Public Musicology Symposium

Published on by J. P. E. Harper-Scott

PUBLIC MUSICOLOGY INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
Organized by the Society for Musicology in Ireland

VENUE DETAILS:
The Kevin Barry Recital Room
National Concert Hall, Dublin
Wednesday 26 April 2017
Time: 08.30-18.30

This international one-day symposium on Public Musicology, organized by  the Society for Musicology in Ireland, is in accordance with the aims of that society: to nurture and highlight the role of music in education and broader society on a national and international platform. The aim of this symposium is to ask how musicology relates to the ‘public voice’, the voice of culture at large. At a time when the government is calling for a new level of connectedness between higher education and wider society, academics are under increasing pressure to address this issue of civic engagement. Additionally, as many of our doctoral graduates do not follow an academic career path, there is an urgent need to offer alternative pathways to graduate students forging a career beyond the academy.

Our eleven guest speakers will explore a diverse range of themes: careers in and beyond musicology, community-based projects, curating concerts and issues of programming, musicology in journalism, musicology and civic engagement, music theory, musicological entrepreneurship, public musicology in Ireland, public musicology projects, and musicology and the media. This symposium aims to bring together the published scholar but also the journalist, the writer of programme notes, the teacher, the radio broadcaster and any others in a position to affect the wider discourse on music. The primary objective of the symposium is to raise awareness of how music scholars, educators, music journalists and industry professionals engage with the public at large.

GUEST SPEAKERS

Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Christopher H. Gibbs

Bard College | New York

Dr Lorraine Byrne Bodley MRIA | Maynooth University | President of the Society for Musicology in Ireland
Prof. Harry White MRIA | University College Dublin
Prof. Julian Horton | Durham University
Dr Anne M. Hyland | University of Manchester
Dr Stephen Graham | Goldsmiths, University of London
Dr J. Griffith Rollefson | University College Cork
Dr Aidan Thomson | Queen’s University, Belfast
Dr Alexandra Buckle | Oxford University
Dr Melanie Marshall | University College Cork
Dr Deirdre Ní Chonghaile | NUI Galway

 

General Admission: €10
Student Tickets: FREE

Tickets are €10 which includes tea and coffee and admission to all sessions, including the keynote address by Professor Christopher Gibbs, Bard College, New York. Students attend for FREE but must register and purchase a student ticket. Please note that there will be a wine reception following the symposium: 18.30-19.15, The 1st Floor Foyer, outside The Kevin Barry Recital Room.

Please fill out the registration form, which also contains the link to purchase tickets, via the National Concert Hall Box Office. The link to the National Concert Hall Box Office is provided at the bottom of the registration form. Please click on the link to book your ticket: https://goo.gl/forms/WkCbqMRS48FaAc533

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If you have any queries in relation to the event, please contact the symposium coordinator, Barbara Strahan: Barbara.M.Strahan@nuim.ie

Funded by the Irish Research Council New Foundations scheme