2019/20 seminars
18 Sep 2019 | Sonikebana: rich immersion and responsive play, can we have both?, Dr Martin Parker (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Reid School of Music) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
25 Sep 2019 | New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819-1859, Dr Charlotte Bentley (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Reid School of Music) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
2 Oct 2019 | Workshop: Organising academic events | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
9 Oct 2019 | Panel discussion: Should concerts have quotas?, Hilary Brooks (Scottish Women Inventing Music), Gavin Reid (Chief Executive, Scottish Chamber Orchestra), More speakers to be confirmed | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
16 Oct 2019 | Physical modelling audio plugins: myths, truths, and plenty of demos from our own research, Dr Michele Duccheschi (University of Edinburgh, Acoustics and Audio Group) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
30 Oct 2019 | Rapping the unknown: Mexican hip-hop, silencing, and the post-authoritarian imagination, Dr Andrew Green (University of Glasgow, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
6 Nov 2019 | Music and emotion in the brain: individual and group experiences, Dr Sujin Hong (University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Science) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
13 Nov 2019 | Panel discussion: Impacts of music on health and wellbeing – Positives, and negatives | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
20 Nov 2019 | On the Singing Hologram: Miku, Love and Labour, Prof Nick Prior (University of Edinburgh, Sociology) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
27 Nov 2019 | Ecological Listening: Sounding Environmental Noise, Dr Linda O Keeffe (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, School of Art) | Alison House, Atrium (G10) | 3.15pm
More seminar dates to follow
Previous seminar series
2018/19
17 Sep 2018 | Collecting and archiving music histories from political detention centres in Pinochet's Chile (1973-1990), Katia Chornik (University of Manchester and Surrey County Council) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
27 Sep 2018 | Representing Renaissance Rome – Beyond Anachronism in Showtime’s The Borgias, James Cook (University of Edinburgh) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
4 Oct 2018 | Working with Words – Revisions of Declamation in Fanny Hensel’s Lied Autographs, Harald Krebs (University of Victoria) | Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
11 Oct 2018 | Decolonising music education, Diva Mukherji (VP Education, EUSA), Radhika Govinda (University of Edinburgh), 皚桐 (Glasgow School of Art POC Society), chaired by Diljeet Bhachu (University of Edinburgh) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
17 Oct 2018 (Rescheduled date, time and location) | How-to session: Organising a postgraduate conference | Student Common Room, Alison House | 2pm - 4pm
18 Oct 2018 | A Scattered Heritage – Britain’s Georgian Legal Deposit Music, Karen McAulay (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
1 Nov 2018 | Anne Desler (University of Edinburgh) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
15 Nov 2018 | The Curious Case of Cluas-chiùil (‘Musical-ear’) – Evidence for Early Musical Semantics in Gaelic Scotland?, William Lamb (University of Edinburgh) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
22 Nov 2018 | Panel discussion: Teaching music history in higher education | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
29 Nov 2018 | “Music is a way of listening” – Liberal personhood and auditory labour in English music education policy, 1973-1992, Patrick Valiquet (University of Edinburgh) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
17 Jan 2019 | Fostering musical autonomy through playing by ear from recording, Maria Varvarigou (Canterbury Christ Church University) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
24 Jan 2019 | Being moved by music – A prosocial emotional response?, Jonna Vuoskoski (University of Oslo)| Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
31 Jan 2019 | Hearing Impairment: Disability, Autonomy, and Jazz Performance Practice – A Case for Lennie Tristano, Marian Jago (University of Edinburgh) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
7 Feb 2019 | Politics of Emotion and Feeling in Music | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
14 Feb 2019 | Perspectives on the nineteenth-century Bach revival, Tom Wilkinson (University of Edinburgh) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
28 Feb 2019 | Traditional Cultural Practices and HIV Interventions in South Africa, Nanette de Jong (University of Newcastle) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
7 Mar 2019 | Music, asylum-seeking and the mobile phone: accountability in a post-peace era, Rachel Beckles Willson (Royal Holloway University of London) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
14 Mar 2019 | Listening and Learning with Link: Explorations in Listening to Video Games, Tim Summers (Royal Holloway University of London) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
21 Mar 2019 | The American ‘lady composer’ in Hollywood musicals of the 1930s: Towards a history of fictitious female composers, Matthew Head (King's College London) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
28 Mar 2019 | Improvisers, instruments and nonlinear dynamics, Tom Mudd (University of Edinburgh) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
4 Apr 2019 | Conceptual (in)congruence in Marvin Hamisch’s score for "The Informant!", Dave Ireland (University of Leeds) | Lecture Room A, Alison House | 5:15pm - 6:15pm
