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John Bird Research Seminar Series

The School of Music’s John Bird seminars cover a range of topics from leading musicologists, educationalists, and music practitioners.

All talks take place at 16:30 on Wednesdays in the Boyd Lecture Theatre, School of Music, and are also available online (please contact Huw Thomas at ThomasH6@cardiff.ac.uk for further details).

Seminars 2024-25

Date

Speaker

Title

Wednesday 16 October

Zoë Smith (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama)

Opening up the Archives: A Performer-Researcher’s Discoveries in Welsh Piano Music

Wednesday 13 November

Dr Daniel Bickerton (Cardiff University)

Handling Inclusion Confusion: Reflections from a Teaching and Scholarship Sabbatical

Wednesday 20 November

Dr Henry Morgan (Goldsmiths, University of London)

TikTok as a Technology of the Self: Inter-platform Relationships and Music Discovery

Wednesday 27 November

Professor Helen Julia Minors (York St John University)

Reflections on the Benefits of Music Networks: Women's Revolutions Per Minute, EDI Music Studies and Women's Musical Leadership Online Network

Wednesday 11 December

Dr María Batlle (Cardiff University)

Women’s Music Cultures in the Andean Southern Cone