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 美女做爱 Arts Centre.听

Fall 2026 Schedule

September 10
Schroeder Series
Room 406
Peter Hinton Silverlake: An Opera in Exile by Georg Kaiser and Kurt Weill
September 17
Research Round Table All members of FSPA community are invited to give very brief outline of a research project in process.
September 24 MA Musicology Students听
Thesis Prospectus Presentations
October 1 Jennifer Bain TBA
October 8 Steven Baur TBA
October 15
Schroeder Series
Room 406
Kate Galloway
October 22 Dilshan Weerasinghe Report from PhD Land
October 29 Cameron Bennett On Collaborative Writing
November 5 David Nicol When Research Isn't Digital and Online
November 12
Study Break - No presentation No presentation
November 19 Graduate Student Showcase MA Musicology students present work in progress
November 26
Schroeder Series
Room 406
Adeline Mueller From Sociability to Solidarity: Maria Theresia Paradis as Piano Teacher and Advocate for Blind Musicians, 1809-1824

Winter 2026 Schedule

January 15 Jennifer Bain Why We Need to Visit Archives and Libraries in the Age of Digital Musicology
January 22
Nathan Beeler Stepping Toward a Culture: The Music of Mi'kma'ki in Settler Classrooms and Ensemble Rehearsals
January 29 Matthias McIntyre with Rachel Fenlon Sing Nature Alive: A 21st-Century Song Cycle for Soprano, Piano, Live Electronics, and Video
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 Seth Walker On Cherubino's 'Voi che sapete' from Mozart's听Marriage of Figaro
March 5 Elizabeth Rouget From Op茅ra-Comique to Pantomime Ballet: French Music Theatre Traditions in 18th-Century North America
March 12 Claire Gray The Hollywood Soundtrack and the Qu茅b茅cois Coming-of-Age Film
March 19 David Nicol A Shoemaker a Gentleman听(1618): Rediscovering the Popularity of a Long-Forgotten Play
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听Qililiil, a Work for Orchestra
April 9 No presentation No presentation听