Panel 1A: 9:15-10:30 IMPROVISATION, TEXT AND MEDIA

• Moderator: Ben Authers
• Nicholas Loess (School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph) and François Mouillot (Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University), "Improvisation and Urban Violence: Takes on the 2005 French Riots"
• Michael Mackenzie (Musicology, University of Toronto), "Jazz, Public Television, and Cosmopolitanism"
• Jaime Brenes Reyes (Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Guelph), "Improvisation as a Writing Technique in Cortazar's Hopscotch, or How Julio Invites the Reader to Play Along"

Panel 1B: 9:15-10:30 INSTRUMENTS, BODIES, VOICES

• Moderator: Joe Sorbara
• Catherine Lee (Music, McGill University), "The Role of Improvisation in the Development of my Voice as a Performer in Rafales (2007) by Jerome Blais"
• Louise Campbell (Music Education, McGill University), "Move and Be Moved: Improvisatory Movement Practices for Musicians"
• Scott Herder (School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph), "Improvising Culture and the Body's Instruments"

Panel 2A: 10:45-12:00 BODIES IN TECHNOLOGY AND IN NEW MEDIA

• Moderator: Doug Horne
• James Gordon Williams (University of California, San Diego), "Chopped 'n' Screwed: T-Pain's Improvising Body as a Virtual Simulacrum for Agency"
• Rebecca Caines (Improvisation, Community and Social Practice, University of Guelph), "(e)Scaping the Body: Working with Communities in New Media Improvisation"
• Melvin Backstrom (Musicology, McGill University), "'Was That Really a Performance?': Laptop Music and its Specters"
• George Blake (Ethnomusicology, University of California, Santa Barbara), "A New Rhythm to an Old Form: Tradition, Innovation, and the Trope of Syncopation in 'Late Minstrelsy"

Panel 2B: 10:45-12:00 BODILY KNOWLEDGE, CULTURAL MEMORY, PUBLIC SPACE

• Moderator: Christine Bold
• David Jackson (Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario), "Resonant Cities: Soundscape, Space and Culture"
• Jovana Milovic (Philosophy, University of Toronto), "Public City"
• Lindsay Vogt (Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara), "Making Moves in Nature: Restriction, Space, and the Emergent Water Cultures of a Southern California River"

Lunch - 12:00-1:00

Panel 3A: 1:15-2:30 IMPROVISATION, COGNITION, EMBODIMENT

• Moderator: Georgina Born
• Roger Dean (MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney, Australia), “Loudness, Intensity and Affect in Jazz and Free Improvisation Performance and Cognition”
• David Ross (Education, McGill University), “Activating Bodies of Knowledge: Improvisation, Cognition, and Sports Education”
• Charity Chan (Musicology, Princeton University) “In the ‘Absence’ of Sound: Cultural Memory, Bodily Knowledge, and Non-Sonic Practices in Creative Improvisation”

Panel 3B: 1:15-2:30 BODIES IN JAZZ HISTORY

• Moderator: Sherrie Tucker
• Sarah Caissie (Musicology, Brandeis University), “The Early Performed Jazz Retrospective”
• Howard Spring (School of Fine Art and Music, University of Guelph), “Embodying Jazz: The Black Body at the Beginning of Swing”
• Eddie Meadows (Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles), “Islam and Jazz: Context and Testimonies from the Bebop Era”
• Pete Williams (American Studies, University of Kansas), “Weird Bodily Noises: Embodying Race, Gender, and Jazz History in Kansas City”

Panel 4A: 2:45-4:00 PEDAGOGY

• Moderator: Gillian Siddall
• Melissa Walker and Rob Jackson (School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph), "Play-ability: Improvisation, Agency, and the Body in the 'Play Who You Are' Workshops”
• Karen Duplisea (Theatre School Dance Program, Ryerson University), “A Dialogue Between Art and Dance: Painting into Improvisation”
• Simon Rose (Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, UK), “Free Improvisation’s Relationship with Education”

Panel 4B: 2:45-4:00 DESIRE AND SIGNIFICATION

• Moderator: Karl Coulthard
• David Lee, “Dance, Deconsecration, and Salvation: Ellington at Newport 1956”
• Michael Szekely (Liberal Arts,Temple University), “A Pulsional Ontology of Music: Barthes and Beyond”

5:00 SIMULTANEOUS DISCOVERIES, VIRTUAL COLLABORATIONS

• Launch for Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice Website

5:30 TELEMATIC PERFORMANCE

• Pauline Oliveros, Anne Bourne, Ben Grossman, Jesse Stewart, Ricardo Arias, Doug Van Nort, Curtis Bahn, and Jonas Braasch (Ontario/USA/Colombia)

8:00 LAUNCH OF IKONS

• An installation by George Lewis and Eric Metcalfe (USA/British Colombia)
• Performance: Ellen Waterman and Daman Holzborn (Newfoundland/USA)

Keynote 9:15-10:30

• Introductory remarks: Sherrie Tucker (American Studies, University of Kansas)
• Alex Lubet (Music and American Studies, University of Minnesota), “(Paralyzed on One) Sideman: Disability Studies Meets Jazz, through the Hands of Horace Parlan”

Panel 5: 10:45 – 12:00 ABSENT BODIES, VIRTUAL BODIES

• Moderator: Katherine McLeod
• Tamas Dobozy (English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University), “Body Songs”
• Kimberly Hannon (Eastman School of Music), “Mary Lou and Billie Jean”
• Andrew Raffo Dewar (University of Alabama), “Re-Performing Art Tatum: Zenph Studios, Steven Mayer, and the Ontology of the Improvising Body”

Lunch 12:00 – 1:00

Workshop 1: 1:00 – 2:00 BODIES IMPROVISING/IMPROVISING BODIES: MUSIC, DANCE, AND CHANCE

• Ben Grossman (host), Germaine Liu, Dianne Chapitis, Lynette Segal, Julie Lassonde, Nilan Perera, Jeff Reilly, Carlos Siri (Ontario / Nova Scotia)

Panel 6: 2:15-3:30 DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION

• Moderator: Deborah Wong
• Sharon Morgan Beckford (Department of English, St. Mary’s University), “What and Who is a Dancehall Queen, and What Does the Dancehall Queen Competition Offer Women?”
• Wilson Blakely (Philosophy, McGill University), “Listening to the Growing Edge: How we Tune-in to the Dancing Body”
• Angela Blumberg (York University) and Augusto Monk (Music Education, University of Toronto), “Improvisation Theory for the 1st to 5th Dimension”

4:00 COMMUNITY SOUND (e)SCAPES

• Launch of Community Sound (e)Scapes sound art project
• Rebecca Caines (Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice, University of Guelph)

5:15 PERFORMANCE: ROGER DEAN, THE MULTIPIANO SHOW (AUSTRALIA)

Plenary Panel 1: 9:00-10:15 CHICAGO SLOW DANCE: THE AACM IN CONVERSATION

• Moderator: Lincoln Beauchamp Jr.
• With Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, George Lewis

Plenary Panel 2: 10:30 – 12:00 MUSIC IMPROVISATION SOFTWARE: AN INTERFACE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

• Moderator: Ellen Waterman
• Pauline Oliveros (Deep Listening Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Gillian Siddall (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lakehead University), Sherrie Tucker (American Studies, University of Kansas), Ellen Waterman (Music, Memorial University), Leaf Miller (Deep Listening Institute / Abilities First Inc), Jaclyn Heyen (Deep Listening Institute), Sergio Hazard (Sergio Hazard,Children's Rehabilitation Institute, TELETON, Santiago-Chile), Paula Josa-Jones [Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works, ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association), and Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies]

Lunch 12:00 – 1:00

Workshop 2: 1:00 – 2:00 PLAY THE DRUM! IMPROVISING WITH REAL AND VIRTUAL DRUMS ACROSS ABILITIES

• Pauline Oliveros (Deep Listening Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Leaf Miller (Deep Listening Institute / Abilities First Inc), Jaclyn Heyen (Deep Listening Institute), Paula Josa-Jones [Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works, ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association), and Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies], Gillian Siddall (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lakehead University), Sherrie Tucker (American Studies, University of Kansas), Ellen Waterman (Music, Memorial University).

Panel 7: 2:15-3:30 RACE ETHNOGRAPHY, HYBRIDITY

• Moderator: Ric Knowles (University of Guelph)
• Charles C. Smith (University of Toronto at Scarborough), "Wind in the Leaves: Improvisation in Interdisciplinary Performance"
• Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston (Anthropology, Wilfrid Laurier University), "Improvising Bodily Contagion in Performance-Centered Research in Postsocialist Poland"
• Paul Watkins (School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph), “The Jazz Sample: Flow, Layering, and Rupture in Hip Hop”
• David Leahy (Département des lettres et communications, Université de Sherbrooke), “Touching the Rhythm: How Improvisation Embodies Values”

4:00-4:30: BODY AND SOUL: AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CYRILLE (conducted by Rob Wallace)

• Andrew Cyrille (Jazz and Contemporary Music, The New School, New York)
• Rob Wallace (English, University of California, Santa Barbara)