• You're doing what?! At your age?! Intergenerational, community-based theatre to address social stigma of sexuality across the life course 

  Tidey, Leah (2020-05-06)

  Social stigma about sexuality across the life course is pervasive and deeply rooted in “Anglophone West” and patriarchal society that strives to police the sexuality of youth and older adults in diverse yet interconnected ...
• A re-consideration of participation and ethics in applied theatre projects with internally displaced and internationally displaced persons in Africa and beyond 

  Afolabi, Taiwo (2020-04-27)

  This research started as a quest to understand better the ethics of doing Theatre for Development/Applied Theatre with under-served, marginalized and vulnerable populations especially in post-conflict zones in the Global ...
• The perfect storm of seduction: Investigating tactical femininity in Bizet's Carmen 

  Kazdan, Alanna (2020-02-03)

  Premiered in France in 1875, Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen (with libretto by Henri Meilhax and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella by Prosper Mérimée) provided audiences with a main character who is not only aware of her ...
• Contemporary independent Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) in Córdoba, Argentina 2001-2016: documenting a community of practice 

  Bessey, Kate (2019-12-19)

  My premise in this dissertation is that the tradition of independent theatre for young audiences created in Córdoba, Argentina is a worthy community of practice for Applied Theatre study. To provide the much needed ...
• The Wildflowers Around Victoria Painted on Silk 

  Duer, Elizabeth Yeend; Butler-Palmer, Carolyn (ed) (2019-11-24)

  Elizabeth Yeend Duer (1889–1951) was born in Nagasaki, Japan. Her father was an Englishman, Yeend Duer (1846–1921) and her mother a Japanese woman, Yasu Tsunekawa (née Zama, 1859–1936). Elizabeth grew up knowing much about ...
• Undergraduate lighting design curriculum and pedagogy in Canada 

  Carolan, Claire (2019-10-10)

  The purpose of this research is to review the past and present pedagogy and curricula of theatre lighting design in Canada; the factors, values, ideas and theories that inform it; and to recommend an updated pedagogy and ...
• A promise kept: the mystical reach through loss 

  Collins, Jody (2019-10-04)

  The meaning of loss is love. I know this through attention to experience. Whether loss or love is experienced in abundance or in absence, the meaning is mystical with an opening of body, mind, heart and soul to spirit. And ...
• The Toronto New Wave, post-anarchist cinema theory, and the progressive apocalypse 

  Christopher, David (2019-09-06)

  A group of Canadian films emerged in the 1980s and 1990s that has come to be known as the “Toronto New Wave” (TNW). Most scholarship regarding this “wave” considers the films usually identified with it not as an ideologically ...
• A dialogue between friends and foes: transcultural interactions in Ilkhanid capital cities (1256-1335 AD) 

  Hatef Naiemi, Atri (2019-09-03)

  The period following the Mongol conquest of vast areas of Eurasia in the thirteenth century, the so-called Pax Mongolica, witnessed the emergence of a new visual language in Persian art and architecture. Various Islamic ...
• Music expert-novice differences in speech perception 

  Vassallo, Juan Sebastian (2019-08-22)

  It has been demonstrated that early, formal and extensive musical training induces changes both at the structural and functional levels in the brain. Previous evidence suggests that musicians are particularly skilled in ...
• Reflections of a past era: the photography collection of Ernest William Albert Crocker l 908-1946 

  Peel, Ellen Louise (2019-06-26)

  There are many archival photography collections that are forgotten or ignored because of their lack of accompanying written documentation. Despite this, these collections have tremendous value which can be discovered ...
• "Style is national": defining Englishness in the music of the second generation of the English Musical Renaissance 

  Kempenaar, Christina (2019-05-24)

  Members of the second generation of the English Musical Renaissance have long been associated with a break from the Teutonic influence of their predecessors to create a musical idiom that is quintessentially English. ...
• The use of logic and rhetoric in Handel’s selection and adaptation of source material 

  Szeker-Madden, Maria Anne Lisa (2018-11-05)

  The issues surrounding Handel's borrowing practices have been the subject of much debate over the last three centuries. Unfortunately, the field is rife with contradictions, speculation, and theories that have only a limited ...
• Haydn's last heroine: Hanne, The Seasons, and Sentimental Opera 

  Roussin, Rena Marie (2018-08-31)

  Joseph Haydn’s final oratorio, The Seasons (1801), has consistently been neglected in performance and scholarship, particularly when compared to its earlier, more successful counterpart, The Creation (1798). A number of ...
• Beethoven’s Op. 28 piano sonata: the pastoral and the enlightenment 

  Anderson, Dustin (2018-08-29)

  This thesis examines Beethoven’s Op. 28 Pastoral Sonata as a musical work that is dominated by the pastoral topic, and, through its use of this topic, refers to certain ideals of the Enlightenment. The first chapter ...
• The Miqat of al-Juhfa: a historical and archaeological study 

  Alsubaie, Mohammad (2018-08-15)

  The Mīqāt of al-Juhfa is located in the west of Saudi Arabia about 187 km northwest of the Holy City of Mecca. Al-Juhfa is one of the five fixed places called Mawāqīt, or entry stations to the pilgrimage (Hajj). These ...
• The logistics and finances of touring North America, 1900-1916 

  Vickery, Anthony John Louie (2018-08-07)

  In the month of December, 1904, 420 theatre companies were “on the road” in North America. This volume of touring was made possible only by the centralisation of the commercial theatre business, a feat of organisation ...
• The piano music of Jean Coulthard 

  Colton, Glenn David (2018-08-01)

  “The Piano Music of Jean Coultthard” provides a musicological assessment of keyboard literature by one of the leading composers in the history of Canadian music. Coulthard's piano works are discussed from aesthetic, ...
• Talking with Antigone 

  Schraefel, Monica M. C. (2018-07-25)

  This project considers the role of conversation in writing by women, specifically, the role of conversational spaces for women’s construction of self within the symbolic. It does this through a consideration of narrative ...
• An investigation of periodicity in music, with reference to three twentieth-century compositions: Bartok's Music for trings, percussion & celesta, Lutoslawski's Concerto for orchestra, Ligeti's Chamber concerto 

  Mountain, Rosemary (2018-07-10)

  An investigation into the nature and functions of periodicity is presented through analysis and discussion. Periodicity is established by the repetition of any musical event at regular intervals in time. The three works ...

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