxophone prior to their release in 2022.
- Marie France Forcier (Associate Professor, Dance) worked with a choreographer to remount her performance Verisimilitude in Crux Arising at the DJD Dance Centre in February 2022.
- Julian lafelice (Master’s Program, Music) worked with an instrumentalist to test and provide feedback on a package of materials relating to their thesis research on the microtonal system as art.
- Jeremy Brown (Professor, Music) recorded new Canadian music for saxophone in January 2022.
- Jovanni Sy (MFA Program, Directing) workshopped his adaptation The Tao of the World with a dramaturg and actors in advance of his thesis production in February 2022.
2020-2021
- Marie France Forcier (Associate Professor, Dance) commissioned music for her short dance film The Speech for ReLocate’s online event Experiment #5 in January 2021.
- Edmond Agopian (Professor, Music) organized an online performance of music by Black composers in Fall 2020.
- Jeremy Brown (Professor, Music) recorded new Canadian saxophone music commissioned for him to perform.
- Melanie Kloetzel (Professor, Dance) prepared photographic illustrations for her forthcoming book Covert: A Handbook.
- Laura Hynes (Associate Professor, Music) commissioned cover art for her forthcoming publication 24 Études for Voice.
- Heather Cant (MFA Program, Directing) organized an Intercultural Advisory Committee for her thesis production of Sarah Kane’s Crave.
2019-2020
- Brittany Pack (MFA Program, Directing) organized and participated in a dramaturgical workshop in November 2019 in preparation for her thesis production of Meghan Greeley’s play Jawbone in 2020.
- Claudia Chagoya (MFA Program, Art) gave a presentation relating to her thesis research and entitled “In Memorium” at the Universities Art Association of Canada Conference in Quebec City in October 2019.
- Wojciech Mochniej (Senior Instructor, Dance) travelled to Poland to rehearse a new cast of his work WeSelle for presentation by the Polish Theatre Network in Fall 2019.
- Rod Squance (Instructor, Music) created a video of his work in Raga Marimba and Tabla Performance in July-October 2019.
- Pil Hansen (Associate Professor, Drama) travelled to Toronto in November 2019 to test outcomes of Kaeja Dance’s work with elderly populations using dance to address loneliness.
- Marie France Forcier (Assistant Professor, Dance) travelled to France to workshop and present a new collaborative dance creation project, Verisimilitude II, at Les Rencontres de la Danse Aérienne festival in St. Nazare, July 2019.
- Melanie Kloetzel (Associate Professor, Dance) presented “Site Dance and the 'Generic’ Place” at the Performance Studies international Conference in Calgary in July 2019.
- Melissa Monteros (Professor, Dance) travelled to Poland in June 2019 to present “Bodies in Motion: Identity and Place” at the Flow Festival in Warsaw.
- Jeremy Brown (Professor, Music) travelled to Boston for a residency at Boston University Tanglewood Institute and a recording session with Joe Morris in June 2019.
- Edmond Agopian (Professor, Music) created a demo audio-recording of Calgary Musicscapes Band in 2019.
- Peter Balkwill (Assistant Professor, Drama) travelled to Prague to lead a workshop on “Transforming Space with Illuminated Sculpture” and give a talk on his research-creation project “Iinisikimm” at the Prague Quadrennial in June 2019.
- Adam Patrick Bell (Assistant Professor, Music) gave a presentation entitled “Street Recording Studio Practices in Mali” at the Association for Popular Music Education Conference in New York City in June 2019.
- Val Campbell (Associate Professor, Drama) led a workshop entitled “In the Eye of the Beholder” at the Body-Mind Centering Association Conference in Santa Barbara, California in August 2019.
- Laura Hynes (Assistant Professor, Music) travelled to Toronto to collaborate in developing a new iteration of “Raise Your Voice” in May 2019.
- April Viczko (Associate Professor, Drama) gave a presentation entitled “Designing conventions: Crafting an arc in the post-dramatic, narrative defiant antigone lives*” at the Mid-America Theatre Conference in Cleveland in March 2019.
- Clem Martini (Professor, Drama) gave a presentation entitled “Resisting Erasure: The Voices of Patients in the History of Psychiatry” at the Psychiatry and Psychology Health Conference in Amsterdam in May 2019.
- Bryan Faubert (MFA Program, Art) travelled to Peekskill, NY, to do an apprenticeship with sculptor Cal Lane related to his thesis research.
- Jacqueline Russell (MFA Program, Theatre Studies) presented a paper from her thesis research, entitled “Break All the Rules: Female Clowns at the fin-de-siecle,” at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference in Orlando, Florida in August 2019.
- Melike Ceylan (PhD Program, Music) participated in the U of Calgary student design team at the Prague Quadrennial and presented a paper relating to her thesis research at The Arts in Society Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, in June 2019.
- Bahar Bingol (PhD program, Music) organized and presented the “Together We Support Social Awareness Project,” a performance by the Sophia Ensemble relating to her thesis research, at the Women’s Resource Centre at the University of Calgary in April 2019.
- Brian Garbet (PhD program, Music) gave a thesis-related conference presentation entitled “Above and below: The water segment of a music composition on the Windsor Hum” at the Conference on Communication and Environment in Vancouver in June 2019.
2018-2019
- Rod Squance (Instructor, Music) gave a raga marimba and tabla performance and workshops in Toronto and Ottawa in March 2019.
- Melanie Kloetzel (Associate Professor, Dance) completed the index for her co-authored book (RE)Positioning Site Dance, forthcoming in 2019.
- Laura Hynes (Assistant Professor, Music) presented “The Social Justice Recital: Collaborating Across Borders” at the College Music Society Conference in Vancouver in October 2018.
- Heather Leier (Assistant Professor, Art) travelled to Corner Brook, Newfoundland in November 2018 to install her co-curated exhibition Women, Memory, and Psychological Scapes, give a talk, and do preliminary work on a new collaborative project exploring connectedness and trauma.
- Peter Balkwill (Assistant Professor, Drama) travelled to Indonesia to participate in the Pesta Boneka International Puppet Festival in October 2018.
- Kevin Ngo (PhD Program, Music) visited the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in Fall 2018 to do thesis-related research and present his work in a graduate seminar led by Dr. William Kinderman, who is a member of his thesis committee.
- Christine Brubaker (Assistant Professor, Drama) did script development workshops of her projects Henry G20 and The Life and Death of Ana Petrovna in Toronto in July 2018.
- Wojciech Mochniej (Senior Instructor, Dance) travelled to Poland to develop and perform his work WeSelle at the International Festival of New Dance in Gdansk and the International Festival of Dance in Bytom in Spring 2018.
- Pil Hansen (Associate Professor, Drama) presented a paper, “The Cognitive and Creative Strategies of Aging Dancers,” at the Cognitive Humanities Conference in Canterbury, UK in July 2018. She also co-presented “Approaching the Cognition of Memory in the Performing Arts through Complementary Methodologies” at the same conference.
- Adam Patrick Bell (Assistant Professor, Music) presented a paper, “‘My Way’: Integrating Popular Music Pedagogy into a Canadian Music Education Program,” at the Progressive Methods in Popular Music Education Conference in London, Ontario in June 2018.
- Susan Cahill (Assistant Professor, Art) presented a paper on “The Art and Surveillance Project” at the Surveillance Studies Network Conference in Aarhus, Denmark in June 2018.
- Laura Hynes (Assistant Professor, Music) presented “ConcerT: A Research-Creation Project on Testosterone and the Transgender Singing Voice” at the Singing Network’s International Symposium on Singing and Song II in St. John’s, Newfoundland in June 2018.
- Clem Martini (Professor, drama) presented “Consulting the Ouija: Historical Fiction and the Act of Raising the Dead” at the Canadian Writers Summit in Toronto in June 2018.
- Beth Kates (MFA Program, Drama) presented “Cyclical Creation” in the Scenography Working Group at the Canadian Association for Theatre Research Conference in Kingston, Ontario in May 2018.
2017-2018
- Melanie Kloetzel (Associate Professor, Dance) developed her choreographic work It began with watching for presentation at the Fluid Festival in Calgary in October 2017.
- Jennifer Eiserman (Associate Professor, Art) presented “Performance Art as Collaborative, Inquiry Based Learning” at the University Art Association of Canada Conference in Banff in October 2017.
- Laura Hynes (Assistant Professor, Music) co-presented “Raise Your Voice: Social Justice and the Classical Recital” at the International Congress of Voice Teachers in Stockholm in August 2017.
- Adam Patrick Bell (Assistant Professor, Music) co-presented a workshop entitled “Creating a Sonic Signature: Musical Being and Sound Identity” at IMPACT 2017: Music Experience Design for Education, Health, Interactive Media, and Social Impact, a conference held at New York University in August 2017.
- April Viczko (Associate Professor, Drama) participated in and chaired a panel on “Transforming Designers” as part of the OISTAT Costume Design Group program at World Stage Design 2017 in Taipei in August.
- Valerie Campbell (Associate Professor, Drama) participated in an annual research retreat on Embodied Practice in Victoria, BC, in July 2017.
- Colin Gibbings (MFA Program, Theatre Studies) presented “Workshopping Medieval Texts through Performance: The Wanderer on Treaty 7 Lands” at the International Federation for Theatre Research Conference in Sao Paolo in July 2017.
- Susan Cahill (Assistant Professor, Art) presented “The Visual Culture of Surveillance” at the Canadian Communication Association Conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Toronto in June 2017.
- Gerald Hushlak (Professor, Art) travelled to China for the installation and opening of an exhibition of his work at the Chentangzhuang Art and Technology Museum in Tianjin in June 2017.
- Michèle Moss (Associate Professor, Dance) developed a new choreographic work for presentation at the Moving Inspirations Dance Festival in Winnipeg in November 2017.
- Clem Martini (Professor, Drama) presented “Caring for Schizophrenia: The Crisis Faced by the Family Care Giving Model” at the Global Association of the Humanities and Social Science Research Conference in Rome in June 2017.
- Pil Hansen (Assistant Professor, SCPA) convened the Dramaturgy and Performance Working Group and contributed a paper at the Performance Studies international Conference in Hamburg in June 2017.
- Anuradha Gobin (Assistant Professor, Art) presented “Unsanctioned Acts: Landscape’s Boundaries and the Exertion of Agency in the Dutch Republic” at the Royal Historical Society Symposium at the University of Chicester, UK, in April 2017.
- Laurie Radford (Associate Professor, Music) travelled to Tel-Aviv for the rehearsal and premiere of his new work Reson II by the Meitar Ensemble and to give a guest lecture at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in April 2017.
- Jeremy Brown (Professor, Music) travelled to the University of Michigan to present a seminar on the wind band music of Henry Cowell in March 2017. He also travelled to the University of Windsor to perform in the Noiseborder New Music Festival and present a master class and public recital.
- Jean René Leblanc (Associate Professor, Art) travelled to Hawaii to install and attend his photography exhibition “Chasing the Light of Pele” at the Kahilu Theatre in Waimea.
2016-2017
- David Eagle (Professor, Music) traveled to Tokyo to attend the premiere of his new composition for quarter-tone free-bass accordion and to give a guest lecture at the Tokyo College of Music in November 2016.
- April Viczko (Associate Professor, Drama) attended the opening of the Costume Design at the Turn of the Century: 1990-2015 exhibition at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, in August 2016. She curated the Canadian submission for the exhibition and also gave a master class while in Asheville.
- Melanie Kloetzel (Associate Professor, Dance) toured her site-based performance installation Rooms to the Feats Festival of Dance and The Works Art and Design Festival in Edmonton in June-July 2016.
- Valerie Campbell (Associate Professor, Drama) presented “Moving the Poetic Body: Authentic Movement and Embodied Speaking” at the Body-Mind Centering Association Conference in Montreal in June 2016.
- Clem Martini (Professor, Drama) presented “Chronicling Crisis” at the Canadian Creative Writers’ Summit in Toronto in June 2016.
- James Parker (Professor, Art) presented “Animated Lightning in Video Games” at the Canadian Games Association Conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Calgary, in June 2016.
- Dick Averns (Instructor, Art) created the video art project Liberty Avenue...Ambivalence Boulevard for the group exhibition Us-Them-Us at the pre-conference of the Comparative International Education Society of Canada, held in advance of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences held at the University of Calgary in 2016.
- Ron Kostyniuk (Professor, Art) conducted research in France for his neo-constructivist sculpture project Monet’s Garden Series in June 2016.
- Pil Hansen (Assistant Professor, SCPA) contributed a paper to the Choreography and Corporeality Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 2016.
- Brian Garbet (PhD Program, Music Composition) presented “Cymatic Representation of a ‘Mysterious’ Noise Pollution” at the Seeing Sound Practice-Led Research Symposium at Bath Spa University, UK, in April 2016.
- Anna Mouat (Associate Professor, Dance) presented “Nineteenth-Century Social Dance Teaching Devices: Training or Torture?” at the Oxford Dance Symposium, New College, Oxford University, UK, in April 2016.
- Laura Hynes (Assistant Professor, Music) organized and performed in the concert Raise Your Voice, addressing issues of violence against women, at the University of Calgary in March 2016.
- Patrick Du Wors (Assistant Professor, Drama) presented “Canadian Perspectives on the Prague Quadrennial: Impact, Inspiration, Representation, and Future Visions” at a symposium on Transformations of the Prague Quadrennial since 1999 in Prague, Czech Republic, in March 2016.
- Jennifer Eiserman (Associate Professor, Art) presented “Building Leadership Foundations through Empathy: The Homelessness Project” at the National Art Education Association Conference in Chicago in March 2016.
2015-2016
- Jean-René Leblanc (Associate Professor, Art) was artist-in-residence at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park in December 2015, where he worked on a digital photography project and gave artist talks and workshops.
- Dawn McCaugherty (Associate Professor, Drama) co-presented “Impulse/Form: A Devised Theatre Creation Investigating the Intimate Relationship of Performance and Scenography” at the 2015 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in Prague, Czech Republic.
- Anton de Groot (MFA Program, Theatre Design) attended the 2015 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in Prague, Czech Republic, where his thesis research on Bertolt Brecht’s Man = Man was included in the Canadian Student Exhibit, which he also curated.
- Melissa Monteros (Associate Professor, Dance) and Wojciech Mochniej (Instructor, Dance) toured their performance Waiting Rooms in Heaven in Poland in April and May 2015.
- Denis Gadbois (Senior Instructor, Art) traveled to Bangkok, Thailand to conduct field research and create panoramic photographs for the Asian Culture 360 Degree project in May 2015.
- Linda Carreiro (Associate Professor, Art) traveled to New York City to install and attend the opening of her solo exhibition Inside Out of Words at the Centre for Book Arts in April 2015.
- Anna Mouat (Associate Professor, Dance) presented a paper entitled “Dandizettes and the Grecian Bend” at the Oxford Dance Symposium, New College, Oxford University, UK, in April 2015.
- Pil Hansen (Assistant Professor, SCPA) presented papers at the Cognitive Futures in the Humanities Conference at Oxford University and the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence of Simulation of Behaviour Conference, University of Kent, UK, in April 2015. She also participated in workshops with the Practice-Based Research Network in the University of Copenhagen’s School of Arts and Cultural Studies and the Dance Engaging Science Network, Bielefeld University, Germany.
- Robert Bailey (MA Program, Musicology) presented a paper entitled “Foreign Policy and Ideology: The Political Appropriation of a Swedish-German Jazz Orchestra Exchange, February 1939” at the Music Under German Occupation, 1938-1945: Complicity and Resistance Conference, University of Manchester, UK, March-April 2015. The paper was part of Bailey’s Master’s thesis, “Performing for the Nazis: Foreign Musicians in Germany, 1933-1939.”
- Chelsea Rushton (MFA Program, Art) presented part of her thesis research, “Motherland: Life/Death/Life,” at the Humanities Education and Research Association Conference in San Francisco in April 2015.
- Jean-René Leblanc (Associate Professor, Art) traveled to Halifax to install and attend the opening of his solo exhibition “Presentification of Paradise” and to give an artist’s talk at the View Point Gallery of Contemporary Photography in March 2015.
2014-2015
- Michèle Moss (Assistant Professor, Dance) choreographed a new work, Jamais Vu, Deja La, for the "Queens Calling" showcase of women choreographers presented by Dance Immersion in Toronto in conjunction with Black History Month in February 2015.
- Rebecca Flynn (MFA Program, Theatre Studies) traveled to England to do archival research for her thesis on the new woman in modern British comedy, consulting materials in the Lord Chamberlain’s Plays Collection at the British Library, the Theatre and Performance Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Special Collections at Liverpool John Moores University.
- Ilkim Tongur (PhD Program, Music Composition) traveled to Istanbul, Turkey to conduct archival and field research and record materials for her doctoral research in music composition.
- Patrick Du Wors (Assistant Professor, Drama) traveled to Toronto to work on the set and costume design for Against the Grain Theatre’s December 2014 production of Joel Ivany’s opera #Uncle John, a new adaptation of Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
- Christopher Haworth (Postdoctoral Scholar, Music) presented his refereed paper “Sound Synthesis Procedures as ‘Texts’: A New Virtuosity in Computer Music” at the American Musicological Society Conference in Milwaukee in November 2014.
- Rebecca Flynn (MFA Program, Theatre Studies) presented her paper “Suffragettes Under Cover: The Role of the Comic Female in Evelyn Glover’s Suffrage Comedy A Chat with Mrs. Chicky” in the refereed New Scholars Forum at the International Federation for Theatre Research World Congress at the University of Warwick, UK in July 2014. The paper was part of Flynn’s Master’s thesis on the new woman in modern British comedy.
- In April 2014, Brian Garbet (PhD Program, Music Composition) attended the Victoria Symphony Composers’ Workshop at the Alix Goolden Hall in Victoria, BC, where his composition Northwest Passage was read through twice by a professional orchestra and conducted by Tania Miller.