Conrad, D. (2022, July). Engagement, authenticity and advocacy in “Youth Uncensored”: Ethics in applied theatre research with street-involved youth. International Drama in Education Research Institute Conference. Warwick University, Coventry, UK.
Conrad, D. (2022, June). Image theatre & comics creation as youth participatory action research. Children, Youth and Performance Conference. York University, Toronto, ON.
Conrad, D., Eppert, C., Snowber, S. & Schuurman-Olson, S., Friesen, K., Dunleavy, R., Pacholok, T., Rip, S., Varga, S., Hough, A. & Pigford, N. (2021, June). Aesthetic responses to living in a time of climate crisis [symposium]. CSSE, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB.
Conrad, D., Fysh, S., Rip, S., Tigner, M. & Buckle, M. (2021, June). Drama and performance for social justice in schools. Children, Youth and Performance Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.
Conrad, D. & Wiebe, S. (2020, Oct.) Educational fabulations: Imagining teaching & learning for a world yet to come. Connections Virtual Symposium. Artful Inquiry Research Group. McGill University, Montreal, QC.
Conrad, D. (2019, Sept.). Youth incarceration: To what end? Building Abolition: A Critical Prison Studies Conference. Banff, AB.
Conrad, D., Belczewski, A., Baker, J., Rosolen, Porter, D., S, Stewart, S. (2019, June). “Stories of hope”: Land-based engagement for partnership development supporting Indigenous education CSSE, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
Conrad, D., Donald, D., Saddleback, D., Moostoos, E. & Burns, N. (2019, June). Hopes and challenges of partnership development for reconciliation curriculum connections with three Indigenous schools. CSSE, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
Levesque, M., Greer, G., Mandrona, A., Akbari, E., MacEntee, K. & Conrad, D. (2019, April). Arts learning and arts practices in Canada: Responses to post-truth. AERA, Toronto, ON. (Discussant)
Conrad, D. (2019, April). Performing white settler identity accountably in relation with an Indigenous community. American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. OISE, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
Conrad, D., Onita, A., Buckle, M. & Sutankayo, L. (2019, March). What do reconciliation or decolonization look like? An arts-based curriculum inquiry. Provoking Curriculum, University of Regina, Regina, SK.
Shabtay, A., Conrad, D., Wessels, A., Ewing, R., Ostashewski, M., Rosler, B., McAvoy, M., Tanner, C., Pugliese, T. & Harman, R. (2018, Oct.). Empowering children and youth through the performing arts. Art as an Agent for Social Change: Art Inquiry Research Group Symposium. McGill University, QC.
Conrad, D., Linds, W. & Carter, M. (2018, June). Addressing our responsibilities for reconciling with Indigenous perspectives by working through Our Wildest Dreams. Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed Conference. Indiana, PA.
Rosolen, S., Conrad, D., Baker, J., Stewart, S., Scribe, C. & Belczewski, A. (2018, March). Celebrating stories of hope: Decolonizing Indigenous education. Think Indigenous Conference. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK.
Donald, D., Conrad, D., Big Head, R., Underwood, M., & Saddleback, D. (2017, July). A youth exchange through arts & technology: Stories of identity, culture, community & place. WorldIndigenous Peoples Conference on Education, Toronto, ON.
Eppert, C., Conrad, D., Salverson, J., van Wyck, P. & Soutar, A. (2017, May). Complexities of environmental witnessing through theatre: Engaging Soutar’s Watershed, Salverson’s Shelter, and other plays. Plenary Panel. Canadian Association for Theatre Research, Toronto, ON.
Weibe, S., Leggo, C., Conrad, D., Sameshima, P. James, K., Fels, L. Snowber, C., Richardson, P., Lloyd, R., Gouzouasis, P., Walsh, S. (2017, May). Re(mixing) curriculum playlists: Responses of synopsis and expansion. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Toronto, ON.
Conrad, D., Donald, D., Saddleback, D. & Underwood, M. (2017, May). On dwelling with this place. The Idea of Place: Space and Culture 20th Anniversary Conference, Edmonton, AB.
Weibe, S., Leggo, C., Conrad, D., Sameshima, P. James, K., Fels, KL. Snowber, C., Richardson, P., Lloyd, R., Gouzouasis, P., Walsh, S., Kentel, J., Hasebe-Ludt, E., Meyer, K. (2017, February). The art of mixing: Curriculum as playlist. Provoking Curriculum Conference. Montreal, QC.
Conrad, D., Jagger, T., Bleeks, T. & Auger, S. (2017, February) Arts-based curriculum encounters: What does it mean to live on this land? Provoking Curriculum Conference, Montreal, QC.
Conrad, D., Donald, D., Boffa, A., Underwood, M. & Big Head, M. (2016, June). A youth exchange through arts & technology: Stories of identity, culture, community & place. CSSE, Calgary, AB.
Conrad, D., Keeler, S., Kapasi, A. Pei, J., & Hobbs, C. (2016, June). Moving the Mountain:An alternative educational program for young Aboriginal women. CSSE, Calgary, AB.
Conrad, D. (2015, May). Community-service learning in drama education – postmodern art and pedagogy The Quebec Society for the Study of Theatre Arts, Ottawa, ON.
Wiebe, S., Richardson, P., Conrad, D., Fels, L., Snowber, C., Meyer, K. (2015, May). The school bus symposium: A journey of sensory experience. International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. Ottawa, ON.
Conrad, D., Donald, D. & Krahn, M. (2015, May). An Aboriginal youth curriculum exchange through arts & technology – Stories of culture, identity, community & place. International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. Ottawa, ON.
Conrad, D. (2015, May). Uncensored: Participatory Arts-based Research with Youth. iCreate Cape Breton: Fostering Youth Resilience in the Face of Slow Violence. Cape Breton University, Cape Breton, NS.
Conrad, D., Donald, D. & Krahn, M. (2015, Feb.). Provoking understanding through community mapping curriculum inquiry. Provoking Curriculum. Vancouver, BC.
Conrad. D. & Uncensored project (2015, Feb.). Uncensored evaluation video. Child neglect, wellbeing and artsbased practices symposium. With Scotland, Creative Scotland and School of Education, University of Stirling. Stirling, Scotland.
Conrad, D. & Guiney Yallop, J. (2014, May). Approaches and processes of arts-based researchers: A panel of Arts Researchers and Teachers Society (ARTS) members. Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE). St. Catharines, ON.
Donald, D., Conrad, D. & Krahn, M. (2014, May). Addressing Aboriginal education: Conditions, viewpoints, and aspirations across two diverse communities. CSSE. St. Catharines, ON.
Tomczky, P. & Conrad, D. (2014, May). Drama education, drama therapy and applied theatre: Implications for change through education. CSSE. St. Catharines, ON.
Conrad, D. (2013, June). An arts-based social network site: Youth educating service providers about their experiences. Arts on the Edge: arts, research, education, activism and gender informed justice, Victoria, BC.
Conrad, D. & Beck, J. (2013, June). Articulating an arts-based research paradigm. CSSE, Victoria, BC.
Conrad, D. (2013, May). Challenges in performance-based research creation with vulnerable youth. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, Illinois.
Conrad, D. & Beck, J. (2013, May). Articulating an arts-based research paradigm. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, Illinois.
Conrad, D. (2012, Oct.). Evaluating youth outcomes of the “High Risk Youth Uncensored: workshops for service providers” Project. Canadian Association for Art Therapy Conference, Edmonton, AB.
Conrad, D., Hunt, L. & Mumtaz, N. (2012, May). Evaluating youth outcomes for “High Risk Youth Uncensored”. CSSE, Waterloo, ON.
Conrad, D. & Sinner, A. (2012, May). Creating together: Participatory, community-based and collaborative arts practices and scholarship across Canada. CSSE, Waterloo, ON.
Conrad, D. (2012, May). Athabasca’s Going Unmanned: An ethnodrama about applied theatre research with incarcerated youth. Panel: Practice-based Research in Canadian Theatre Canadian Association for Theatre Research, Waterloo, ON.
Conrad, D. (2012, April). High risk youth Uncensored: An educational exchange. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Vancouver, BC.
Conrad, D. (2011, Oct.). Transformative arts-based practices in schools?: Lessons learned from drama research with youth in prison. Provoking Curriculum Conference, Edmonton, AB.
Conrad, D. (2011, April). Athabasca’s Going Unmanned: An ethnodrama about applied theatre research with incarcerated youth. AERA, New Orleans, LA.
Conrad, D. & Coulis, M. J. (2011, Jan.). Performing experiential understanding: Imagining escape & cycling through grief. Narrative, Arts-based and “Post” Approaches to Social Research, Tempe, AZ.
Conrad, D. (2010, July). Athabasca's Going Unmanned: Applied theatre research with incarcerated youth. International Drama/Theatre & Education Association, Belem, Brazil.
Conrad, D. (2010, June). In search of the radical in performance: Theatre of the Oppressed with incarcerated youth. Panel: Theatre of the Oppressed with youth. Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed, Austin, TX.
Conrad, D. (2010, May). Ethnodramatic playwriting as collaborative work. CERA Symposium: The collaborative turn: Working together in qualitative research. CSSE, Montreal, QC.
Conrad, D. & Coulis, M. J. (2010, May). Performing experiential understanding: Imagining escape & cycling through grief. CSSE, Montreal, QC. performance.
Conrad, D. (2009, Sept.). Violence at school, the violence of schooling, restorative alternatives: Restorative justice as a model for schools. International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. Cape Town, South Africa.
Conrad, D. (2009, July). Performing incarceration: Applied theatre with incarcerated youth. International Drama in Education Research Institute. Sydney, Australia. dramatic reading
Conrad, D. & den Heyer, K. (2009, May). Becoming a social justice focused teacher education program. CSSE, Ottawa, ON.
Conrad, D. (2008, Oct.). Lock 'em up, but where's the key? Transformative drama with incarcerated youth. UNESCO Canadian Arts & Learning Symposium, Kingston, ON.
Conrad, D. (2008, June). The ethics & aesthetics of performing Incarceration: Dramatizing applied theatre-based research with youth in prison. CSSE, Vancouver, BC. dramatic reading
Conrad, D. (2008, April). Lock 'em up, but where's the key? Transformative drama with incarcerated youth. Researching Applied Drama Theatre and Performance, Exeter, UK.
Conrad, D. & Hunt, L. R. (2008, April). Setting goals for a brighter future: Image theatre and digital photography with incarcerated youth. Researching Applied Drama Theatre and Performance, Exeter, UK.
Conrad, D. (2007, Sept.). Popular arts-based research with incarcerated youth: In search of transformative potential. Symposium: Developing democratic dispositions: Qualitative methodologies as/and civic education in Canada and Northern Ireland. Advances in Qualitative Methods, Banff, AB.
Conrad, D. (2007, Aug.). The transformative potential of drama in the education of incarcerated youth. American Alliance for Theatre and Education. Vancouver, BC.
Conrad, D. & Campbell, G. (2007, June). Playback theatre and new paradigm research. Playback in the Academy Conference. Windsor, ON.
Conrad, D. & Krammer, D. (2007, May). An arts-based study of incarcerated male youths’ constructions of gender identity. CSSE, Saskatoon, SK.
Conrad, D. & Spence-Campbell, S. (2007, April). Popular arts on the inside: Digital storytelling with incarcerated youth. AERA, Chicago, IL.
Conrad, D. & Krammer, D. (2007, Feb.). Exploring visual literacy and identity through drama with incarcerated youth. Provoking Curriculum Conference, Banff, AB.
Conrad. D. (2006, Nov.). Ethics & desire: When a “good girl” researches “bad boys.” An Academic Homeplace: An International Community in Teacher Education. Centre for Teacher Education, U of A, Edmonton, AB. Roundtable
Boora, R., Conrad, D. & Spence-Campbell, S. (2006, Oct.). Flattening the world from the inside: Digital storytelling with incarcerated youth. E-Learn 2006: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Conrad, D. (2006, June). An interdisciplinary arts-based research centre at the University of Alberta. Unsettling Conversation: An Arts and Education Practice Based Research Collaborative Inquiry, Vancouver, BC.
Conrad, D. (2006, May). Justice for youth versus a curriculum of conformity in schools and prisons. CACS President's Symposium. CSSE, Toronto, ON.
Conrad, D. & Campbell, G. (2006, May). Arresting change: Popular theatre with young offenders. Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed Conference, Chapel Hill, NC. performance.
Conrad, D. (2005, Oct.). Performance ethnography: A participatory method for arts-based research. Three popular theatre projects. Canadian Society for Education through Art. Edmonton, AB.
Conrad, D. (2005, July). “Life in the sticks:” Youth experiences, risk & popular theatre process. American Alliance for Theatre and Education, Chicago, IL.
Conrad, D. (2005, May). Popular theatre with young offenders. CSSE, London, ON.
Conrad, D. (2005, May). Drama, role theory and “at-risk” youth: Implications for teacher education. Association for Canadian Theatre Research, London, ON.
Conrad, D. (2005, April). Re-thinking “at-risk” in drama education: Beyond prescribed roles. AERA, Montreal, QC. Roundtable
Conrad, D. & Campbell, G. (2004, July). Arresting change: Popular theatre with young offenders. International Drama/Theatre and Education Association Conference, Ottawa, ON. Performance
Conrad, D. (2004, May,). Reframing "at risk:" Popular theatre explores youths' perceptions of their risky behavior. CSSE, Winnipeg, MB.
Mirror Theatre with Conrad, D. (Feb., 2004). Shadows: Examining the power relationships in the field experience through audience participation theatre. Western Canadian Association for Student Teachers Conference, Edmonton, AB. performance
Conrad, D. (Feb., 2004) Power relations in and out of the classroom: A sociodrama workshop. Western Canadian Association for Student Teachers Conference, Edmonton, AB. workshop
Conrad, D. (2004, Jan.). Two risky school dance stories: Autoethnographic narrative informs research on risky youth behaviour. Advances in Qualitative Methods, Edmonton, AB.
Conrad, D. & Campbell, G. (2004, Jan.). Arresting change: Popular theatre with young offenders. Advances in Qualitative Methods, Edmonton, AB. Performance
Conrad, D. & Campbell, G. (2003, Oct.). Arresting change: Popular theatre with young offenders. Performing the World Conference, Montauk, NY. Performance
Conrad, D., Campbell, G. & Kamau, O. (2003, May). Popular theatre: A participatory, arts-based research method. Advances in Qualitative Methods, Banff, AB.
Conrad, D. (2003, April). Unearthing personal history: Autoethnography & artifacts inform research on youth risk-taking. AERA, Chicago, IL.
Conrad, D., Campbell, G., & Kamau, O. (2003, April). Popular theatre as arts-based, participatory pedagogy & research. AERA, Chicago, IL.
Conrad, D. (2002, March). Data collection, analysis and dissemination through drama: Exploring media advertising through drama with inner-city students. International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, Edmonton, AB.
Conrad, D. (2001, Oct.). Ethnodrama as arts-based research & pedagogy. Curriculum & Pedagogy Conference with Arts-Based Educational Research, Victoria, BC
Mirror Theatre with Conrad, D. (2001, Oct.). Shadowing: Relationships in student teaching. Curriculum & Pedagogy Conference with Arts-Based Educational Research, Victoria, BC. Performance
Conrad, D. (2001, Aug.). Drama, media advertising and inner city students. American Alliance for Theatre and Education, San Diego, CA.
Conrad, D. (2001, April). Exploring media advertising through drama with inner city students. AERA, Seattle, WA.
Conrad, D. (2001, March). Popular theatre and today’s youth. Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference, Omaha, NB.
Campbell, G., Conrad, D., Kamau, O., Smith, L. & Spence-Campbell, S. (2001, Feb.). Examining the construct of desire through popular theatre and improvisational drama. Advances in Qualitative Methods, Edmonton, AB. Performance
Conrad, D. (2001, Feb.). Creating ethnodrama as a research tool. Advances in Qualitative Methods, Edmonton, AB.
Conrad, D. (2000, May). Popular theatre: Pedagogical implications. CSSE, Edmonton, AB.
Mirror Theatre with Conrad, D. (2000, April). What’s the fine line? AERA, New Orleans, LA. performance
Mirror Theatre with Conrad, D. (2000, April). Re-search: Re-play. Qualitative Health Research, Banff, AB. performance
Conrad, D., Douziech, K., Helgren, K. & Perley, M. (1999, Feb.). Arts-based research through arts-based methods. Advances in Qualitative Methods, Edmonton, AB.