DCU Musicology Research Seminars
Each semester the School hosts a research seminars in Musicology. Below are the series that have run in recent years.
Autumn Semester
29 October: Dr Barbara Dignam (Dublin City University)
Warning! This Research is Already Out of Date: Evaluating GenAI Tools and LLMs for the Teaching of Applied Stylistic Techniques
5 November: Prof. Jane Alden (Wesleyan University)
Nosing Through Notational Objects Across Time
12 November: Dr Seán Doherty (Dublin City University)
Annotations in the Francis O'Neill Collection at the University of Notre Dame
19 November: Postgraduate Research Seminars
Hamidreza Golestanisani and Michael Young
26 November: Dr Adam Behan (University of Maynooth)
Eurovision on a 'Troubled' Island, 1970–88
Spring Semester
4 March: Dr Clare Wilson (Dublin City University)
Felis Catus as Musical Apparatus: Feline Iconography, Modernist Practice, and the Sonic Construction of Subjectivity
11 March: Dublin City University Postgraduate Student Seminars
Lucia Mac Partlin and Obumneke Anyanwu
11 March: Dr Freya Jarman (Liverpool University)
High Notes, Hellish Voices
18 March: Dr Conor Power (University College Dublin)
The Modern Legacy of the Hollywood Leitmotif
25 March: Dr Nicole Grimes (Trinity College Dublin)
Staging Public Authorship: Emilie Mayer and the Social Aesthetics of Prestige
Spring Semester
12 February: Dr Linda Adams (Dublin City University)
The Maths of Music: How statistics and probability shape our listening experiences
19 February: Professor Karen Desmond (Maynooth University)
Introducing BROKENSONG: Fragmentary Manuscripts and the Reconstruction of Insular Musical Communities, c. 1150 to c. 1350
05 March: Dr Seán Doherty, Kevin Boushel and Laura Sheils (Dublin City University)
Éirí na Gréine: Perspectives on Irish Choral Music
12 March: Dublin City University Postgraduate Student Seminars
Holly Woods and Rodrigo Almonte
26 March: Dr Ailbhe Kenny (Mary Immaculate College)
Seeking Asylum, Sounding Asylum
2 April: Professor Harry White (University College Dublin)
Amongst Women: Gender, Reception History and the European Composer