SO proud of this special issue of Performance Matters that I edited with Melissa Poll and hugely thankful to the contributors and their deep, conscientious, creative embodied thinking and labor.
https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm
Conferences and Public Papers
(Forthcoming) Working Group “Moving Together” with Melissa Poll, Canadian Association for Theatre Research: Parition/Ensemble
(Forthcoming) “Moving in Relation” choreographic paper with Alana Gerecke, Canadian Association for Theatre Research: Parition/Ensemble
(Forthcoming) “A Gathering about Gatherings” long table with Jill Carter and Stephen Johnson, Canadian Association for Theatre Research: Parition/Ensemble
2020 Storying Indigenous Futures Through Dance and Film: Researching Red Card with Cara Mumford, Canadian Indigenous/Native Studies Association For the Seventh Generation Imagining and Creating Indigenous Futures
2019 Opening Keynote Plenary: What Can Critical Decolonial Community Based Storytelling Research Offer Aging Studies?, North American Network of Aging Studies and European Network of Aging Studies
2019 Manifesting Resistance: Documenting (Media Lab), Decolonizing Technologies: Reprogramming Education HASTAC
2019 Slowing Down, Reaching Out: Decolonizing Research and Teaching, Performance History Working Group, Canadian Association for Theatre Research
2019 Manifesting Resistance, Reconceptualizing Archive: Indigenous Memory Practices, Women’s and Gender Studies and Recherches Feministes
2019 Ethics in Research, Participating in Research and Manifesting Resistance, Festival of Original Theatre, Roundtable
2018 Picking up my Bundle in the Aftermath: A Performance History Decolonizing my Childhood Home, Impossible Projects: Challenging Barriers of Expression
2018 Creative Work for Social Change with Kwe in Nogojiwanong: A Conversation with Hilary Wear and Mindy Knott, Impossible Projects: Challenging Barriers of Expression
2018 River as Archive, River as Witness: Research Methods in Question Around Spectacle and Ceremony in Mìwàte at Chaudière Falls, Canadian Association for Theatre Research Performance History Working Group
2018 (forthcoming) Sideshow Freaks, Invisible Women and Seeing One Another Again: Monique Mojica’s Izzy M. as Audience Medicine, ASTR: Indigenous Performance Research in the Americas
2018 Sarah de Carlo, Images and Processes: A Public Interview, Intersections Series, Trent University
2017 Iron Eyes Cody, Keep America Beautiful, and Dark Parody in Sarah De Carlo’s Land of the Silver Birch, ASTR: “Indian Parts”
2017 Pedagogies of Resistance in the Performance Classroom,Qualitative Analysis
2017 Atomic Performances: Local Nuclear Culture and Living on the Edge of the End of the World; Seminar Leader and paper, The Naturalization of Disaster, Seminar Leader, Canadian Association for Theatre Research
2017 Radical Listening: What I learned from a Nineteenth-Century Hysteric, Festival of Original Theatre, University of Toronto
2016 Moving Forward by Moving Back: Mixed-Ancestry Authorship in Productive Crisis, Impossible Projects Symposium, Clarkson University
2016 Feminine Writing/Hysterical Grammar: (Re)Reading Cixous and Clément, Panel Coordinator, NEMLA
2015 Over-painting Surviving Icons of Hysteria, University of Toronto Comparative Literature Graduate Conference: “Survival”
2015 A Methodological Question: Screaming Unknowable Content and Writing Listening Without Hearing(also a Respondent), North Eastern Modern Language Association
2014 Trusting Theatre, Experiencing Science: The Force of the Hysteric’s Cry, “What Performs?” American Society for Theatre Research Conference
2014 Convoluted Methodologies: The Value of the Poetic Dialectic in Epistemological Research, “Borders without Boundaries” Canadian Association for Theatre Research Conference; Congress of the Humanities
2013 Ethical Research and the Historical Document of the Hysterical Patient, “At The Edge” Canadian Association for Theatre Research Conference;
2013 Can You Love a Stranger? The Ethical Edge of Listening, “On Love” Colloquium at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
2012 Performance and Paper: Babel: The Destructive Gift of Prosody, The Future of Cage: Credo, Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies and The Faculty of Music, University of Toronto
2012 Is There a Post-Debord?: Occupy Protest as (Social) Media Spectacle, “Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World:Alter-Globalization,” Canadian Association for Theatre Research; Congress of the Humanities
2012 Pigeon: Choreography from Unsent Letters and the Status of the Document, Collaboration: Intersections, Negotiations, Mediations in the Worlds of Dance, Canadian Society for Dance Studies, UQAM
2010 Bataille and Babel: The Gift of Prosody, Theory, Culture and Politics MA Symposium “Re:Presentations;” Trent University
Guest Lectures and Invited Talks
2021 (forthcoming) “Getting to Know the Cedar Nation: Gaps in the Family Archive and River as Witness,” Clarkson University, sponsored by Canadian Studies
2020 “The Stories we Tell,” Enwayaang: The Way We Sound Together student-nominated talk, Trent University
2020 “Jiimaan, that Teaching Sister,” Seeley Women in Leadership Luncheon, Lady Eaton College, Trent University
2020 “Artist Talkback: Chemical Valley Project” Moderated Talk with Broadleaf Theatre, Public Energy
2020 “Restorying Place as Indigenous Feminist Methodology” Graduate Foundations in Gender and Feminist Studies: Discovering Feminist, Decolonial Research, Trent University
2019 “Why We Make This Work, Here, Now” Precarious Festival, with Jill Carter (Anishinaabe/Ashkenazi), Olivia Whetung (Michi Saagig), and Jon Lockyear, Artspace
2019 “Enawendewin: Artist Talk” with William Kingfisher, Kerry Beebee and Dave Deleary (also Lisa Myers and Anong Beam), Artspace
2019 “Power to the Babies: Sovereignty, Many Relatives, Leanne and Audra Simpson;” Gender Race and Class WMST 3860, Trent University
2019 “Land Based Performance Research Methods,” Graduate Foundations in Gender and Feminist Studies: Discovering Feminist, Decolonial Research, Trent University
2018 “Indigenous Artistic Activisms” Trent Talks in High School Classrooms, J Richardson, Ajax; Thomas A Stewart, Peterborough
2018 “Methodology Is Hot Gluing Seed Beads into Nan’s Broken Necklace” Graduate Foundations in Gender and Feminist Studies: Discovering Feminist, Decolonial Research, Trent University
2018 “How I Finished My Thesis: Keeping the Writing Relationship Lively,” Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, U of T
2018 “My Performance as Research Practice: How Screaming, Trying to Fit Myself into a Teapot, and Drawing with Strangers Has Shifted my Knowledge Practice” U of T PhD Seminar in Performance Research Methods
2017 “Symbolism, Surrealism and Expressionism,” Comparative Theatres, University of Toronto
2017 “What is a PostDoc” Panel Discussion, Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, U of T
2017 “Exhibitions of Everything: Spectacular Bodies,” UofT Mississauga
2017 “Doing Archival Research,” Graduate Research Methods, U of T
2015 “Over-painting Surviving Icons of Hysteria,” “Intersections” Public Speaker Series, Trent University, Gender and Women’s Studies
2014 “Queer Black Masculinities on the Dance Floor” and “Feminist Epistemologies,” Media and Society, Trent University
Publications
Cole, J. (2022) “Lament for Confederation, Chief Dan George [Geswanoth Slahoot]: Assertions of Sovereignty” in Canadian Plays and Performance Documents and Debates: A Sourcebook. U Alberta Press.
Cole, J. (2021) Hysteria in Performance. McGill Queens UP.
(Forthcoming) Cole, J. (2023) “Kanawenjigewin: Learning to Care for One Another in Circle” in Teaching in the 21st Century: Reflections on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom, ed. Natalie Kouri-Towe
(Forthcoming) Cole, J. (2022) Jiimaan, That Teaching Sister: Archival Practices of Care and Consent for Canadian Association for Theatre Research 190: Acts of Preservation.
Cole, J. and Poll, Melissa (2021) eds. Special Issue of Performance Matters: “Performing (in) Place: Moving on the Land.”
Cole, J. (2021) “Dwellings” in Canadian Theatre Review: Views and Reviews 188.
Cole, J. (2021) “Re-Storying Ensembles” in Canadian Theatre Review: Views and Reviews 186.
(Forthcoming) Cole, J. with Ziysah Von Beiberstein and William Kingfisher (2021) Hidden Anatomy/ Tactile Community. O! Underworld Press
(Forthcoming) Nozhem: Bear Space Virtual Exhibition of the story of Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space with oral histories by Marrie Mumford, Elder Edna Manitowabi, Elder Shirley Williams, and Daystar Rosalie Jones
(Forthcoming) Cole, J. with Tasha Beads and May Chazan (2021) “Critical Conceptions of Aging: Decolonial Perspectives in 2020” for Critical Humanities and Ageing: Forging Interdisciplinary Dialogues, ed. Thomas Cole, Kate de Medeiros And Marlen Goldman, Routledge.
(Forthcoming) Cole, J. with Marrie Mumford (2021) Review of Performing Turtle Island, Canadian Journal of Native Studies
Cole, J. with Marrie Mumford (2020) “Celebrating Sovereignties: Indigenous Performance in Canada,” Theatre der Zeit Spezial Kanada (Germany).
Cole, J. (2020) “Negotiating Encounters: Embodiments and Edges” in Canadian Theatre Review: Views and Reviews 184.
Cole, J. (2020) “What Water Bodies Remember” for University of Toronto Press Journals Blogs.http://blog.utpjournals.com/2020/06/01/what-water-bodies-remember/
Cole, J. (2020) “Editorial: Negotiating Encounters: Embodiments and Edges” in Canadian Theatre Review: Views and Reviews 184
Cole J. And Chazan, M. (2020) “Making Sovereign Memory, Making Memory Sovereign” in Memory Studies.
Cole, J. (2020) “Stepdancing the asinig (rocks) with pierogies,” in Poems for Reading: Five Poets, One Reader, ed. Dale Tracy. Also published on periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, ed. Rob Mclennan.
Cole, J. (2020) “Shanty Songs and Echoing Rocks: Upsurges of Memory Along Fault Lines of Extraction” in Canadian Theatre Review 180.
Cole, J. (2019) “You are Enough: Love Poems for the End of the World: Review” in Muskrat Magazine. Also appears on reddit.
Cole, J. (2019) “Review of Julie Burelle’s Encounters on Contested Lands” in Theatre Annual.
Cole, J. (2018) “Relinquishing Expertise: Notes on Indigenous Feminist Performance Methodologies” in Canadian Theatre Review 178.
Cole, J. (2018) “I am Dancing with the Ancestors and there is Joy in it,” in Feminist Space Camp ed. Tita Kyrtsakas and Jess Watkin: online.
Cole, J. (2018) “Following Nan to the Kiji Sibi” in Unsettling Activisms. Critical Interventions on Aging, Gender, and Social Change, Eds. Melissa Baldwin, May Chazan and Pat Evans. Toronto: Women’s Press/Canadian Scholars Press.
Cole, J. (2018) “Artist Statement” and Cover Art in Unsettling Activisms. Critical Interventions on Aging, Gender, and Social Change, Eds. Melissa Baldwin, May Chazan and Pat Evans. Toronto: Women’s Press/Canadian Scholars Press.
2017-18 Writer in Residence for Truth and Reconciliation Report Reading Project 2984with Claude Wittman
(forthcoming) Cole, J. (2018) “Performing Lumberjacks, Performing Waters” in Theatre Documentation and Reconstruction Project. Online.
(forthcoming) Cole, J. (2018) “Relinquishing Expertise: Notes on Indigenous Feminist Performance Methodologies” in Canadian Theatre Review178.
(forthcoming) Cole, J. (2019) “The Work it Takes to Build a Home: Resource Extraction and Decolonized Return in Kiji Sibi Watershed Territory” in Canadian Theatre Review180.
(forthcoming) Cole, J. “The Uncommon Force of Stammering: An Anachronistic Myth of Babel’s Gift of Music” in The Future of Cage: Credo, Ed. Nikki Cesare-Schotzko.
Cole, J. (2018) “Following Nan to the Kiji Sibi” in Unsettling Activisms. Critical Interventions on Aging, Gender, and Social Change,Eds. Melissa Baldwin, May Chazan and Pat Evans. Toronto: Women’s Press/Canadian Scholars Press.
Cole, J. (2018) “Artist Statement” and Cover Art in Unsettling Activisms. Critical Interventions on Aging, Gender, and Social Change,Eds. Melissa Baldwin, May Chazan and Pat Evans. Toronto: Women’s Press/Canadian Scholars Press.
Cole, J. (2018) “Be Changed and then Don’t Stop: What 2894Can Do” on 2894.ca [http://2894.ca/attachments/Jenn_Cole_2894%20ready%20to%20publish%20April%2029%20copy.pdf]
Cole, J. (2017) “Horrific Flesh, Holy Theatre” in Invisible Cultures27.
Cole, J. (2017) “Gatherings Manifesto: A Call to Performance Writers and Makers” in Gatherings. Ed Jenn Cole. Jackson’s Creek Press.
Cole, J. (2016) “Anthropology and Philosophy: A Dynamic Engagement. A Review of The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy” in TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 35.
Cole, J. (2015) “Good Dirt: A Performance Reflection” in Hysteria: Hysterical Feminisms:UK. Online and in print. Co-authored with Gina Brintnell and Myrto Koumarianos (solicited written work from co-authors, compiled final document for submission, engaged in editorial process to press).
Cole, J. (2013), “Madness and Gesture: The Political Act of Crying Out in Nineteenth-Century France” in Dalhousie Review [Special Edition, Make Believe: Fact and Friction], 93 (1): 77-92.
Cole, J. (2013), “Pigeon: Choreography, Tyranny, and the Status of the Document in Relation to Dance” inCanadian Society for Dance Studies Conference Proceedings. Online [http://www.csds-sced.ca/English/Resources/Cole.pdf]
Cole, J. (2012) “Danger Music: On the Intimacy of Screaming” inToronto Review of Books; Chirograph. Online.
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