Performance And Visual Studies Professors Present Research At Oregon Conference
The conference panels were organized by Angenette Spalink, Ph.D. with presentations by Leo Cardoso, Kim Kattari and Cory LaFevers.
Four faculty members in the Performance and Visual Studies program recently presented their research at the Society for Literature, Sciences and the Arts conference at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon.
The August conference is designed to bring together colleagues across sciences, engineering, technology, medicine, the humanities and the arts, as well as independent scholars and artists, according to its website.
The conference panels were organized by Angenette Spalink, Ph.D., academic graduate program director for the Performance Studies master’s degree and associate professor.
“It was exciting to have such a strong presence of Performance Studies faculty from the college at the conference,” Spalink said. “Hearing my colleagues’ rigorous and dynamic research was invigorating.”
Spalink presented “Risky Entanglements: Mosses and (Im)Materiality in Cryptic’s Below the Blanket.”
Leonardo Cardoso, Ph.D., associate professor, presented “Mud, Sirens, Wind: An Acoustic Approach to Environmental Risk in Contemporary Brazil.”
Cory LaFevers, Ph.D., senior lecturer, presented “Tyler Childers Performing Risk Management in Country Music.”
Kim Kattari, Ph.D., associate professor, presented “The Risk of Raving in Ukraine.”
