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.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Join virtually |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, 4 February 2026 | Dr Chen-Yu Lin, School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University | Following the Routes of Censorship: Taiwan, Music, and Control Across Chinese Music Worlds | Join |
| Wednesday, 11 February 2026 | Dr Alan Bilton, School of Culture and Communication, Swansea University | Cardiff University Centre for Research in Opera in Drama (CIRO) Lecture ‘Nightingales & Nightmares: The Subversive and the Supernatural in Central European Comic Opera‘ | Join |
| Wednesday, 11 March 2026 | Prof Hong DING, 洪丁 副教授, Shanghai Conservatory | Translating the Pentatonic: The Adaptation of Chinese Traditional Music for Piano and the Negotiation of Modernity | Join |
| Wednesday, 18 March 2026 | Dr Máté Cselényi, Director, Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre, Budapest | Franz Liszt’s Visit to Hungary in the 1840s and his Hungarian Rhapsodies | Join |
| Wednesday, 15 April 2026 | Dr Alessandra Palidda, Manchester University | Cardiff French Music Research (CFMR) Lecture ‘Translating and Adapting between Paris and Monza: The Case of Dalayrac’s opéras comiques at the teatro arciducale (1778-1795)’ | Join |
| Wednesday, 22 April 2026 | Dr Enrico Bertelli, Lingnan University HKSAR, Hongkong/Director, Conductive Music CIC, UK | GenAI for Non-musicians | Join |