The SMI Jazz Studies Reading Group meets once a month for informal discussion of papers, articles and book chapters that have impacted jazz studies. It is a group of graduate and early-career researchers interested in jazz studies and related socio-cultural issues, including race, gender and identity. The group, organised by Dr Damian Evans and Mr Kevin Higgins, meets in room B118, Block B, St Patrick's Campus, Dublin City University, Dublin 9. The first meeting - as an official SMI reading group - will take place on Friday 2 November at 1.00pm.
This month Cork University Press published Rebellious Ferment: A Dublin Musical Memoir and Diary by the late Brian Boydell (1917–2000), edited by his son, Barra Boydell. The book was launched by the President of the SMI, Professor Lorraine Byrne Bodley, at the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin on Thursday 6 September.
All are warmly welcome to attend the UCD Seminar in Musicology, Autumn series, September - November 2018 Room J305, Newman Building, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4
20 September 2017 at 2 pm Dr Axel Klein (Frankfurt): ‘Redefining Irish Music’
4 October 2017 at 2 pm Professor Una Hunt (DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama): ‘Thomas Moore: Drawing Room Entertainer or Rebel Songster?’
Registration is now open for the conference "Music and Musicology in the Age of Post-Truth" which will take place at University College Dublin on 7 and 8 September. You can access its programme, advice on accommodation and the registration page at https://www.ucd.ie/music/events/conferences/
Scoil na gCláirseach, the Festival of Early Irish Harp organised by the Historical Harp Society of Ireland, takes place in Kilkenny on 15-21 August 2018 at Coláiste Pobail Osraí. It includes lectures on various aspects of the early Irish harp and its repertory.
The International Bicentenary Conference - 'Clara Schumann (née Wieck) and her World' will be held at the University of Oxford on the 15th and 16th June 2019. The deadline for receipt of proposals is 1st December 2018. The Call for Papers is available to view here (Word doc.)
The Second Dublin Guitar Symposium will take place on the Grangegorman campus of DIT/TUD on 22nd - 23rd February 2019. A Call for Papers has been issued and the deadline for receipt of proposals is Friday, 19 October 2018 at 5.00pm (local time). Abstracts should be submitted to info@dublinguitarsymposium.com before the deadline. Details at the symposium website at http://www.dublinguitarsymposium.com
