Seminar Archive

2025

February

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  In Search of Home, Sweet Home, c. 1871

  13 February 2025, 13:00 - 15:00

  Few songs of the British nineteenth century have had the staying power of ‘Home, Sweet Home’. With music by Henry Bishop and words by John Howard Payne, it first appeared in Clari; or, the Maid of Milan (1823) at London’s Covent Garden. The song remained in the repertory well into...

January

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  "The Boston I Knew is Lying on the Ground:" Music, Memory, and Redevelopment in Boston

  30 January 2025, 13:00 - 15:00

  Though conceived and recorded as novelty, Francis Whiting Hatch's 1965 LP Urban Redevelopment and other Swan Songs of Old Boston (Bert & I Records) captured a transitional moment - at the ground level - for one of America's oldest and most contested cities. Hatch came from a prosperous Boston family,...

2024

December

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  What are we going to do with our health once we've recovered it?

  05 December 2024, 13:00

  In this Lecture/Workshop Dr Dave Camlin, performer, composer, teacher, Community Musician, and researcher will explore the idea of music making (muiscing) as a resource for imagining possible futures.  Through presentation, discussion and practical examples, Dave will highlight the value of musicing as a resource for human evolution and sustainable development, through the...

November

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  Music, mental health and wellbeing research seminar

  21 November 2024, 13:00 - 15:00

  Music’s therapeutic benefits are well established for musicians and audiences alike. In recent years however, an emergent thread of research is revealing the severity of the negative mental and physical health impacts pursuing a career in music can take. Studies such as Can Music Make You Sick? (Gross and Musgrave,...

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  Ecologies of Pain

  07 November 2024, 13:00 - 15:00

  In this performance lecture artist-researcher Sarah Hopfinger will discuss and reflect on her ongoing project Ecologies of Pain, which is a performance research project that creatively explores the insights between living with chronic pain and living with, and relating to, wider ecological pain. Living and working with chronic pain can...

October

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  Department of Music Postgraduate Student Research Seminar

  24 October 2024, 13:00 - 15:00

  Join us to hear from three of our current PhD students about their research.

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  In conversation with Kate Molleson

  10 October 2024, 13:00 - 15:00

  Join leading broadcaster and music journalist Kate Molleson and Lecturer in Music, Dr Aaron McGregor who will be in conversation to explore the roots behind how we separate and define musical genres today, and how this affects the status ascribed to certain types of music. Taking the intersection and separation...

September

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  Dr. Jane Stanley: Hauntological aspects of my music.

  26 September 2024, 13:00 - 15:00

  This talk explores aspects of my creative process and output, paying particular attention to the textural, gestural and formal dimensions of my music. I will explain how I have recently begun to reflect upon my pieces and working method through a conceptual lens of hauntology, as well as accounting for...

April

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  Drilling down: audiovisual aesthetics and horror in recent films and television series located on offshore oil rigs

  25 April 2024, 13:00 - 15:00

  Dr Annette Davison discusses Petrocapitalism in the media.

March

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  Dr. Jane Stanley: Hauntological aspects of my music

  21 March 2024, 13:00 - 15:00

  This talk explores aspects of my creative process and output, paying particular attention to the textural, gestural and formal dimensions of my music. I will explain how I have recently begun to reflect upon my pieces and working method through a conceptual lens of hauntology, as well as accounting for...