Dance Studies Graduate Symposium - April 28th & 29th, 2023 York University, Toronto, Canada

To register for the Symposium, please complete the required fields below the flyer and indicate which events you plan to attend. All events are virtual and free of charge.

*Please note that you can also use this form to register for the Selma Odom Lectures on Thursday, April 27th from 2:00pm-4:00pm (EST) and for the Somatics Working Group on Sunday, April 30th from 10am to noon (EST).

All event times are in Eastern Standard Time.

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Please select the events you wish to attend. All sessions include a Q&A with the audience:

Please select the events you wish to attend. All sessions include a Q&A with the audience: 2023 Selma Odom Lectures - "Validating Acts of Dancing and Scholarship." Guest Speakers: Paromita Kar, Jonathan Osborn and Priya Thomas (Thursday April 27th from 2:00pm-4:00pm) Dance Studies Graduate Symposium - Session 1: "The Dangers of Arrivant Choreographies: Settler Sentiments in Border Dances.” Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz, Department of Performing and Media Arts, Cornell University (Friday April 28th from 10am-noon) Dance Studies Graduate Symposium - Session 2: "Graduate Student Roundtable on Embodiment." Morgan Anderson, Liza Constantino, Kelly Lynch, Irfana Majumdar (Friday April 28th from 12:30pm-2:00pm) Dance Studies Graduate Symposium - Session 3: "Scriptive Things and Aesthetic Displacements in Sankofa Danzafro’s La Mentira Complaciente.” Melissa Blanco-Borelli, Theatre and Performance Studies, Northwestern University (Friday April 28th from 2:30pm-4:00pm) Dance Studies Graduate Symposium - Session 4: ""Dancing for Joy: Feminist perspectives, Africanist aesthetics and soulful embodiment" Michéle Moss, Department of Dance, University of Calgary (Saturday April 29th from 10:30am-12:00pm) Dance Studies Graduate Symposium - Session 5: "“’Oh I Think Dey Like Me’: The emergence of southern Black hip hop culture, through a dirty south feminist lens” Adeerya Johnson, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, The University of British Columbia (Saturday April 29th from 12:30pm-2:00pm) Somatics Working Group - Special Guest: Linda Rabin (Sunday April 30th from 10:00am-12:00pm)