Conferences & Public Speaking

2023

  • Music for Stage and Screen: Symposium Celebrating the SMI at 20, National Opera House, Wexford, 10–11 March (Organising Committee)

2022

  • Joint SMI/ICTM-IE Postgraduate Plenary Conference, Dublin City University, 14–15 January (Organising Committee Co-Chair)
  • Pre-concert talk on Ethel Smyth and her Mass in D for The Tailleferre Ensemble and Stowmarket Chorale, 19 March

2021

  • Joint SMI/ICTM-IE Postgraduate Plenary Conference, Maynooth University, 22 January (Organising Committee Co-Chair)
  • ‘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 Member), 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 Member), 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