The Interactive Media and Performance (IMP) Labs, along with the Department of Media Production and Studies, and the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Regina are pleased to present “Spaces of Violence, Sites of Resistance: Music, Media and Performance,” an international conference organized in collaboration with IASPM-Canada and the Canadian Society for Traditional Music (CSTM).  


The conference will include a wide representation of disciplinary and interdisciplinary frameworks that will provide multiple perspectives on and (re)evaluation of Spaces of Violence and Sites of Resistance as they relate to music, media, and performance.


Keynote Speaker - Dr. Jocelyne Guilbault, UC Berkeley


"Discordant Beats of Pleasure Amidst Everyday Violence:

The Work of Party Music in Trinidad"