Conferences & Public Speaking

2025

  • Biographical Bias: Recontextualising Ethel Smyth’s Recollections of Brahms, SMI Plenary Conference, University College Dublin, 19–21 June

2023

  • Unearthing Ethel Smyth’s The Song of Love, Op. 8 (1888), SMI Plenary Conference, TU Dublin, 8–10 June

2022

  • Pre-concert talk on Ethel Smyth and her Mass in D for The Tailleferre Ensemble and Stowmarket Chorale, 19 March

2021

  • ‘1910’: Ethel Smyth’s Unsung Suffrage Song, Joint SMI/ICTM-IE Plenary Conference, Trinity College Dublin, 27–30 May
  • Autobiographical Approaches to Ethel Smyth’s Vocal Works (Panel), The Third International Conference on Women’s Work in Music, Bangor University, 1–3 September
  • Meet and Greet: Women’s Networking Strategies in Twentieth-Century Ireland and England (Panel), 57th Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association, Newcastle University, 14–16 September

2020

  • Transfiguring Earthly Sorrow: Brahms’s Begräbnisgesang (1861), BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference, The Open University, 9–11 January
  • Shoulder to Shoulder with the Suffragettes: Dame Ethel Smyth and ‘The March of the Women’, ICTM/SMI Postgraduate Plenary, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, 17–18 January
  • A Song with its Story: Dame Ethel Smyth and ‘The March of the Women’, Dublin City University Seminar Series, 10 February
  • Shoulder to Shoulder with the Suffragettes: Dame Ethel Smyth and ‘The March of the Women’, Musical Women in Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century, Royal Northern College of Music, 24–26 February
  • Dreaming of the Emerald Isle: Ethel Smyth’s Irish Influences, Joint SMI/ICTM-IE Plenary Conference, University College Dublin, 29–31 October
  • Renunciation and Redemption: Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D, ‘Women Are Not Born to Compose’, Female Musical Works from 1750 to 1950, 27–29 November

Conference Organisation

Conference Co-Chair

  • Joint SMI/ICTM-IE Postgraduate Plenary Conference
    • Maynooth University, 22 January 2021
    • Dublin City University, 14–15 January 2022
  • Dame Ethel Smyth: Connections, Culture, and Context, Dublin City University, 12–13 July 2024.

Committee Member

  • Joint SMI/ICTM-IE Postgraduate Plenary Conference
    • University College Dublin, 20–21 January 2023
    • Maynooth University, 12-13 January 2024
  • Music for Stage and Screen: Symposium Celebrating the SMI at 20, National Opera House, Wexford, 10–11 March 2023
  • The 31st European Association for Music in Schools Conference, Technological University Dublin, 12–15 June 2024