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 408 of the 色妹妹直播 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 | 听 |
| 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 | Spreadsheets, Spreadsheets, Spreadsheets | |
| October 8 | Steven Baur | Reconsidering Race and Classical Music in the United States: the Troubling Case of Louis Moreau Gottschalk | |
| October 15 Schroeder Series Room 406 |
Kate Galloway | Star Power, Paw Power: How Animals Shape Celebrity in Platform-Era Pop | |
| 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 | |
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Winter 2026 Schedule
| January 15 | Jennifer Bain | Why We Need to Visit Archives and Libraries in the Age of Digital Musicology | 听 |
| 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 |