2024 AUTUMN TRIMESTER

25 September 2024
Professor Julian Johnson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
'Listening with Debussy'

9 October 2024
Dr Francesco Milelle González Luna (University College Dublin)
'Italian Opera and the end of the Spanish empire: sounding modernities in Mexico City between 1780 and 1830'

23 October 2024
Dr Alisha Lola Jones (University of Cambridge)
'Ultrasonic Tastemaker: A Critical Gastromusicology'

13 November 2024
Professor Miguel Mera (University of Southampton)
'Screening Rites'

27 November 2024
Professor Karen Desmond (Maynooth University)
'In Pieces: Introducing the BROKENSONG Project'

2025 SPRING TRIMESTER

29 January 2025
Dr Seán Clancy (University College Dublin)
'Implicit Trust: Collaboration in New Music'

12 February 2025
Dr Michael Fend (King's College London)
'The Turncoat Composer: Enquiries into the Lifewriting of Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)'
(cancelled)

26 February 2025
Professor Rumya S. Putcha (University of Georgia)
'The Dancer′s Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India'

26 March 2025
Professor Grainne Mulvey (TU Dublin)
'The Tyndall Effect'
(cancelled)

9 April 2025
Dr Nicole Grimes (Trinity College Dublin)
'Breaking the Symphonic Glass Ceiling: Emilie Mayer's Orchestral Concert in Berlin in the 1850s'

7 May 2025
Larchet Memorial Lecture
Professor Deborah Wong (University of California, Riverside)
'Music and Conviviality: Empathy, Repair, and Homage'

2024 SPRING TRIMESTER

25 January 2024
Anthony R. Green (Composer, Performer, Social justice artist)
'A Primer on Issues in Black Contemporary Composition'

8 February 2024
Dr Nanette Nielsen (University of Oslo)
'Enacting musical aesthetics: the embodied experience of live music'

22 February 2024
Dr Anne Hyland (University of Manchester)
'Chopin’s Suicidal Tonal Plan? The Monotonal Exposition and the Ascendency of Secondary Parameters in the Nineteenth-Century Sonata: a Lesson from the Warsaw Years'

27 February 2024
Dr Sarah Raine (University College Dublin)
'Improvising Across Boundaries: Developing a co-produced and collaborative methodology for capturing the gendered experiences of improvising musicians in Ireland'

7 March 2024
Professor Martin Stokes (King's College London)
'Abd al-Halim Bicycle: A Postcolonial Nocturne'

18 April 2024
Dr Rasika Ajotikar (Stiftung Universität Hildesheim)
'Labour, value and form in modern Indian music'

2023 AUTUMN TRIMESTER

28 September 2023
Professor Kevin Donnelly (University of Southampton)
'When is music not music?'

12 October 2023
Dr Chrysi Kyratsou (University College Dublin)
'Voice, Silence, and Noise: Sonic accounts of life in refugee reception centres'

26 October 2023
Dr Antonio Cascelli (Maynooth University)
'Drama in Musica: is an alternative narrative about its origin possible?'

16 November 2023
Dr Matthew Thomson (Merton College, University of Oxford)
'Control Issues: Music and Sexuality in Thirteenth-Century Legal, Doctrinal, and Literary Discourses'

30 November 2023
Professor Emanuele Senici (University of Rome La Sapienza)
'Dancing Divas: La sonnambula on Video in 1950s Italy'

2023 SPRING TRIMESTER

2 February 2023
Dr Kyle Kaplan (University College Dublin)
'Too Pretty for Politics: The Case of Ondine (1958)'

16 February 2023
Dr Zeynup Bulut (Queens University Belfast)
'A Case of Voice-Skin: Biosensor Performance'

2 March 2023
Dr Emily Gale (University College Cork)
'"Home Sweet Home": Sentimentality and the Politics of Domesticity in Anglo-American Pop Song'

30 March 2023
Professor Bettina Varwig (University of Cambridge)
'What a body can do: early modern musical scores as somatic scripts'

5 April 2023
UCD Arts & Humanities Annual College Lecture
Professor Jennifer Walshe (University of Oxford)
'Weird Hibernia'
Venue: UCD University Club (view map) 

13 April 2023
Professor Philip V. Bohlman (University of Chicago)
'Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano: The Cabaretesque in the Moment of Eschatology'

4 May 2023
2023 Larchet Memorial Lecture
Professor Lorraine Byrne Bodley (Maynooth University)
'10 Lessons Learnt writing a Biography about Schubert'
Venue: UCD The William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium, John Hume Building

2022 AUTUMN TRIMESTER

6 October 2022
Professor Byron Dueck (The Open University)
'Tone, Tune, and Textual Comprehensibility in Central Cameroonian Liturgical Music'

20 October 2022
Professor Thomas Irvine (University of Southampton)
'Jazz as Social Machine'

17 November 2022
Dr Catherine Haworth (University of Huddersfield)
'Queer Quality? Value, Reception, and Creative Agency in the Soundtracks of Ryan Murphy's Horror Television'

1 December 2022
Professor Harry White (University College Dublin)
'The Sovereign Ghost: Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) and the Eclipses of Cultural History'

2022 SPRING TRIMESTER

23 February 2022
Helen Lawlor (Technological University Dublin)
'Mná na hÉireann: Women and Music in Irish Harping'

2 March 2022
Cormac de Barra (University of Limerick)
'Sustaining the Harp in Ireland: The culture bearers of the early-mid twentieth century'

23 March 2022
Ríonach Uí Ógáin (University College Dublin, Professor Emerita)
'The Irish Folklore Commission'

6 April 2022
Nicholas Carolan (Irish Traditional Music Archive, Director Emeritus)
'Making an Archive of Irish Traditional Music, 1987-2022'

13 April 2022
Anne Marie O' Farrell (Royal Northern College of Music)
'From Bow to Blade: Bach's D minor Chaconne for Irish Harp'

2021 AUTUMN TRIMESTER

30 September 2021
Dr Nicolás Puyane (Royal Irish Academy of Music)
'Recomposing Liszt: Adventures in Textual Fluidity'

7 October 2021
Dr Bláithín Duggan (Dublin City University):
‘Something in the way [they sing]: Vocal Qualifiers as Expressive Devices in the Songs of The Beatles’

21 October 2021
Dr Anne Stanyon (Independent Scholar)
‘Hiding in Plain Sight, or in Search of the Lost Arthur Sullivan’

4 November 2021
Dr Eva-Maria de Oliveira Pinto (Franz Liszt Academy, Weimar)
‘When is Music a Cultural Heritage? Basic thoughts on the Pipe Organ and its Music’

11 November 2021
Professor Patrick Zuk (Durham University)
'Soviet Music and the Practice of Historical Biography'

2021 SPRING TRIMESTER
3 February 2021
Dr Joseph Mason (IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, UCD School of Music)
'Violence and Medieval Music: the jeu-parti'

17 February 2021
Dr Maddie Kavanagh-Clarke (University of Durham)
'Loosening strategies in Mendelssohn’s sonata forms: the impact of proliferation on tight-knit organisation in main themes'

3 March 2021
Dr John Millar (UCD School of Music)
'Red, White and Green: Assumed identities and Country Music politics'

31 March 2021
Dr Georgina Hughes (DKIT, Dundalk)
'Dame Evelyn Glennie: Solo Percussion performance and the issue of Gender'

14 April 2021
Dr Donal Fullam (UCD School of Music)
'Virtual Reality and the 21st Century Gesamtkunstwerk'

2020 AUTUMN TRIMESTER

8 October 2020
Dr Alexander Khalil (University College Cork)
'Present Pasts: Oral and Written Tradition in Byzantine chant'

15 October 2020
Dr Aileen Dillane (University of Limerick)
'White Nationalism, #BLM, and Irish-America: Revisiting Lord of the Dance in the Age of Trump'

5 November 2020
Dr Xenia Pestova Bennett (University of Nottingham)
'Reconstructing Bach: Karlheinz Essl’s Gold.Berg.Werk'

19 November 2020
Dr Charles Wilson (Cardiff University)
The Attali Prophesies Revisited: Elitism and Opportunity in a ‘Digital Age’ of Music'

3 December 2020
Dr Franziska Schroeder (Queen’s University Belfast)
'Distributed Listening: Network Music as Organising Ourselves as Social Networks of People'

2020 SPRING TRIMESTER

5 February 2020
Dr Sheryl Lynch (Independent Scholar)
'Sound Immigration: The Cultural Place Making of Northwest Cameroonians in Ireland'

19 February 2020
Professor Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Harvard University)
'After the Revolution: A Musical Portrait of the Ethiopian Diaspora'

26 February 2020
Dr Tony Langlois (Mary Immaculate College)
'Sacred Music and the Global Ethnoscape: Moroccan Sufism Relocated'

1 April 2020
Professor Marina Frolova Walker (University of Cambridge)
'The Curious Case of Norman Cazden, or Musical Realism Across the Cold-War Divide'

15 April 2020
Dr Tomas McAuley (University College Dublin)
'What is Music and Philosophy?'

2019 AUTUMN TRIMESTER

26 September 2019
Dr Ruth Stanley (Independent Scholar)
'The Wearin’ o’ the Green and the Black Bottom: the Evolution and Cultural Assimilation of Jazz and Jazz Dancing in Pre- and Post-partitioned Ireland'

24 October 2019
Dr Deirdre Ní Chonghaile (Independent Scholar)
'Sean-nós Song in Pennsylvania 1884-1935: The Rev. Daniel J. Murphy Collection

7 November 2019
Dr Estelle Murphy (Department of Music, Maynooth University)
'William Boyce and the Development of the Court Ode, 1750–79'

14 November 2019
Dr Monika Jurić Janjik (Academy of Music, University of Zagreb)
'Thoughts on Music by Dubrovnik Thinkers in the Renaissance'

21 November 2019
Dr Anja Bunzel (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
'What's in a Salon? Defining Nineteenth-Century Salon Culture'

2019 SPRING TRIMESTER

6 February 2019
Barbara Dignam (University College Dublin)
'On Being "Doubly Disadvantaged": Women and the Gendered Worlds of Electroacoustic Composition in Ireland'

20 February 2019
Danielle Sofer (Maynooth University)
'Code Switching in Electronic Music'

6 March 2019
Elaine Kelly (University of Edinburgh)
'Performing Diplomacy: Musical Encounters between the German Democratic Republic and the Middle East'

27 March 2019
Lonán Ó Briain (University of Nottingham)
'Sound, Technology and Citizenship in French Indochina'

10 April 2019
Laura Anderson (Maynooth University / University College Dublin)
'Sonic Snapshots of Paris: Film Music and Sound Design in Jacques Rivette’s Paris nous appartient (1961) and Chris Marker’s Le Joli mai (1963)'

2018 AUTUMN TRIMESTER

20 September 2018
Dr Axel Klein (Frankfurt)
‘Redefining Irish Music’

4 October 2018
Professor Una Hunt (DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama)
‘Thomas Moore: Drawing Room Entertainer or Rebel Songster?’

18 October 2018
Professor Lorenz Welker (University of Munich)
'The Beginnings of the Orchestra: On Instrumental Ensemble Music between the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times'

15 November 2018
Dr Jillian Rogers (University College Cork)
‘Ravel's Musical “Magic Words”: Interwar Modernism, Trauma, and Psychoanalytic Theory.’

22 November 2018
Professor Harry White (University College Dublin)
‘Redefining Music in Ireland’

2018 SPRING TRIMESTER

7 February 2018
Dr Jaime Jones (University College Dublin)
'Music and Digital Devotion in India'

21 February 2018
Dr Laura Watson (Maynooth University)
'"Every Day I Write the Book": Popular Musicians and Memoirs in the Twenty-First Century'

28 February 2018
Dr Elaine Kelly (University of Edinburgh)
'Performing Diplomacy: Musical Encounters between the German Democratic Republic and the Middle East'

7 March 2018
Dr J. Griffith Rollefson (University College Cork)
'"The Big Pill": Enlightenment Binaries and Black Musical Metaphysics'

11 April 2018
Professor Jim Samson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
'Looking for Narts: Circassians and their Homelands'

2017 AUTUMN TRIMESTER

5 October 2017
Professor John Butt (Gardiner Professor of Music, University of Glasgow)
'Psycho - Hitchcock and the Aesthetic of Absolute Music'

2 November 2017
Dr Helen Lawlor (Dundalk Institute of Technology)
'Masculine beginnings to feminine endings: a gendered discourse of the Irish harp'

9 November 2017
Professor Julian Horton (Durham University)
'Prospects for a theory of romantic form'

23 November 2017
Dr Natasha Loges (Royal College of Music, London)
'Performing society through song: the multiple meanings of poetry in Brahms’s Lieder'

30 November 2017
Professor Stanislav Tuksar (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
'Ideas on music therapy and the human condition in Dissertatio VI (1685) by Giorgio Baglivi (Dubrovnik, 1668 - Rome, 1707)'