Conferences
The Department regularly hosts significant research events such as:
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the Fifth Biennial International Conference on Music in Nineteenth Century Britain (July 2005, keynote speaker: R. Larry Todd)
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Third Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music – attended by over 150 delegates from around the world - was held at the University in June 2003 (keynote speakers: Georgine Born and Louis Andriessen)
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the one-day RMA Conference on the music of Samuel Wesley was organised by Prof. Philip Olleson in December 2003
Our graduate students have also arranged their own research events. In 2000, a research student's work on Janácek sources formed the focal point of a one-day Janácek conference, and in May 2007 the Graduates hosted a Study Day for the RMA, entitled Music and (Con)text: Interdisciplinary Challenges (keynote speaker: Ben Walton, Jesus College, Cambridge).
Upcoming conferences
Opera as Spectacle Workshop/Symposium
Institute of Musical Research, Russell Square, London
25 - 26 June 2012
This is advance notice of a Workshop/Symposium to be held a the Institute of Medical Research, Russell Square, London in June 2012. Further information.
Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference 2012
8 - 11 July 2012
In 2012 Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference will be celebrating its 40th birthday with a return to the venue of the first ever Med Ren, held at Nottingham in 1972. More information
Challenging Musical Ontologies: An RMA Study Day
Friday 23 November 2012
This RMA Study Day seeks to engage with conflicting yet complimentary dialogues regarding the possibility (or even non-possibility) of an ontology of music. Call for papers
Benjamin Britten on Stage and Screen - Centenary Conference
5 - 7 July 2013
To celebrate Britten’s centenary year, this international conference focuses on the composer’s work in a variety of genres for stage and screen. More information
Recent conferences
Red Strains: Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc after 1945
The British Academy, London
Thursday 13 January - Saturday 15 January 2011
This is advance notice of an international conference to be held at the British Academy in London in January 2011, in conjunction with the University of Nottingham. More information.
Music and Philosophy
*New venue* - King's College, London
Friday 1 July - Saturday 2 July 2011
This is advance notice of an international conference to be held at King's College, London in July 2011, in conjunction with the British Society of Aesthetics, the Institute of Musical Research and the University of Nottingham. Further information.
Correspondances: exchanges and tensions between art, theatre and opera in France, c.1750-1850
National Gallery
Friday, 26 March - Saturday 27 March
This conference will explore a rich field of interdisciplinary research, that of the relations between art, theatre and opera in France from the later 18C to the mid 19C. More information.
Royal Music Association Study Day
Image, Music, Identity: Constructing and Experiencing Identities through Music within Visual Culture
Date: 6 June 2009, University of Nottingham
Keynotes: Charlotte Demille (Courtauld Institute of Art), Danae Stefanou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Contact: Tim Shephard