Conferences

Snowber, C. (Oct 2022) Site-Specific Performance as a Portal – Part of Panel on INSPIRED:Investigating Spirituality and Resilience in Contemporary Dance. Dance Studies Association Conference 2022 - Dancing Resilience: Dance Studies and Activism in a Global Age. Vancouver, Oct. 16, 2022. In person.

Snowber, C. (Sept. 2022) My body is the earth/the earth is my body: Site-specfic performance and an ecology of place. Panel on Bodies of work Bodies at work. Arts Research Africa. The Wits School of the Arts. Sept. 14, 2022.

Snowber, C. (May 2022) Performance as Research/Research as Performance: An International Perspective (IACAET) The International Association for Creative Arts in Education and Therapy Webinar Series. Part of a panel. Curated by Vivien Marcow Speiser. May 8, 2022. Online.

Snowber, C. (May 2022) Fragments can hold a world. 8th International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry, CapeTown, South Africa, May 26, 2022. Attendance online. 

Lyle, E., Snowber, C., (May 2021) Walking as Attunement: Being with/in nature as Currere Part of Symposium panel on Walking as Attuning to an Earthly Curriculum: A Métissage of brief provocations. 49th CSSE Conference. Online.

Snowber, C., Irwin, R., Bickel, B. (May, 2021). Arts Presidential Keynote Panel. Significance of Artful Teaching, Learning, and Living in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond. 49th CSSE Conference. Online, May 30, 2021.

Conrad, D., Eppert, C. Snowber, C., Rip, C., Schuurman-Olson, S., Dunleavy, R., Pacholok, T., Friesen, K., Varga, S., Hough, A., Pigford, N., ( (May, 2021). Symposium, Aesthetic Responses to Living ia Time of Climate Crisis. 49th CSSE Conference. Online, May 31, 2021.

Snowber, C. Eastwest Somatics Online Conference. (2020, Oct, 10-11). Dancing poetics: Water, stories and the body.

Snowber, C. & Wiebe, S. (2019, Oct). Intertidal poetics: A lexicon of coasts. Seventh International Symposium on Poetic. The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Snowber, C. & Kieft, E. (2019, Aug). Water, stories and the body: site-specific work in seascapes. Cultural, Intercultural and Transnational Dialogues in Dance and Spirituality, Moving Soma: The Centre for Embodiment and Somatic Movement Education and Therapy. Cheltenham, England.

Snowber, C. & Sanders, J. (2019, July). Embracing chance and moving toward (un)knowing. MAKING. International Society for Education through Art. (2019, July 9-13). UBC, Vancouver, B.C.

Park, S. & Snowber, C. (2019, July). Spiritual punctuation: The meeting of art and mystery in daily life. MAKING. International Society for Education through Art. (2019, July 9-13). UBC, Vancouver, B.C.

Snowber, C. (2019, May). Body, spirituality and passion: Embodied ways of inquiry in vocation. Plenary speaker. Spirituality in Society and the Professions International Conference. Waterford, Ireland.

Cancienne, M.B., Snowber, C. Ricketts, K.  (2018, April). Dancing into wide-awakeness: A tribute to the Maxine Greene High School for the arts and imaginative inquiry through site-specific performance. Part of a symposium “Response abilities II: Generating arts-based research with Martin Luther King Jr. and Maxine Greene High School for the arts and imaginative inquiry. “ American Educational Research Association. New York, NY.

Snowber, C., Harris, A., Rickkets, K.  (2018, April). Interactive Performance/Discussion.  Those who are left standing: Exploring creative practices attending to grief.  American Educational Research Association.  New York City NY.          

Snowber, C.  (2018, April). Blue waiting: An ecopoetics between land, sea and the lived curriculum. American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies.  St. Johns College, New York, (Queens) NY.

Wiebe, S., Leggo, C. Richardson, P., Conrad, D, Sameshima, P., Lloyd, R., James, K., Walsh,  S., Fels, L., Gouzouasis, P., Snowber, C., Meyer, K., Kentel, J., Walsh, S., (2017, May). Re(mixing) curriculum playlists: Responses of synopsis and expansion, Symposium session at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON.

Stein, S., Deer, F., Snowber, C. (2017, May). Witnessing and Responding to the Historical Present as Socially/Politically-Engaged Academics, Education and the fantasies of ontological security. Panel at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON.

Snowber, C. & Cancienne, MB., (2017, April). Response Abilities: Performing arts-based research with Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Martin Luther King, Jr., - Take Two. Part of Panel,  “Reexperiencing democracy through the arts as scholarly work in the public sphere.” American Educational Research Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

Wiebe, S., Leggo, C. Kentel, J., Lloyd, R., Conrad, D., Sameshima, P., Hasebe-Ludt, E., James, K., Meyer, K., Gouzouasis, P., Fels, L., Snowber, C. (2017, Feb). The Art of Mixing:   Curriculum as Playlist. Symposium session at the Eighth Biennial Provoking Curriculum Conference. McGill University, Montreal, QC.

Fels, L., Kelly, Meyer, K.  V., Ricketts, K., Snowber, C. (2017, Feb). Radical openness as curricular breath. Eight Biennial Provoking Curriculum Conference. McGill University,       Montreal, QC.

Snowber, C., Kieft, E., Williamson, A. (April 19-22, 2017). Spirituality and dance research in the 21st century. Dance Fields: Staking a Claim for Dance Studies in the 21st Century Conference Staking a Claim for Dance Studies in the 21st century.  University of Roehampton, London, UK.

Snowber, C., & Cancienne, M.B. (April 9, 2016). Bodypoems: Dancing for justice through site-specific performance in “Response Abilities: Generating Arts-Based Research with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Martin Luther King.

Snowber, C., Sussekind, M., Autio, T., Casemore, B. (2016, April). Reconceptualization of Curriculum Studies Panel. American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. George Washington University, Washington DC.

Culhane, D. & Dickinson, P. (Chairs)Panel with Colby, S., Turner, S., Snowber, C., Kazubowski-Houston, M. & Wiktor, K. (2016, March–April) Ethnography, Performance, and Pedagogy – Promises, Problems and Possibilities, and Ways Forward in Transdisciplinary Research, Practice, and Pedagogy. Part 11: Performance Pedagogies: Inside and Outside the University. Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, BC.

Wiebe, S., Snowber, C., Walsh, S. (2015, October). Curriculum triage: A poetic inquiry into the value shadows of what cannot be admitted. 5th International Poetic Inquiry Symposium. UBC, Vancouver, BC.

Ricketts, K., Snowber, C., Fels, L. & Kelly, V., (2015, October). Fragments of echo-tracing: Living into the poetics of temporality. 5th International Poetic Inquiry Symposium, UBC, Vancouver, BC.

Fels, L., Kelly, V., Ricketts, K., Snowber, C. (2015, October). Interrupted Vulnerabilities: An Ecotracing of Embodied Poetics and Place. The 10th Anniversary VERGE Conference, School of the Arts, Media & Culture, Trinity Western University, Langley, BC.

Snowber, C., Ricketts, K., Fels, L., Kelly, V. (2015, October). Fragments of Echo-Tracing: Living into the Poetics of Temporality. 5th International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.  

Wiebe, S., Snowber, C., Walsh, S. (2015, October). Curriculum Triage: A Poetic Inquiry into the Value Shadows of What Cannot be Admitted. 5th International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Snowber, C., Ricketts, K. & Robson, C. (2014, May). Appropriate appropriations: What happenswhen we tell other people’s stories? CSSE, St. Catherines, ON.

Snowber, C., Ricketts, K., Fels, L, & Kelly, V. (2014, April). Encountering tensions within collaborative artistic inquiry: An ecotracing. AERA, Philadelphia, PA.

Snowber, C. (2013, November). Woman giving birth to a red pepper. 14th Annual Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Snowber, C. and Ricketts, K. (2013, June). Autobiographical footsteps. CSSE, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.

Snowber, C. with A. Sinner, R. Dalton, W. Hurren, M. Emme, B. Zuk (2013, June). Symposium on Living Artfully: Mapping The Geophilosophy Of Artists - Researchers-Teachers On The Far West Coast. CSSE, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.

Bickel, B., Snowber, C., Walsh, S., Bai, H., Fels, L.. Kelly, V., Mesner, K., Park, S., Rabi, S. (2013, June). Contemplative and Artistic Practices in Research and Pedagogy, CSSE Congress Conference. Victoria, BC.

Snowber, C. and Bickel, B. (2012, April). Oracular visionings and listenings. Panel (with C. Snowber, B. Bickel, C. Leggo, V. Kelly, L. Fels & H. Bai, and S. Walsh.): Contemplative and Artistic Practices in Research and Pedagogy at the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum. Vancouver, BC.

Snowber, C. and Wiebe, S. (2012, April). The visceral imagination: A fertile space for nontextual knowing. Part of symposium Sensual curriculum: Making educational sense through the senses. AERA, Vancouver, BC.

Snowber, C. (2012, April). An embodied invitation to the unborn song: A dancer/poet’s response to Gandhi and Tagore. Symposium (with E. Malewski, M. Suri, S. Sharma and R. Whitlock): Why Gandhi now? Reclaiming education for the social majorities. AERA, Vancouver, BC.

Snowber, C., Fels, L., Lane, J. (2012, May). Suspending Scholarly Conventions: A Walk into Transformation. Learning Together Conference: Engaging the World, Faculty of Education, SFU, Harbour Centre. Vancouver, BC.

Snowber, C. & Margolin, I. (2012, September). Shifting Bodily Perceptions and Engaging the Dancer from the Inside Out. Healthy Dancer Canada 5th Annual Conference: DanceMyth and Facts. The Dance Centre, Vancouver, BC.

Snowber, C. with K. Ricketts, & L. Fels (2011, April). Curriculum Encounters Through Performative Inquiry and Embodied Narratives. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. 

Snowber, C. and G. Diaz (2011, April). Situated Visceral Inquiry. American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. Bourbon Orleans Hotel. New Orleans, LA. 

Snowber, C. and S. Wiebe. (2011, May/June). The Visceral Imagination: A Fertile Space for Non-Textual Knowing. Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference. University of New Brunswick, Fredericktown, NB.

Snowber, C. with V. Kelly & L. Fels (2011, May/June). Ecotracing: Inquiry through Site-Specific Performance. Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference. University of New Brunswick, Fredericktown, NB. 

Snowber, C. and I. Margolin (2011, May/June). Embodied Inquiry: Living Into/Beneath our Own Skins. Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference. University of New Brunswick, Fredericktown, NB. 

Snowber, C. with Diaz, L. Fels & K. Ricketts (2011, January). A Wound Creates the Sky. Narrative, Art-Based and “Post” Approaches to Social Research. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. 

Snowber, C. (2010, April). Arts-Based Educational Research SIG business meeting: Mentoring Arts-Based Educational Research in the Academy Today. Invited panel guest with E. Eisner, R. Irwin, C. Leggo, P. Slattery and G. Sullivan at AERA, Denver, CO.

Snowber, C. & Diaz, G. (2010, April). Waves of Wonder: A pedagogy of curiosity. The American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, 9th Annual Meeting. Denver, CO.

Snowber, C. (2009, October). Bodypsalms. Holistic Learning: Breaking New Ground – The Seventh International Conference. Jointly sponsored by University of Waterloo and OISE/U of T, Geneva Park Conference Centre, Orillia, ON.

Snowber, C. and Wiebe, S. (2009, October). To flourish and nourish with poetry: An intertextual autobiography of spiritual practice. 2nd International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry – Poetry as a way of knowing, Charlottetown, PEI.

Snowber, C. & Fels, L. (2008, October). Listening to the flesh: A performative inquiry. Performing the World Conference, New York, NY.

Snowber, C. et al (2008, March). Longing as a place of Identity. Session: Embracing intimacy and the authentic self through spirituality, the arts, and education at the  American Educational Research Association Conference. New York, NY.

Snowber, C. (2008, March). The poetics of academic life: A memo(pause) through tenure sabbat(i)cal and beyond. American Association of Curriculum Studies Conference. Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Snowber, C. (2007, October). Freeing the body within. Pre–conference workshop: Holistic Learning: Breaking New Ground at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON.

Snowber, C., Smith, S.J. & Milloy, J. (2007, June). Writhing, writing and riding: Phenomenological acts of an essential corporeality, 27th International Human Science Research Conference, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.

Snowber, C. (2007, April). The soul moves: Dance in educative practice. Symposium: Spirituality in Arts Education at AERA, Chicago, IL.

Snowber, C. with with P. Gouzouasis, K. Ricketts, Anne-Marie R. LaMonde, L. Ramsey and A. Mackie (2007, April). New forms of narrative in arts-based research. Explorations in music, dance, dialogue and play. AERA, Chicago, IL.

Snowber, C. (2007, April). Beneath the skin of plum black: Armenian identity through the poetic. American Association of Curriculum Studies. University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.

Snowber, C. (2006, October). Inlet Prayers: A performative exploration of inner and outer landscape. The 7th Annual Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference. Marble Falls, TX.

Snowber, C. (2006, October). Confessions of a Closet Dualist. The Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Practice.  Dayton, OH.

Snowber, C. (2006, March). The Mentor as Artist: A Poetic Exploration of Teaching Aesthetically. INSEA International Society of Education through Art Congress, Viseu, Portugal.

Sanders, J. H. III & Snowber, C. (2005, October). Tenure & Promotion: Performing Productivity as a Poetics of Process. Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Conference on Curriculum and Pedagogy: Curriculum for a Progressive, Provocative, Poetic, and Public Pedagogy, Oxford, OH.

Snowber, C. & Sanders, J. (2004, April). Dancing Reflexivity: Deconstructing Architectural Discipling of Discourse. American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA.

Snowber, C., Young, D., Park, J., & Cancienne, M. (2004, April). Living Imaginatively: Artists as Educators and Researchers. AERA, San Diego, CA.

Snowber, C., Diaz, G., Donovan, L., Dunlop, R., Salvage, J., Manifold, M., McKenna, M., & Latta, M. (2004, April). Teaching for Aesthetic Experience: The Art of Learning. AERA, San Diego, CA.

Snowber, C. (2004, April). Love Undissected: A Performative Look at Sexuality and Spirituality. American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AACS), University of San Diego, San Diego, CA.

Snowber, C. & McCaslin, S. (2003, June). Dancing Merton’s Hagia Sophia: A performative and literary exploration into the fullness of knowing. 8th Conference and General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Snowber, C. (2003, May). Cultivating an aesthetics of everyday life for transformative leadership. Presented at CSSE, Halifax, NS.

Snowber, C. (2003, April). The curriculum of casting off. Presented at American Association of Curriculum Studies (AACS) at National Louis-University, Chicago, IL.

Snowber, C. & Bai, H. (2003, February). Approaches to Pedagogy of Mindfulness Provoking Curriculum Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Snowber, C. & Ferneding, K. (2002, October). Sustaining your soul through the tyranny of tenure. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing Conference, Dayton, OH.

Snowber, C., Lloyd, R., & Smith, S. (2002, June). The textualities of flow: Inciting dialogue at the edges. International Human Science Research Conference, Victoria, BC.

Snowber, C. & Zuccaro, M. (2002, May). Opening limbs: The listening flesh. Embodied Knowing Conference in conjunction with CSSE, Toronto, ON.

Snowber, C. (2001, October). Dancing the narrative of the soul. Holistic learning: Breaking new ground. 3rd International Conference at OISE, Toronto, ON.

Snowber, C. (2001, October). Bodyfire: Tracing the terrain of eros and grief. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing Conference, Dayton, OH.

Snowber, C. & Freed-Garrod, J. (2001, October). Sabbath stone: Creating a space for stillness in curriculum through dance, sound, and sculptural landscape. 2nd Annual Conference on Curriculum and Pedagogy, Victoria, BC.

Snowber, C. (2001, April). Body narratives: Dancing in and out of orality and auto/biography. AERA, Seattle, WA.

Snowber, C. (2001, February). Cultivating spirit and body in the teacher’s life. Presented at Westcast 2001: Finding the courage to teach in a changing world at University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

Snowber, C. (2000, November). Inside out/outside in: Performing a theorizing of the body through the body. Presented at the Arts-Based Educational Research Conference, Austin, TX.

Snowber, C. (2000, October). Grammar of the gut: Fleshing out inquiry through body narratives. Presented at the JCT Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH.

Snowber, C. (2000, May). Body pedagogy. Presented at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities and the Canadian Society for Studies in Education, Edmonton, AB.

Snowber, C. & Smith, S. (2000, April). Dancing the pedagogy of gesture. Presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting: Creating knowledge in the 21st century: Insights from multiple perspectives, New Orleans, LA.

Snowber, C. (2000, February). Dancing into wonder: Excavating the erotics of the everyday. Presented at the Arts-Based Educational Research SIG of the AERA at “Art’s based educational research: Creating space for synergy” in Albuquerque, NM.

Snowber, C., Doll, M.A., & Cancienne, M. (1999, October). Loosening Ties, Creating Selves: A Performance Narrative. Presented at the Journal of Curriculum Conference, Bergamo, OH. Also presented at AERA conference 2000, New Orleans, LA.

Snowber Schroeder, C. (1999, February). Panel on Dance Education in Vancouver. Dance Educators Workshop in conjunction with The Kiss Project at Performance Works, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC.

Snowber Schroeder, C. (1998, October). The erotics of the everyday. Presented at Bergamo Conference in conjunction with Journal of Curriculum Theorizing at Bloomington, IN.

Snowber Schroeder, C. (1998, June). Flooding and remembering: Bodily reflective modes to living and writing. Presented at International Human Science Conference at Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka, AK.

Snowber Schroeder, C. (1997, October). Dancing into language: The body as pedagogy. Presented at Bergamo Conference in conjunction with Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Bloomington, IN.

Snowber Schroeder, C. (1997, October). Embodied spirituality: The dance of heart and body. Presented at Holistic Learning: Breaking New Ground, OISE, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

Snowber Schroeder, C. (1997, March). Beyond the span of my limbs. Presented at Hybrid or Hype?: Varied Perspectives on Interdisiplinarity in conjunction with UBC’s Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program and Green College, Vancouver, BC.

Snowber Schroeder, C. & Gerofsky, S. (1996, October). Beyond the span of my limbs: Gesture, number and infinity. Presented at Bergamo Conference in conjunction with Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Monteagle, TN.

Snowber Schroeder, C. (1996, May). Writing and the body. Presented at Curriculum as Narrative/Narrative as Curriculum: Lingering in the Spaces Conference at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

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