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2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: “Sheets of Sound: Jazz, Improvisation, and Liner Notes”
2024-09-11 09:00 - 2024-09-13 16:00 (America/Toronto) | ImprovLab, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Please join us from Wednesday, September 11 to Saturday, September 13 for the “2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, Sheets of Sound: Jazz, Improvisation, and Liner Notes.”
This colloquium will take place in person at ImprovLab (Room 108) in the MacKinnon Building. The event is free and open to everybody.
Since 1996, the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, co-presented by the University of Guelph in partnership with the Guelph Jazz Festival, has brought together diverse communities of interest by providing a scholarly forum for dialogue among researchers, creative practitioners, arts presenters, and members of the general public.
The focus of this year’s colloquium is “Liner Notes.”
In what ways have liner notes shaped the way the music is received? To what extent do liner notes contribute to the ways in which we negotiate and construct meaning about the music, how we understand history, how and why we listen? In what ways have digital dissemination and streaming services disrupted our notions of liner notes? And how has this shifted listener/audience understanding about their favourite artists?
Featuring keynotes by Daphne Brooks (Department of African American Studies, Yale University) and Ashley Kahn (NYU Tisch School of the Arts), this year’s edition of The Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium showcases panels, workshops, and artistic presentations that creatively respond to these tasks, and that take up the question of what it means to use the liner note genre to write about jazz and creative improvised music.

Open Scholarship and RDM Brown Bag: Research Data Management 101
2024-09-12 12:00 - 12:45 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
In this first RDM brown bag, you will learn all about how research data management (RDM) is being shaped at the national level through the Tri-Agency RDM Policy, on campus through the U of G RDM Institutional strategy, and how it might impact you. Here is a list of topics that will be covered:

What is Research Data Management?
Tri-Agency RDM Policy (Institutional Strategy, Data Management Plans, Data Deposit)
U of G RDM Institutional Strategy
Questions from audience members.

START Skills: Academic Skills
2024-09-12 13:00 - 14:30 | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Calling all new students! Want to succeed in your University Academics?
Join the START Team and the Library for the Academic Skills Workshop. In this workshop, you will learn tips and tricks for note-taking, time management, and other key academic skills. You will also get a chance to meet some of our upper-year student team and connect with other new students!
*This is a hybrid workshop. This means you can attend in person, or online!
In-person, the workshop will take place in Room 384 in the McLaughlin Library.
PLEASE REGISTER ON GRYPHLIFE

Scottish-Canadian Academic Partnership Launch Reception
2024-09-12 15:00 - 17:00 | PJ’s Restaurant in the Atrium, 42 Macdonald Street, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 1Y1, Canada
Join the Scottish Government Office in Canada and the Centre for Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph to launch the Scottish-Canadian Academic Partnership—a catalyst for cooperation between scholars in the two countries.
S-CAP is an exciting partnership between the Scottish Government Office in Canada and the Centre for Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph. S-CAP aims to:

Promote communication between scholars in Canada and Scotland with mutual research interests
Highlight their research to the wider community
Bring them into closer contact to nurture new research agendas, across a broad range of disciplines and domains.

This partnership represents an opportunity to inspire a new generation of Scots and Canadians alike through involvement in a vibrant scholarly network that promotes mutual interests and nurtures new research agendas and collaborations.
The reception will take place at the University of Guelph, PJ’s Restaurant in the Atrium, located at the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics. PJ’s is located on the north side of the University of Guelph campus inside of Macdonald Stewart Hall off of Gordon St. and College Ave E.
The launch event will also be livestreamed on Zoom for those who wish to attend online. The Zoom link will be posted on the event page in Eventbrite and emailed to all registered attendants 48 hours before the event begins.
More details and registration are available on Eventbrite.
