The Colloquium series is the main opportunity for members of the Faculty of Music, researchers from other departments, and the general public to come together and hear papers on all aspects of music research, given by distinguished speakers from the UK and abroad. Colloquia are held on Wednesday evenings in the Recital Room of the Faculty of Music, West Road. Admission is free and all are welcome. Please arrive at 4.50pm for a 5.00pm start. Papers are followed by a discussion and a drinks reception with the speaker.
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Peter McMurray
University of Cambridge
Orality 3.0, or 'Siri, can you beatbox?'
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Philip Bullock
University of Oxford
‘I almost always know how much money I have’: Chaikovsky and the
market for classical music in nineteenth-century Russia
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Rachel Harris
SOAS, University of London
Musical border-crossing projects along the Silk Road: listening publics
and groove
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Valeria De Lucca
University of Southampton
Roman heroes as Roman patrons: constructing aristocratic identity in
seventeenth-century Rome
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Shay Loya
City University of London
Hybrid topics and allusions in Liszt’s Csárdás macabre
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Tim Summers
Royal Holloway, University of London
Having fun with phantasmagoria: opera in video games
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Matthew Head & Esther Cavett
King’s College London
Howard Skempton: narratives and reflections
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Katherine Hambridge
Durham University
Popularising the ‘popular’: ein Gedankenspiel
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Julian Johnson
Royal Holloway University of London
Debussy, La Mer, and the aesthetics of appearing
