AERA Arts & Inquiry 2025 SYMPOSIUMS AND PERFORMANCES

Practicing the Possible: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Improvisation Toward Remedy and Inclusion

Wed, April 23, 9:00 to 10:30am, The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Room 112, Working Roundtable Session, Chair: Lisa Marie Siciliano, University of Illinois at Chicago

Embodying Memory, Time, and Space: Improvisation to Explore Personal History in Qualitative Research - Lora Cawelti, University of Southern California

Surfacing the Musical Self Through Playful Improvisation – Ethan Rubin, University of California – Irvine

The Things We Make, and the Stories They Tell: Unpacking Ethnogastronomic Repertoire through Autoethnography – Phebe Chew, New York Hall of Science

“Now, become frat boys”: Embodied Improvisation and Identity Play in Devised Theatre - Lane Cosic, Vanderbilt University

Yes, and …! Enacting Inclusion by Way of Theatre Improvisation – Kailea Saplan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

A Portrait of Responsive Structure in Improvisational Choreographic Pedagogy – Lauren Vogelstein, Teachers College, Columbia University

Documentation, Collective Memory, and Agency: The Power of Collaborative Theatre Across the Lifespan Thursday, April 24, 1:45 to 3:15 pm, The Colorado Center: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1, Roundtable Session

Chair: Drew Xavier Coles, Teachers College, Columbia University

Theater for the Very Young: Children as Co-collaborators of Creative Experience – Jaclyn Lauren Dudek, UJosh Hayes, Sarah AIRasheed, Liyan Yang, University of Kansas

Collaborative Creation: Young Girls Re-scripting Their Experiences and Beliefs of Puberty, Menstruation, and Girlhood: Julie Snyder, Pennsylvania State University

Documentary Theatre as a Place of Collective Memory of the War – Daria Vystavkina, Cologne-Bonn Academy in Exile

Moments, Movements, and Manifestations: Documentation as Medium in Chicago Artists Partnership in Education, CoLab Teaching Partnerships

Poetry, Music, and. Embodiment: Arts Education in the Postmodern, Friday, April 25^th, 1:30-3:00 pm, The Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1, Roundtable Session

Chair: Jennifer Bartee, University of the District of Columbia

Languaging Dance: Audio Description and Poetry – Carolina Bergonzoni, Cape Breton University

Layers of Reflection: A Self-Study Through Blackout Poetry and El Duende One Canvas Art Making – Eleni Duret, San Jose State University

Research on Other Space: Re-listening New Music through a Live Music Performance – Xiaoyue Zhang, The George Washington University

The Arts and Inquiry SIG Business Meeting and Outstanding Dissertation Award Presentation,

Friday, April 25^th, 7-8:30pm, The Colorado Convention Center, Room 113, Business Meeting

Presentation by Dissertation Award Winner, Javier Cardona Otero, Indiana University - Bloomington, College of Education

After presenting the Outstanding Dissertation Award and a brief business meeting, we invite optional 2–3-minute informal sharing of arts and inquiry related works in progress. All are welcome.

Critical Explorations of Identity, Racial Trauma, and Human Experience in Arts Education

Saturday,  April 26^th, 1:30-3:00 pm, The Colorado Convention Center, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3, Roundtable Session

Chair: Stanley Andrisse, From Prison Cells to PhD

Exploring Human Traits and Behaviors through Creative Machines: Implications of Contemporary Artists Practices for AI Use in Art Education – Borim Song, East Carolina Univ.; Ahran Koo, California State Univ.

Racial Trauma, “Hidden Injuries,” and “Healing Methodologies”: Embracing Participatory Arts-Based Methodologies with Students of Color. – Laura Azzarito,  Columbia University

Self-Cultivation to Academic Success: Effects of Stress and Psychological Characteristics among Performing and Non-Performing-Arts Students – Tal Vaizman, The George Washington University; Gal Harpaz, The Open University of Israel; Anita Kanski, Nora Sebestyen, Ildiko Gaal, Hungarian Dance University

Trans-Queering the Repair Train: Performing Research as Remedy, Saturday, April 26^th, 5:10-6:40pm, The Colorado Convention Center, Meeeting Room Level 104, Symposium

Chair: Daniel X. Harris, RMIT University

“But When I Put the Tongue On …” : Attuning to Trans*versal Assemblages with a Visual Arts-Praxis – EJ Renold, Cardiff University

Homonostalgia: Queering the Archive through Speculative Composition – David Ben Shannon, University of Sheffield; Sarah E. Truman, University of Melbourne

Queering the Crip Time of Not-Becoming Fluent in Phonics: A Close Reading of Drawn Spelling Lists – Laura Trafi-Prats, Manchester Metropolitan University

A Remedy of Hap: What Education Can Learn from Transgender Scholarship – Daniel X. Harris, RMIT University