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Conference presentations by TSDC research team

Catherine Graham, Chris Sinding, J. Adam Perry, Helene Vosters. “Between Performance & the Health/Social Sciences Seminar.”

Canadian Association of Theatre Research conference

University of British Columbia, June 5, 2019

Co-organized and facilitated by Catherine Graham (with Julia Gray, Bloorview Research Institute, University of Toronto), the “Between Performance & the Health/Social Sciences Seminar” invited papers that considered the various ways performance-based scholars and practitioners engage beyond our disciplinary borders with the health and social sciences. Transforming Stories, Driving Change research team presenters included Chris Sinding, J. Adam Perry, and Helene Vosters who presented the following papers:

Sinding, C. “Of billiard balls, flagpoles, and stones dropped in water: ‘Making a difference’ between performance and social science.” 

Perry, A. “Institutional ethics and performance-as-research: Toward relational accountability.”

Vosters, H. “‘In My World’: Metaphor, embodiment, and efficiencies in performance-based cross-sector collaborations.”

 

Graham, C., Sinding, C., Vosters, H. “Promising Privacy — While Performing Publically.”

Presentation to the Research Ethics Board, McMaster University, March 19, 2019

 

Graham, C. “Transforming Stories, Driving Change.”

Hamilton Arts Council annual general meeting, September 12, 2018.

 

Graham, C. “When Fiction Opens Space for the Real.”

Canadian Association of Theatre Research, Toronto, ON, May 29, 2017.

 

Sinding, C. “To Appreciate, and Also to Evaluate? Understanding the Effects of Performance Events on Public Discourse.”

Qualitative Analysis Conference, May 18, 2017.

 

Sinding, C. “Performance for public-making in social work education.”

Part of panel Illuminating the Political: Explorations of Political Art-Making for Our Times. Canadian Anthropology Studies Association annual conference, Ottawa, Ontario, May 6, 2017.

 

Sinding, C., Graham, C., Nouvet, E., Vengris, J., Skene, M. “Performing (mis)recognition: A project of arts-informed social work education.”

Canadian Association for Social Work Education Conference, Ottawa, May 30 - June 2, 2016.  

 

Graham, C. “Communities and Counterpublics in Activist Performance.”

Canadian Association of Theatre Research, University of Calgary, May 29, 2016.

 

Nouvet, E., Sinding, C., Graham, C., Vengris, J.  “Troubling stories for healthcare learners: how/what can we hear across gulfs of experience?”

A Palpable Thrill: Medical Humanities Conference, Hamilton, May 8, 2016.

 

Nouvet, E., Sinding, C., Graham, C., Vengris, J., Fudge Schormans, A., Fullwood, A., Skene, M. “Undoing norms of misrecognition: precariously housed women enacting life and power.”

Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, March 30, 2016.  

 

Graham, C. “Traces of Frames and Signals to Allies We Don’t Yet Know.”

American Association of Theatre Research, Portland, Oregon, Nov. 8, 2015

 

Sinding, C., Vengris, J., Graham, C., Nouvet, E., Kay, A., Wingard, J., Skene, M., Fudge Schormans, A. “What are you un/doing with that story? Crafting stories and images for social justice education.”

Canadian Association for Social Work Education Conference, Ottawa, June 2 - 4, 2015.  

 

Sinding, C., Graham, C., Vengris, J., Nouvet, E., Kay, A., Wingard, J., Skeene, M., Fudge Schormans, A. “What are you un/doing with that story? Crafting stories and images for social justice education.”

Canadian Association For Social Work Education Conference, January 20, 2015.