Conferences
Term IX, August – December 2017
15-16 December
Conference – Musical Aesthetics in 19th-Century Britain (PDF, 321 KB)
Organiser: Kathy Fry
7 December
Shows of London Meeting on Middles, Media, Masses
Organisers: Flora Willson and James Grande
28 November
Shows of London Meeting on Middles, Media, Masses
Organisers: Flora Willson and James Grande
16 November
Shows of London Meeting on Middles, Media, Masses
Organisers: Flora Willson and James Grande
27-28 October
Conference – Song and the City, 1790-1840 (PDF, 89 KB) (University of Notre Dame, London Global Gateway)
Organiser: Ian Newman
9 October
Eliza Flower Study Afternoon
Organiser: Kate Bowan
10 September
Symposium – Instrumental Music in Early 19th-Century London
Organiser: Ellen Lockhart
Term VIII, January – July 2017
23-24 June
Conference – Opera and Print Culture (PDF, 119 KB)
Organisers: Christina Fuhrmann, Alison Mero
22 June
Music in London Panel “Origins and Pre-Histories”
Roger Parker, James Grande, Katherine Hambridge, Nicholas Mathew, Ben Walton
at the Music and the Middlebrow Conference (University of Notre Dame, London Global Gateway) Organisers: Christopher Chowrimootoo and Kate Guthrie
2-3 June
Conference – Music and Politics in Britain: c. 1780-1850 (PDF, 278 KB)
Organisers: David Kennerley, Oskar Cox Jensen
26 May
Mono-Poly Symposium
Organisers: Josephine McDonagh and Flora Willson
12-13 May
Conference – Sound and Sense in Britain, 1770-1840 (PDF, 2.5 MB) (Columbia University)
Organisers: James Grande and Carmel Raz
28 April
Caricature Day
Organiser: Tessa Kilgarriff
27 April
Symposium – Peacock’s Operatic Criticism
Organisers: Roger Parker and Josephine McDonagh
23 March
Shows of London Meeting on Mono-poly
Organisers: Josephine McDonagh and Flora Willson
16 March
Guest Reading Group
Carmel Raz
2 March
Shows of London Meeting on Mono-poly
Organisers: Josephine McDonagh and Flora Willson
22 February
Workshop – Rees’s Cyclopaedia
Michel Noiray
10-12 February
Conference – Weber in London: Opera and Cosmopolitanism (PDF, 1.8 MB) (Royal College of Music)
Organiser: Wiebke Thormählen
9 February
Shows of London Meeting on Mono-poly
Organisers: Josephine McDonagh and Flora Willson
27-28 January
Conference – Liberalism and Victorian Music Culture (PDF, 307 KB)
Organisers: Sarah Collins and Bennett Zon
20-21 January
Workshop – Blackface Minstrelsy
Organiser: Jonathan Hicks
19 January
Shows of London Meeting on Mono-poly
Organisers: Josephine McDonagh and Flora Willson
Term VII, August – December 2016
9-10 December
Workshop – The Opium Workshop
Organisers: Josephine McDonagh and Briony Wickes
24 November
Shows of London Meeting on Mono-poly
Organisers: Josephine McDonagh and Flora Willson
3-6 November
Music in London Special Meetings (Vancouver, American Musicological Society Conference)
Organiser: Roger Parker
Roger Parker, Wiebke Thormahlen, Gavin Williams, Katherine Hambridge, Susan Rutherford, Erin Johnson-Williams, Diane Tisdall, Fabio Morabito, Davinia Caddy, Jonathan Hicks, Flora Willson, Kathy Fry
20 October
Guest Reading Group – Local and Urban Histories
Brianna Robertson, Amélie Addison
19 October
Shows of London Meeting on Mono-poly
Organisers: Josephine McDonagh and Flora Willson
9-10 September
Conference – London Voices (1820-1840) (PDF, 320 KB)
Organisers: Susan Rutherford and Roger Parker
31 August-2 September
Conference -British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS), Cardiff
Roger Parker, Jonathan Hicks, Tessa Kilgarriff, Clare Pettitt
Term VI, January – July 2016
29–31 July
Conference – Theatre in the Regency Era, Cambridge
Oskar Cox Jensen, David Kennerley
29 July
Workshop – The Opium Connection
Organisers: Josephine McDonagh and Briony Wickes
11–13 July
Conference – 19th Biennial International Conference on 19th-Century Music, Oxford
Oskar Cox Jensen, Jonathan Hicks, James Grande
8-9 July
Conference – Germanic Enthusiasms, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes – Conflict, Transfer and Assimilation in London’s Musical Life, c. 1800-1850 (PDF, 153 KB)
Organiser: Monika Hennemann
24-25 June
Conference – The Musical Pasts Consortium I – Music and the Urban (PDF, 283 KB)
Organisers: Emma Dillon, Ziad Elmarsafy, Roger Parker and Martin Stokes
2 June
Workshop – Music and Dance in Early 19th-Century London
Davinia Caddy, Erica Buurman, Joseph Fort
27 May
Conference – Music, Medicine & Emotions, QMUL
Oskar Cox Jensen, James Grande
13 May
Workshop – Twice Round the Clock
Organiser: Tessa Kilgarriff
14-16 April
Conference – The London Stage and the 19th-Century World (Oxford)
Oskar Cox Jensen, Jonathan Hicks, Tessa Kilgarriff
12 April
Workshop – Interdisciplinary 19th-Century Studies (Oxford)
Organiser: Sally Shuttleworth
19 January
Guest reading group – Mapping London
Matthew Sangster
18 January
Guest reading group – Music in Brussels and London: A Comparative View
Tatiana Debroux, Valérie Dufour, Christopher Murray
15-16 January
Conference – Operatic Reflections and Reverberations, Britain 1800-1850 (PDF, 222 KB)
Organisers: Roberta Montemorra Marvin and Roger Parker
Term V, August – December 2015
18 December
Guest Reading Group – Seriality
Clare Pettitt
12–15 November
Conference – American Musicological Society (Louisville)
Sarah Hibberd, Jonathan Hicks
17-18 September
Practice as Research Event – Dickens’ Is She His Wife? (London)
Oskar Cox Jensen, Nicola Kirkby, Jo Robinson, Emma Whipday
Term IV, January – July 2015
16-19 July
Conference – Romantic Imprints (Cardiff)
Oskar Cox Jensen, James Grande
7 July
Conference – The 100 Days (Warwick)
Oskar Cox Jensen, Katherine Hambridge
25-26 June
Conference – Hebrew Melodies: Music and the Bible in 19th-Century Europe (PDF, 14.6 MB)
Organisers: James Grande, Brian Murray
19-20 June
Conference – Music and Realism (Birmingham)
Organisers: Ben Earle, Arman Schwartz
Sarah Hibberd, Jonathan Hicks, Heather Wiebe, Gavin WIlliams, Flora Willson
4 June
Workshop – 19th-Century Song
Organisers: Oskar Cox Jensen, Ian Newman
1-2 May
Conference – Cosmopolitanism
Sarah Collins, Dana Gooley, Wiebke Thormählen, Derek Scott, Daniel Grimley
27-28 March
Conference – Sonic Spaces: Music and Visual Culture in 19th-Century London (PDF, 51 KB) (Yale Center for British Art)
Organisers: Erin Johnson-Hill, Tim Barringer
19 March
Guest reading group – London Voices
Katrin Losleben
5 March
Guest reading group – Approaches to Ballads
David Atkinson, Vic Gammon
27 February
Guest reading group – Walking in the 18th-Century City
Clare Brant, Catharina Loeffler
14-16 January
Conference – Hearing Landscape Critically: Music, Place, and the Spaces of Sound (Harvard)
Organisers: Daniel Grimley, Jonathan Hicks, Michael Uy, Carina Venter
James Grande, Jonathan Hicks
January-March
MMus course – Music in 19th-Century London
Term III, August – December 2014
5-6 December
Conference – Grand Opéra on the Move (PDF, 185 KB)
Organisers: Sarah Hibberd, Laura Protano-Biggs
28-29 November
Conference – Charles Dibdin and his World (PDF, 1.3 MB)
Organisers: Oskar Cox Jensen, David Kennerley, Ian Newman
20 November
Reading group in collaboration with Shows of London – Street Music and Modernism
Anna Snaith
13 November
Guest reading group – Music and the Public Sphere
Rachel Johnson
17-18 October
Conference – Theatres of the Crimean War: Sound, Affect, and the Media in the Production of Wartime (PDF, 252 KB)
Organisers: Andrea Bohlman, Delia Casadei, Peter McMurray, Gavin Williams
18-19 September
Conference – Operatic Geographies (Oxford)
Organiser: Suzanne Aspden
4-6 September
Conference – Royal Musical Association (Leeds)
‘London 1800-1851: Intrusion and Importation’ panel (Oskar Cox Jensen, James Grande, Jonathan Hicks, Roger Parker)
Term II, January – July 2014
27-29 June
Conference – Music and Science in London, 1800-1851 (PDF, 132 KB)
Organiser: Sarah Hibberd
23 June
Conference – Inventing Urban Modernity
Organisers: Oskar Cox Jensen, Mary Horgan, Jo Robinson, Simon Vickery
18-21 June
Conference – 19th-Century Music (Toronto)
Oskar Cox Jensen, James Grande, Katherine Hambridge, Jonathan Hicks
12 June
Guest reading group – Salon Culture and Jenny Lind, 1846-7
Matildie Thom Wium
4 June
Guest reading group – Mozart and Rossini in London’s Theatres
Christina Fuhrmann
16 May
Guest reading group – The Gothic Revival in Art and Music
Tim Barringer
24 April
Guest reading group – The Romantic Guitar
Christopher Page, James Westbrook
27-29 March
Conference – The Melodramatic Moment, 1790-1820 (PDF, 275 KB)
Organisers: Katherine Hambridge, Jonathan Hicks
25 March
Study day – The Crimea (UNC, Chapel Hill)
Organisers: Andrea Bohlman, Delia Casadei, Peter McMurray, Gavin Williams
27 February
Guest reading group – Theatre History and Visual Culture
Jim Davis, John Stokes
20 February
Guest reading group – Performance as Research
Jacky Bratton, Gilli Bush-Bailey
13 February
Guest reading group – Melodrama (Cambridge)
James Chandler, Miranda Stanyon
16 January
Guest reading group – Melodrama
Jacky Bratton
January-March
MMus course – Music in 19th-Century London
Term I, August – December 2013
17 December
Guest reading group – Melodrama
Katherine Astbury, Devon Cox, Clare Siviter
4 December
Guest reading group – Melodrama (Warwick)
Katherine Astbury, Devon Cox, Clare Siviter
6-10 December
Pre-conference meeting – The Crimea (American Musicological Society, Pittsburgh)
Andrea Bohlman, Delia Casadei
4-6 November
Conference – Plays, Places, and Participants: Light Opera, Dance, and Theatre around 1800 (Trondheim)
‘Music in London’ session (Oskar Cox Jensen, Katherine Hambridge, Jonathan Hicks)
21 October
Discussion of James Chandler’s An Archaeology of Sympathy
Rowan Boyson, James Chandler, Josephine McDonagh, Clare Pettitt, John Stokes, James Whitehead
18-19 October
Conference – Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London (PDF, 3.2 MB)
Organisers: James Davies, Ellen Lockhart
9-13 September
Conference – Hearing Landscape Critically: Music, Place, and the Spaces of Sound (Stellenbosch)
Organisers: Daniel Grimley, Jonathan Hicks, Stephanus Muller, Michael Uy, Carina Venter
‘Music in London’ panel (Roger Parker, Gavin Williams, Flora Willson)
Visiting Scholars
Term I, August – December 2013
James Davies (Berkeley); Sarah Hibberd (Nottingham); Erin Johnson-Hill (Yale); Ellen Lockhart (Princeton); Wiebke Thormählen (Royal College of Music)
Term II, January – July 2014
Sarah Hibberd (Nottingham); David Kennerley (Oxford); Erin Johnson-Hill (Yale); Ian Newman (Notre Dame); Laura Protano-Biggs (Cambridge); Wiebke Thormählen (Royal College of Music)
Term III, August – December 2014
Sarah Hibberd (Nottingham); David Kennerley (Oxford); Erin Johnson-Hill (Yale); Ian Newman (Notre Dame); Laura Protano-Biggs (Nottingham); Wiebke Thormählen (Royal College of Music)
Term IV, January – July 2015
Anselm Gerhard (Bern); Erin Johnson-Hill (Yale); Ian Newman (Notre Dame); Laura Protano-Biggs (Nottingham); Wiebke Thormählen (Royal College of Music); Valeria Lucentini (Bern)
Term V, August – December 2015
Tessa Kilgarriff (Bristol/National Portrait Gallery); Matildie Thom Wium (Bloemfontein)
Term VI, January – July 2016
David Kennerley (Oxford); Tessa Kilgarriff (Bristol/National Portrait Gallery); Roberta Montemorra Marvin (Ohio); Clare Pettitt (King’s College London); Davinia Caddy (Auckland)
Term VII, August – December 2016
Phyllis Weliver (Saint Louis)
Term VIII, January – July 2017
Willemien Froneman (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa); Chinua Thelwell (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia); Michel Noiray (CNRS, Paris); Laura Protano-Biggs (Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore); Carmel Raz (Columbia, New York)
Term IX, August – December 2017
Davinia Caddy (Auckland); Katie Barclay (Adelaide); Ellen Lockhart (Toronto); Julia Lockhart (British Columbia); Cecilia Livingston (Toronto); Valentina Anzani (Bologna); Kate Bowan (ANU); Clare Midgley (Sheffield Hallam); Paul Pickering (ANU)
Term X, January – April 2018
Valentina Anzani (Bologna); James Davies (Berkeley); Matildie Thom Wium (Bloemfontein)