October 20 to 22, 2021
This three-day event includes performances, panels, and public talks by artists and researchers from across disciplines and geographic locations. All events are free.
Accessibility notes: Panels + events with Live Captioning and/or ASL interpretation are noted as such in their individual event descriptions.
Research-Creation in Urgent times is co-hosted by Shifting Praxis in Research/Research-Creation (SPAR2C), the Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLaboratory (CoLAB), Sound Studies Institute, and Just Powers.
This event is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. (SSHRC), the Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Alberta.
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SCHEDULE — all times MST
Wednesday, October 20
7:00–8:00 pm — Opening event hosted by the Sound Studies Institute
Becoming a Hadrosaur: Musical Instruments as a Window into Natural History
with Courtney Brown
Streaming live via soundstudies.ca/livestream
Thursday, October 21
9:30 am — Research-Creation and Social/Ecological Justice
A panel investigating the role of research-creation for social and ecological justice research within university spaces.
Moderator: Natalie Loveless
Panelists: Krista Lynes, Arseli Dokumaci, Danielle Peers, and Zoe Todd
read more | live captioning + ASL interpretation available
12:00 pm — Grad Student Pecha Kucha
This panel is a chance for grad students to explore and pitch their research-creation work.
Moderator: Banafsheh Mohammadi
Presenters: Rachel Dunleavy, Tanya Klimp, Dina Bork, Zahra Tootonsab, and Alison Humphrey
read more | closed captioning available
2:00 pm — Research-Creation & Crisis
This panel will explore the role of research-creation as a methodological and dissemination tool in times of pressing global crises.
Moderator: Sean Caulfield
Panelists: Christina Battle, Jennifer Wilet, Jeff Thomas, and Chelsey Campbell
read more | live captioning + ASL interpretation available
Friday, October 22
10:00 am — Artistic Research in the Public Space
This panel brings together performance-based artistic researchers and scholars to discuss their work, and the works of others, in the public sphere(s).
Moderator: Beau Coleman
Panelists: Bruce Barton, Selena Couture, Carron Little, and Lin Snelling
read more | closed captioning + ASL interpretation available
12:00 pm — Research-Creation & Design Studies
A panel discussing the way that the pandemic has affected research-creation practices in design.
Moderator: Gillian Harvey
Panelists: Dr. Milena Radzikowska, Dr. Jennifer Roberts-Smith, and Dr. Stan Rueker
read more | closed captioning + ASL interpretation available
2:00 pm — Research-Creation, Sound Studies, & Music Pedagogy
In partial response to Dylan Robinson’s recent open letter to music educators, this panel will discuss the role of music pedagogy in Research-Creation practices, both inside and outside of academia.
Moderator: Scott Smallwood
Panelists: Jessie Beier, Emily Doolittle, Catlin W. Kuzyk, and Shima Robinson
read more | closed captioning + ASL interpretation available
5:00 pm — Performances for Urgent Times
— in partnership with Out of Site Chicago (OoS)
Hosted and curated by: Beau Coleman
Featuring performances by: lo bil, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Carron Little, Nicola Fornoni, and Dimple B Shah
Streaming live via Sound Studies Institute YouTube
