Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music), architecture and design

This group comprises research and experimental development in arts (including arts and history of arts, performing arts, music), architecture and design.
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Graduate Degree Programs in Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music), architecture and design

Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition (DMA)

The D.M.A. program is designed for composers who have already reached a high level of proficiency and artistry in their fields and who may wish to teach at the university level. This program offers an opportunity to bring creative and performance achievement to a high level while enriching...

Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestral Instrument (DMA)

The D.M.A. program is designed for performers who have already reached a high level of proficiency and artistry in their fields and who may wish to teach at the university level. This program offers an opportunity to bring creative and performance achievement to a high level while enriching...

Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano (DMA)

The DMA program is designed for performers who have already reached a high level of proficiency and artistry in their fields and who may wish to teach at the university level. This program offers an opportunity to bring creative and performance achievement to a high level while enriching individual...

Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice (DMA)

The D.M.A. program is designed for performers who have already reached a high level of proficiency and artistry in their fields and who may wish to teach at the university level. This program offers an opportunity to bring creative and performance achievement to a high level while enriching...

Doctor of Philosophy in Art History (PhD)

Students in the PhD in Art History program are encouraged to situate art in its historical context, to analyze its impact on the world around us, and to develop theoretical frameworks that contribute to critical thinking and engage with debates in the field. The program involves coursework, two...

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)

The program can accommodate interests in ethnomusicology’s wide range of geographic areas and intellectual issues. We strongly encourage performance, close interaction with related disciplines (anthropology, area studies, sociology, linguistics, etc.), as well as border crossing within music (...

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Musicology (PhD)

The M.A. and Ph.D. programs in musicology at the UBC School of Music offer students advanced training leading to professional careers in teaching and scholarly research. Graduate students enjoy a program that balances sound historical methods with critical interpretation, and forges...

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Theory (PhD)

Theories of music describe ways that listeners, composers, and performers conceive of the elements of their art. Study of theory, then, informs all aspects of musical learning at UBC. Our faculty include internationally known researchers who contribute to theories of rhythm and meter, music...

Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD)

The Ph.D. program offers students the opportunity to pursue theatre studies through coursework, comprehensive examination preparations and a doctoral dissertation project.  Students are expected to give primary attention to an area of expertise of their choice while training in the broader...

Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture (MASA)

The Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture (MASA) is a post-professional research degree offered in a two-year curriculum. Students work in independent design or research-based studies in collaboration with faculty members engaged in certain research themes. This immersive program is for those...

Master of Advanced Studies in Landscape Architecture (MASLA)

The Master of Advanced Studies in Landscape Architecture (MASLA) is a post-professional research degree offered in a two-year curriculum. Students work in independent research-based studies in collaboration with faculty members engaged in certain research themes. This immersive program is for those...

Master of Architecture (MARCH)

The Master of Architecture (MArch) graduate degree program offers an accredited three-year curriculum. This professional course of study is highly demanding with a large proportion of the curriculum being required coursework. Design studios are integrated with courses in architecture history and...

Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture (MARCLA)

The dual degree option is a four-year program to pursue the Master of Architecture and the Master of Landscape Architecture at the same time. The dual degree is certified with both the Canadian Architectural Certification Board and the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. The dual degree...

Master of Arts in Art History (Critical Curatorial Studies) (MA)

Critical and Curatorial Studies (CCST) is an emerging field of scholarship and training that looks directly at the roles and responsibilities of curators and critics as mediators between objects, institutions, experiences, individuals and groups. While this involves investigating and negotiating a...

Master of Arts in Art History (MA)

The MA in Art History is designed to instruct students in methods to research and present scholarly materials, while providing grounding in a broadly based and methodologically diverse art history. The program offers advanced study of art history in areas of Asian art, European and North American...

Master of Arts in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (MA)

The program can accommodate interests in ethnomusicology’s wide range of geographic areas and intellectual issues. We strongly encourage performance, close interaction with related disciplines (anthropology, area studies, sociology, linguistics, etc.), as well as border crossing within music (...

Master of Arts in Music, Emphasis Musicology (MA)

The M.A. and Ph.D. programs in musicology at the UBC School of Music offer students advanced training leading to professional careers in teaching and scholarly research. Graduate students enjoy a program that balances sound historical methods with critical interpretation, and forges...

Master of Arts in Music, Emphasis Theory (MA)

Theories of music describe ways that listeners, composers, and performers conceive of the elements of their art. Study of theory, then, informs all aspects of musical learning at UBC. Our faculty include internationally known researchers who contribute to theories of rhythm and meter, music...

Master of Arts in Theatre (MA)

Please note that the applications for the MFA in Design/Production, Costume stream and Lighting stream are pausing for one year and there will be no in-take into Fall 2023.  Applications for Fall 2024 will open in late September 2023. The two-year M.A. program offers students the opportunity to...

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Distance) (MFA)

Creative Writers are at the heart of our cultural industries. Poets, novelists, screenwriters, playwrights, graphic novelists, magazine writers: they entertain, inform and inspire. For more than 15 years, UBC's Creative Writing program has been educating writers through distance education in a...

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA)

Creative Writers are at the heart of our cultural industries. Poets, novelists, screenwriters, playwrights, graphic novelists, magazine writers: they entertain, inform and inspire. For more than 50 years, UBC’s Creative Writing program has been producing writers who’ve shaped Canadian and...

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Theatre (MFA)

We are Canada's oldest and most respected MFA Program in Creative Writing. Offering an unprecedented 11 genres for potential study, students work in a learner-centered, workshop-driven program which offers an exciting breadth of choices, award-winning faculty and a setting in one of the world's...

Master of Fine Arts in Film Production and Creative Writing (MFA)

Please note that the applications for the MFA in Film Production and Creative Writing are accepted on a biennial basis.  Applications for Fall 2024 will open in late September 2023. Film Production is a major component of Vancouver’s economy, as well as in cities across the globe. UBC has an over...

Master of Fine Arts in Theatre (MFA)

Please note that the applications for the MFA in Design/Production, Costume stream and Lighting stream are pausing for one year and there will be no in-take into Fall 2024.  Applications for Fall 2025 will open in late September 2024. M.F.A. in Theatre in Design/Production The Master of Fine Arts...

Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art (MFA)

The MFA program is dedicated to helping students understand both the making and theorizing of art against the background of the diverse intellectual environment of a major university, and within the context of local and international art communities. The MFA degree is also the standard qualifying...

Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA)

The Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) graduate degree program offers an accredited three-year curriculum. This professional course of study is highly demanding with a large proportion of the curriculum being required coursework. Design studios are integrated with courses in landscape history...

Master of Museum Education (MMEd)

The term museum encompasses a broad range of organisations with a focus on learning in settings outside the traditional classroom.  Museums include cultural centres, science centres, historic sites, parks, planetaria, art museums and art galleries.  Contemporary museum education establishes museums...

Master of Music in Composition (MMUS)

The Master of Music (M.Mus.) degree in composition is offered to students who have achieved necessary levels of attainment and productivity at the undergraduate level, and who give reasonable promise of further significant accomplishment. This degree is often a final academic step for the musician...

Master of Music in Conducting (Emphasis Choral Conducting) (MMUS)

The UBC School of Music offers excellent training for graduate assistant conductors with ample podium time in front of outstanding ensembles. Degrees are offered with emphases in Choral, Orchestral, or Wind conducting. The conducting program features private conducting study and significant podium...

Master of Music in Conducting (Emphasis Orchestral Conducting) (MMUS)

The orchestral conducting program features private conducting study and significant podium time. Teaching Assistantships in conducting and ensembles provide vital experiential learning opportunities throughout the degree. Collaboration among conducting faculty and students in all emphases makes it...

Master of Music in Conducting (Emphasis Wind Conducting) (MMUS)

The M.Mus. with emphasis in wind conducting gives the aspiring professional wind conductor an unequaled opportunity to receive consistent, ample podium time with the UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Concert Winds. Students work extensively one-on-one with conducting professors and fulfill leadership...

Master of Music in Guitar (MMUS)

The Master of Music (M.Mus.) degree in performance is offered to students who have achieved necessary levels of attainment and productivity at the undergraduate level, and who give reasonable promise of further significant accomplishment. This degree is often a final academic step for the musician...

Master of Music in Harpsichord (MMUS)

The Master of Music (M.Mus.) degree in performance is offered to students who have achieved necessary levels of attainment and who show potential of further significant accomplishment. This degree is often a final academic step for the musician who wishes to enter the professional world, although...

Master of Music in Opera (MMUS)

The Master of Music (M.Mus.) degree in Opera performance is offered to students who have achieved necessary levels of attainment and productivity at the undergraduate level, and who give reasonable promise of further significant accomplishment. This degree is often a final academic and performance...

Master of Music in Orchestral Instrument (MMUS)

The Master of Music (M.Mus.) degree in performance is offered to students who have achieved necessary levels of attainment and productivity at the undergraduate level, and who give reasonable promise of further significant accomplishment. This degree is often a final academic step for the musician...

Master of Music in Organ (MMUS)

The Master of Music (M.Mus.) degree in performance is offered to students who have achieved necessary levels of attainment and who show potential of further significant accomplishment. This degree is often a final academic step for the musician who wishes to enter the professional world, although...

Master of Music in Piano (MMUS)

The Master of Music (M.Mus.) degree in performance is offered to students who have achieved necessary levels of attainment at the undergraduate level who show potential for further significant accomplishment. This degree is often a final academic step for the musician who wishes to enter the...

Master of Music in Voice (MMUS)

The Master of Music (M.Mus.) degree in Voice performance is offered to students who have achieved necessary levels of attainment and productivity at the undergraduate level, and who give reasonable promise of further significant accomplishment. This degree is often a final academic performance step...
 

UBC Researchers conducting research in Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music), architecture and design

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Byrne, Fionn

School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Landscape architecture; Design innovation; Landscape studies (except architecture); Landscape design; Landscape ethics

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Carrabre, T. Patrick

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Music; construction of identity; creation of shared musical spaces with indigenous and non-western musicians; decolonization; use of interactive electronics

Cox, Susan

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Other medical sciences; Sociology and related studies; Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music), architecture and design

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Drljaca, Igor

Department of Theatre & Film, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Creative writing; Film, television and digital media; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Documentary FIlm; Film Production; Narrative Film; Screenwriting; Virtual Reality; Video and New Media

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Fisher, Alexander

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Music, n.e.c.; musicology; music; Sound Studies; History; religious history

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Georgopulos, Nicole

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Art history and theory; French art; nineteenth-century art and visual culture; art and science; gender and early feminism

Girling, Cynthia

School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Other Arts; Sustainable neighbourhood design; Vizualization and community engagement; Public realm design and planning

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Hamel, Keith

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Music composition; Composition; Interactive Computer Music

Hatef Naiemi, Atri

Faculty of Arts

Postdoctoral Fellow

History of art and architecture; Islamic Art, Architecture, and Archaeology; Early and Medieval Islamic Urbanism; Chinese-Persian Cultural Contacts in the Medieval Period; Byzantine Art and Architecture; History and Archaeology of Central Asia in the Medieval Period; Traditional Crafts in the Islamic World

Hermiston, Nancy Jane

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Performing arts, n.e.c.; Other medical sciences; opera, voice, theatre, interdisciplinary work with a diversity of fields and opera; Opera training and its effect on sculpting the brain - Wall Opera Project, Hermiston/L/Boyd/J Werker

Hesselink, Nathan

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Music; ethnomusicology; music analysis; entrainment; rhythmic play and social meaning; Anglo-American rock music; African American popular music

Hopkinson, Nalo

School of Creative Writing, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Creative writing, n.e.c.; Humanities and the arts; Creative Writing: Speculative Ficton, Fantasy, Science Fiction, especially Other Voices

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Jenkins, Carrie

Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Philosophy; Creative writing; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; Creative scholarship; Creative Writing; epistemology; Language and meaning; Metaphysics; Philosophy of love; Romantic love; Fiction; Poetry

Jun, Hyejung

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Music; choral

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Kamizaki, Kuni

School of Community and Regional Planning, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Architecture; Community development / social planning; Displacement; EDI perspectives and practice; housing; Planning theory

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Law, Hedy

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Opera; eighteenth-century French music; opera; pantomime; dance; gesture; sign; the Enlightenment; Cantonese music; Cantonese opera; Cantonese songs; tone language; global Cantonese music; global music history; gender and sexuality; music and race

Lyon, Annabel

School of Creative Writing, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Novels, stories and news

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Mansoor, Jaleh

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Art history and theory; Curatorial and related studies; Visual arts and media arts; Cultural Industries; Formalism; Marxism and Critical Theory; Marxist Feminism; Modernism; Twentieth Century European Art

Marshall, Hallie

Department of Theatre & Film, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Performing arts; Ancient Greek Theatre; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Classics; Contemporary British Theatre; Cultural Industries; History of the Book; Literary or Artistic Work Dissemination or Reception Contexts; Performance and Theatrical Productions; Poetry; Reception Studies; Religion, Culture and Space; Theatre; Tony Harrison

McCormick, Kelly

Department of History, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Asian history; Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Modern Japan; History of Visual and Material Culture/Photography; History of Technology; History of Gender and Sexuality

Monteyne, Joseph

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Art history and theory; Curatorial and related studies; Visual arts and media arts; Arts and Technologies; Renaissance/early modern art and print culture

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Nakamura, Fuyubi

Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social and cultural anthropology; Museum studies (Museology); Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Globalization and culture; Environment, space and place; Anthropology of art; museum studies (working as curator at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC); material and visual culture; Contemporary Japanese calligraphy; Indigenous cultures, especially Ainu; disaster and memory, especially in the context of the Great East Japan Earthquake (3.11).; contemporary Asian art and culture

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Peck, Alexandra

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social and cultural anthropology; Other studies related to history and archaeology; Art history and theory; Native tribes and First Nations in the Pacific Northwest; historical Northwest Coast art; Salish (Coastal and Interior) art; Anthropology/anthroplogical methods; Material culture, archaeology, museums

Perley, Bernard

Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Linguistic anthropology; Performance and installation art; Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Linguistic Anthropology; Indigenous studies; Language Revitalization

Pritchard, Robert

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Music composition; Linguistics; Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Composition; Interactive performance; Gesture tracking; Interdisciplinary performance; Hardware/software sensing

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Rizzotti, Patrick

Department of Theatre & Film, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Performing arts; design; Design and Planning of Space; Theatrical Productions; Virtual Reality; Augmented reality; design for new works; devised work; narrative visual experience; production design; site specific experiences; theatre design

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Shamash, Sarah

Faculty of Arts

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Media arts; Visual arts and media arts, n.e.c.; Global South Cinemas, Indigenous Media, Documentary, Intersectional feminisms, Decolonization

Silver, Erin

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Art history and theory; Curatorial and related studies; Visual arts and media arts; Activism and visual culture; Artist or Author Social Identity; Artistic and Literary Marginality; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; Canadian contemporary art; Feminist art histories; Movement culture; Performance studies; Queer art; social movements

Smith, Tai

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

History of art and architecture; Art theory and analysis; Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Arts and Technologies; Economical Contexts; Gender; media theory; Modern and Contemporary Art and Design; Politics of Media and Mediation; Textiles

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Thauberger, Althea

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Art history and theory; Curatorial and related studies; Visual arts and media arts; Biopolitics and institutional critique/reform; Media philosophy; Photographic history/theory; Settler decolonization, and site-based art and activism

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Valadares, Desiree

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Architecture; Social and economic geography; territoriality, occupation and empire in Canada and the non-contiguous US

Vellutini, Claudio

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Music; Critical Musicology; Cultural and reception history of nineteenth-century Italian opera; Early 19th century music (opera); Habsburg cultural policies; Historiography; Italian opera in the Habsburg Empire; Performance and staging practices; Vienna opera (first half of 19th century)

Vigna, John

Faculty of Arts

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Novels, stories and news; Fiction, Literary Non-Fiction, Creative Writing

Vujosevic, Tijana

School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Architecture; History and theory of architecture; Modern period, with special expertise in art and architecture of socialism

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Walsh, Shannon

Department of Theatre & Film, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Media arts; Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Social and cultural anthropology; South Africa; Afropessimism & Critical Race Studies; Documentary; Film Production; Indigenous studies; Environmental justice; Affect Theory

Whitney, Valerie

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Music; French Horn
 

Student & Alumni Stories in Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music), architecture and design

Dante Prado

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic Studies (PhD)

Laughter amidst wars and crises in German modernism

Alison Ariss

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Art History (PhD)

Salish Weaving in Relation with the Land: The Work of Wrapping Territory and Critiquing Institutions

Titilope Onolaja

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Art History (PhD)

Power and policy in West African museums: a comparative analysis of Nigeria and Senegal

Fiona Revill

Student

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA)

Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li

Student

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA)

On Chinese philosophy and memory: exploring Chan Buddhism recollection, ritual, and narrative

Emily Logan

Student

Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano (DMA)

The effectiveness of a psychological intervention program for University Music Students as a way to manage Music Performance Anxiety

Benjamin Hopkins

Student

Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano (DMA)

Performance & Protest: The Political Pianist

Samuel He

Student

Master of Music in Orchestral Instrument (MMUS)

Walker Williams

Student

Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition (DMA)
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Holly Bergeron-Dumaine

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Theory (PhD)

Critical music theory pedagogy

Risa Tonita

Student

Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano (DMA)

The pianist's self: Political action in piano performance as a relational practice

Aram Bajakian

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)

Navigating nostalgias: Musical identities in the Armenian diaspora

Claire Fogal

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD)

Western Canadian Evolutions of Decroux and Grotowski in Theatre Pedagogy, Practice and Performance

Santiago Farías Calderón

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD)

Crossing Borders: Translation, Translocation, and the Plays of Edgar Chías.

Matthew Tomkinson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD)

Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade: A Podcast

Julia Ulehla

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)

Living Song: A Multi-Generational Investigation of Moravian Folk Song

Kirk King

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)

Kadekaru Rinsho: His Life, His Music, and His Role in Restoring Okinawan Identity

Eshantha Peiris

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)

Up-country Drumming in 20th-century Sri Lanka: a Social History of an Evolving Musical Vocabulary

Jason Winikoff

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)

The Music of the Masks: Zambian Luvale Percussion, Makishi, and Timbral Aesthetics

Fabiola Bazo

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (PhD)

Exhibition: Feminist and queer interventions in contemporary urban popular music in Peru

Stephen Oppong

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD)

21st century receptions of classical greek theatre in Africa.

Jimmy Lo

Student

Master of Fine Arts in Film Production (MFA)

Visual research on multigenerational, transnational migration experiences of the Hong Kong diaspora in Vancouver, BC Canada

Callista Ottoni

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

Loneliness and social connection: A community-engaged study with older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic using visual and traditional methods

Denise Fong

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

Beyond Museum Walls: Storytelling Pacific Canada through Participatory Curation

Pamela Mackenzie

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Art History (PhD)

Microscope/Macrocosm: Early Modern Technology, Visualization and Representations of Nature

Titilope Salami

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Art History (PhD)

Power and Policy in West African Museums: A Comparative Analysis of Nigeria and Senegal
 
 
 
 
French Name
Arts (arts, histoire de l’art, performance, musique), architecture et design
French Description
Ce groupe comprend la recherche et le développement expérimental en Arts (y compris les arts et l'histoire de l’art, performance, musique), architecture et design.
 
 

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