News announcements (to March 2019)

  • 08 Nov
    2018

    Irish Research Council-Harrison Medal, 2018

    We are pleased to announce that Professor Jim Samson has been awarded the Irish Research Council-Harrison Medal for 2018. The award ceremony and lecture will take place in Dublin on Thursday 28 March 2019 at 6 pm. The venue will be confirmed in due course. Professor Samson, who will deliver a lecture entitled 'Who needs a passport? Music in South East Europe', is Emeritus Professor of Music at Royal Holloway University of London.

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  • 26 Oct
    2018

    Conference, Society for Music Education in Ireland, 2-3 November 2018

    The eighth annual conference of the Society for Music Education in Ireland (SMEI), in association with the Royal Irish Academy of Music, takes place on 2-3 November 2018 at the RIAM, Westland Row, Dublin 2.

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  • 26 Oct
    2018

    RIAM Guest Lectures, 2018-19

    The Royal Irish Academy of Music has announced its series of guest lectures for this academic year: listed below.  All take place from 1 pm to 2 pm in the Recital Room, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Westland Row, Dublin 2. Admission is free.

    Wednesday, 24 October 2018, Bryce Morrison: 'Eileen Joyce: a celebration and a cautionary tale'.

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  • 22 Oct
    2018

    Symposium: women in popular and traditional music in Ireland, 23 November 2018

    The Department of Creative Arts, Media & Music at Dundalk Institute of Technology, in association with Sounding the Feminists and the Centre for Creative Arts Research, will host a one-day symposium on women in popular and traditional music in Ireland on Friday 23 November 2018, bringing together scholars and community activists engaged in work to address gender imbalance in both the music industry and academia. For further details, see soundingthefeministssymposium.home.blog.

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  • 22 Oct
    2018

    SMI Jazz Studies Reading Group

    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.

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  • 22 Sep
    2018

    Brian Boydell, Rebellious Ferment: A Dublin Musical Memoir and Diary (2018)

    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.

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  • 19 Sep
    2018

    UCD Seminar in Musicology, Autumn series

    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?’

    18 October 2017 at 2 pm

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  • 20 Aug
    2018

    Call for Papers: SMI/ICTM postgraduate student conference, 10-11 January 2019

    The Call for Papers for the SMI /ICTM student conference is now available to view 

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  • 14 Aug
    2018

    Registration open: Conference, 'Music and Musicology in the Age of Post-Truth' (7-8 September)

    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/

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  • 01 Aug
    2018

    Scoil na gCláirseach, Festival of Early Irish Harp

    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.

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