
All sessions take place in the Music Building, unless otherwise stated.
Thursday, September 25
8:30–9:00 Registration
9:00–10:50 Session 1 / STORY Abstracts + Bios
Instrumental Hall (Room 210)
- Douglas Banner | The Layers of Narrative: Using Narrative in Developing Capacity for Positive Change
- Richard Bergen | On Allegory and "Already Having Done the Research"
- Loranne Brown | Unmasked: Persona-Driven Inquiry and the Novelist as Researcher
10:50–11:10 Break
11:10–12:15 William Catling / KEYNOTE Abstracts + Bios
Instrumental Hall (Room 210)
- Art/Re___Search
12:15–1:15 Lunch (Included for all conference registrants)
1:15–2:25 Session 2 / EMBODIMENT Abstracts + Bios
Instrumental Hall (Room 210)
- Erica Grimm | Re/Search Praxis in the Academy: Enacted/Experienced/Embodied (Re/Searching the Soul)
- Emily Newman | Flesh as Research: The Body in Lucian Freud and Jenny Saville
2:25–2:45 Break
2:45–4:30 Session 3 / SOCIAL CHANGE Abstracts + Bios
Instrumental Hall (Room 210)
- Skye Burn | Giving Form to the Intangible: An Essential Skillset for Artists and Leaders
- Helen Nikolas | Using a Mixed Methods Approach in Arts and Health Initiatives - A Model for Participatory Arts in a Community Health Service
- Kathy Hettinga | Artists Research Hydraulic Fracturing: 4 2 3 CRY, Fracking in Northern Colorado
6:30-9:00 Night Verge / POETRY-MUSIC-DANCE-FILM Abstracts + Bios
Block Hall, Neufeld Science Centre
- Carl Tracie | "Shaping a World Already Made:" Landscape and Poetry on the Canadian Prairies
- Farrah O'Shea | Re-envisioning Performance Boundaries: Poetry and the Experiential
- Yves Candau | Embodied Knowledge in Dance Improvisation - Transformation through Practice
- Ned Vankevich | Sculpting Scenarios: A Personal Journey of Creative Research in the Production of a Feature Film
Friday, September 26
9:00–10:50 Session 3 / METHODOLOGIES Abstracts + Bios
Classroom 201
- Natalie S. Loveless | Research-Creation, Practice-Led Methodologies, and Interdisciplinary Discourse
- Eldad Tsabary + Jamie Woollard | Whatever Works: Research/Creation in the Context of Concordia Laptop Orchestra
- Jeff R. Warren | Composition as Research: IRCAM and Spectralism
10:50–11:10 Break
11:10–12:15 Lynn Fels / KEYNOTE Abstracts + Bios
Instrumental Hall (Room 210)
- Performing Research: A Child's Tug on your Sleeve
12:15–1:10 Lunch (Included for all conference registrants)
1:10–2:25 Session 4 / PARALLEL CREATIVE PROCESS Abstracts + Bios Instrumental Hall (Room 210)
- Rachel Tracie + Tim Scott | Inspiration and Intersection: Parallel Creative Process with Shared Vision
2:25–2:45 Break
2:45–4:30 Session 5 / FILM Abstracts + Bios
Instrumental Hall (Room 210)
- Chris Morrissey | Somewhere Over the Postmodern Rainbow: Exploratory Cinematic Research and the Polysemy of Scriptural Narratives
- John MacInnis | The Arts of War: Reconsidering Conflict Through Interdisciplinary Artistic Collaboration
- Topher Booth | Nationalism in Music Research: Archetypes in Cinema Studies