John Bird Research Seminar Series
The School of Music’s John Bird seminars cover a range of topics from leading musicologists, educationalists, and music practitioners.
All talks take place at 16:30 on Wednesdays in the Boyd Lecture Theatre, School of Music, and are also available online (please contact Huw Thomas at ThomasH6@cardiff.ac.uk for further details).
Seminars 2023-24
Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
Wednesday 11 October | Dr David Beard (Cardiff University) | ‘Elective Affinities’: Found Objects, Musical Repurposing, and Concealed Meanings in Music by Judith Weir |
Wednesday 25 October | Gwenno Saunders | The Creative Toolbox |
Wednesday 15 November | Dr Steven Berryman (King’s College London/Chartered College of Teaching) | Can We Really Plan Nationally for Music Education? |
Wednesday 22 November | Professor Gareth Schott (University of Waikato) and Alroy Walker (Ngāti Korokī-Kahukura, Te Pūkenga ki Kirikiriroa – New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology) | Waiata Anthems: How Aotearoa (New Zealand) Popular and Contemporary Music is Addressing Generational Trauma and Revitalising Te Reo Māori (the Māori language) |
Wednesday 29 November | Dr Samantha Ege (University of Southampton) | Undine Smith Moore’s Soweto: A Cartography of Racial Terror, Rage, and Remembrance |
Wednesday 13 December | Dr Robert Fokkens (Cardiff University) | Making Opera in Liminal Spaces, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Boulez’s Bombs |
Wednesday 31 January | Dr Lindsay Carter (Cardiff University) | Tormented by Pigeons: music for sad comedy in the Zbigniew Preisner–Krzysztof Kieślowski collaborations |
Wednesday 7 February | Professor Richard Causton (University of Cambridge) | Composing with Electromagnets: Composer Richard Causton Talks About his Recent Work at IRCAM |
Wednesday 21 February | Dr Caroline Rae (Cardiff University), with Charles Bodman Whittaker | The Cinq églogues in Context: A Microcosm of Jolivet’s Late Style |
Wednesday 17 April | Professor Benjamin Walton (University of Cambridge) | Alternative Histories of Nineteenth-Century Opera |
Wednesday 1 May | Professor Rachel Harris (SOAS, London) | Music, tourism, and colonial desire: the case of the ‘Xinjiang Dance’ Craze |