Conference Presentations and Panels

Ashley Bellet

“Balancing Act: Broad and Narrow Experiential Learning Constructs in Higher Education” (with Hough, T.) Presented at the Society for Experiential Education, New Orleans, LA, 2024.

Ma and the Energetic Negative: Framing the Agency of Wearable Space” Critical Costume, Los Angeles, CA, 2024.

“The Dynamic Assemblage: Challenging the Agency of the Costumed Body” Performance Studies International, London, England, 2024.

“Assembling Cultural Iconography to Create New Transglobal Narratives” (with Mounague, S.) Performance Studies International, London, England, 2024

“Costume Design Pedagogy.” (with Adams, J.*, Galioto, J., Keenan, G., and Souza, M.) USITT National Conference, Seattle, WA, 2024.

“Defining the Object-Dynamic in Composition: The Vibrant Concepts of Shi and Ma and Their Roles in Object Agency.” Puppetry and Material Studies Working Group, ASTR Annual Conference. Virtual, 2023.

“The Costume-Objects of Sonia Biacchi: Discovering, Constructing, and Inhabiting the Object+Body+Space Dynamic.” Paper Presentation, SETC Theatre Symposium, Decatur, GA, 2023.

“Interdisciplinary Approaches in Teaching Theatre” (with Amidei, A.) ATHE National Conference, Austin, TX, 2023.

“To Print or ePrint?” (with Gross, C.) Presented at World Stage Design, Calgary, Canada. Virtual, 2022.

“Practice-Based Research for Theatre Designers and Technicians.” Adjudicated Digital Poster presented by the Education Commission at the USITT Annual Conference and Stage Expo, Baltimore, MD, 2022.

Quetta Carpenter

"Establishing personal connection in a digital world," Keynote, Strengthening Teaching and Research Capacity: Collaborative Partnerships in Social Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University, August 2022.

Rich Dionne

“Three-Year capstone design: an innovative interdisciplinary preparation for authentic engineering practice" (with Pilotte, M.) Presented at the ASSE Annual Conference and Exposition, Baltimore, MD, 2023.

“STEM and art; failure and success.” Presented at the Purdue TEDx Modern Renaissance, West Lafayette, IN, 2022.

“Roundtable Discussion presenting and discussing pedagogical innovations for experiential theatre making,” (with Bartley, S., Villareal, A., Lewis, W., Johnson, S., Luber, S.) Presented at the Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Detroit, MI, 2022.

William W. Lewis

“Gaming the Future: Digital Tools for Choice Making as Experiential Exchange,” working group paper presentation at American Society for Theatre Research annual conference, Seattle, WA, November 2024.

“Gaming the Future: Devising using Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Device Interaction,” pecha kucha presentation and roundtable for Association for Theatre in Higher Education annual conference, Atlanta GA, August 2024.

“Gaming the Future: Pluralistic Agonism Under Deep Mediatization,” paper presentation for Performance Studies International annual conference, London UK, June 2024.

“Posthuman Entanglements of Gamification: Ludic Criticality and Meaningful Play in Molleindustria’s Phone Story,” working group paper presentation for American Society for Theatre Research annual conference, Providence RI (Online Session), November 2023.

“A Game of Telephone: Interdisciplinary Collaboration as Model for Reimagining the Season Planning Process,” paper presentation and roundtable discussion for Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Austin, TX, July 2023.

“A Game of Telephone: Interdisciplinary Experience Making for Interactive Audiences,” paper presentation for Symposium on Education in Entertainment and Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, July 2023.

“(Re)Imagining the Polis: Audience Participation as Postdramatic Discourse in How Much is Enough? Our Values in Question,” paper presentation at the Comparative Drama Conference, Orlando, FL, March 2023.

“Resisting Algorithmic Determination: Facing the Political ‘Other’ in Blast Theory’s Operation Black Antler,” paper presentation at Mid-America Theatre Conference, Minneapolis MN, March 2023. 

“Game of Telephone: Experiential Stories and Memory Persistence in Future Societies,” paper presentation at Mid-America Theatre Conference, Minneapolis MN, March 2023. 

“Resisting Algorithmic Determination: Facing the Political ‘Other’ in Blast Theory’s Operation Black Antler, working group paper presentation at International Federation of Theatre Research annual conference, Reykjavik, Iceland. June 2022.

“Entering the Void: Haptic Interface and Affective Agency in VR Experiences,” working group paper presentation at American Society of Theatre Research annual conference, New Orleans LA. November 2022.

“Resisting Algorithmic Determination: Facing the Political ‘Other’ in Blast Theory’s Operation Black Antler,” paper presentation at Society of Literature, Science and the Arts annual Conference, W. Lafayette, IN. October 2022.

“Collaborative Conceptualization and User Experience Design,” paper presentation at Association for Theatre in Higher Education annual conference, Detroit, MI. August 2022.

“Experiential Theatres: An Introduction, book launch roundtable participant at Mid-America Theatre Conference, Pedagogy Symposium, Cleveland, OH. March 2022.