Colloquia, Public Presentations, and Guest Lectures
“Dancing in Silence: The New Global Rave Culture.” The Flatland Scratch Seminar and Workshop Series III, Nov. 2008.
“Representations of Gangsta’ Rap in Regina: The Case of Robin Favel.” WMST Gender and Popular Culture, Fall 2008.
“Don’t Call Me Eskimo: Hip Hop Culture in Nunavut.” School of Music Colloquium Series on Canadian Music,
University of Toronto, Fall 2008.
“What it Feels Like for a Girl: The Triumphs and Transgressions of Madonna’s Imaginary Cyborgs.” University of Regina
Queer Initiatives Speakers Series, Fall 2008.
The Flatland Scratch Seminar and Workshop Series I, II, III. Creator and Organizer.
"Z Axis: Technique, Collaboration, Innovation.” Discussant for Panel Discussion on New Media Practice, Fall 2008.
“Hip Hop in Saskatchewan.” Roundtable for Launch of Interactive Media and Performance (IMP) Labs, April 2, 2008.
“Lez Girls Part One: Representations of Desire on the L word or Why all the Girls love Shane.” University of Regina Queer
Initiatives Series, March 2008.
“Digital Queers.” FA 400/800 Graduate Lecture, March 2008.
“Interactive Media and Performance.” Fine Arts Lecture Series, September 2007.
“Hip-Hop on the Prairies: Negotiating ‘Traditional’ and Contemporary Perspectives.” Trent University Colloquium Series,
Peterborough, ON, Febraury 2007.
“Imagining Female Ecstasy: Queer Experience, (Un)Conventional Narrative, and Rave Culture.” Faculty
of Fine Arts Lecture Series, University of Regina, SK, November 2004.
“Post Gender Possibilities?: Monsters, Zombies, and Cyborgs.” Sex and Gender, SOSC 212,
University of Regina, SK, November 2004.
"Interpreting Home: Björk's Representations of an Icelandic Diaspora." Women and Music, MUS 320,
University of Regina, Regina, SK, November 2004.
“Reading Musical Texts and the Negotiation of Meaning.” Music Appreciation MUS 100, University of
Regina, Regina, SK, October 2004.
“What is Ethnomusicology?: An Introduction.” Public Lecture, University of Regina, SK, October 2004.
“Romantic Composers and their Public.” Music Appreciation MUS 100, University of Regina,
Regina, SK, October 2004.
"It's about the freedom to dance: Youth, Moral Panic, and Toronto's Rave Culture."
Music and Society SOSC 2830 9.0, York University, Toronto, April 2003.
"Björk's Fusion of the "Natural" and "Technological" in Homogenic: Locating Iceland in the Musical
Texts." Scandinavian Lecture Series, University of Alberta, Edmonton, November, 2002.
"The Blurring of Conventional Boundaries in Björk's Music and Music Videos.” Women in Scandinavian
Literature and Popular Culture SCAND 356, University of Alberta, Edmonton, November, 2002.
"Rave Culture: The History and Politics of the Rave Subculture turning Mainstream." SOC 2830 9.0,
York University, Toronto, March 2002.
"Women and Popular Music: Bubblegum Pop and Cock Rock." Women and Society SOSC 1185 9.0,
York University, Toronto, March 2002.
"Björk: Analysis of her Music, Image(s), Music Videos." Gender and Music AK/MUSI 3390,
York University, Toronto, February 2002
"Opening Doors and Creating Spaces: Confronting Equity Issues in the Classroom."
Teaching Development GA Workshop, York University, October 2001.
“Women and Popular Music: Constructing the Virgin/Whore Dichotomy.” Women and Society SOSC
1185 9.0, York University, Toronto, Sept 2000.
“Subverting the Conventional Through Spaces of Ecstasy: Exploring the Musical Narratives of Queer
Women in Rave.” Music 6010 Colloquium, York University, Toronto, May 2000.
“Björk's Fusion of Nature and Culture.” Gender and Music AK/MUSI 3390,
York University, Toronto, July 1999.
“Disrupting Dichotomies in Electronica: Björk's Fusion of Nature's Goddess and Technology's Cyborg.”
Music 5010 Colloquium, York University, Toronto, May 1999
