EVENTS
I have given over 150 international guest lectures and keynote addresses (in German and in English) in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the Nederlands, Russia, Scotland, USA, UK. For a comprehensive guide, including my scholarly articles and essays in edited works, please see my CV. Here, though, is a list of my keynote and major public lectures.
31 August 2026
‘The Edge of the Unknown: Privacy in Biography, Music History and Archives’
Keynote Lecture, SMI-RMA-EADH Annual Conference, Society for Musicology in Ireland, Royal Music Association and European Association for Dance History, SARC, Queens University Belfast
19 November 2025
A Schubertiad curated by Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Dearbhla Collins to launch Dublin Song Series 2026, hosted by Ambassador Melitta Schubert, Austrian Embassy Dublin
25 September 2025
‘Significant Friendships in Schubert’s Life and Art’, Queen's University Belfast Research Seminars
11 September 2025
Panel Discussion of From the Ruins of the Enlightenment. Beethoven and Schubert (Chicago University Press, 2023) organized by the Schubert Research Centre, Austrian Academy of Sciences: Prof. Lorraine Byrne Bodley (Respondent, Maynooth University), Prof. Christopher Gibbs (Panel Chair, Bard College), Prof. Richard Kramer (Author, CUNY) and Prof. Birgit Lodes (Respondent, University of Vienna)
18 June 2025
Panel Address ‘Promoting the Case for Historical Musicology and Analysis’ with John Cunningham; Nicole Grimes, Julian Horton; and Anne Hyland, A Symposium in Honor of Harry White, School of Music, University College Dublin
11 February 2025
Panel Discussion of Schubert’s String Quartets (Cambridge University Press, 2023) organized by the Schubert Research Centre, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna: Prof. Lorraine Byrne Bodley (Panel Chair, Maynooth University), Dr Anne Hyland (Author, University of Manchester), Prof. Steven Vande Moortele (Respondent, University of Toronto) and Prof. Marcus Böggeman (Respondent, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien).
19 November 2024
Schubert's Todestag, Austrian Ambassador to Ireland, Melitta Schubert, hosts A November Remembrance of Franz Schubert and Seóirse Bodley: Prof. Julian Horton (Durham University), Prof. Lorraine Byrne Bodley MRIA (Maynooth University), Dr Sylvia O'Brien (soprano) and Dr David Adams (piano)
31 January 2024
Online Panel Discussion of Schubert. A Musical Wayfarer (Yale University Press, 2023) organised by the Schubert Research Centre, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna and the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. Panel members include Prof. Lorraine Byrne Bodley (Maynooth University), Prof. Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl (University of Salzburg and Director of Schubert Research Centre, ÖAW), Prof. Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen (Zurich University) and Prof Susan Youens (University of Notre Dame)
Watch an extract from the Panel Discussion in the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin in colloboration with the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 31 January 2024: Watch the Online Panel Discussion
31 October 2023
New York Launch and Panel Discussion of Schubert. A Musical Wayfarer (Yale University Press, 2023), New York University, Prof. Michael Beckermann, Prof. Christopher Gibbs, Prof Susan Youens
19 October 2023
'A Garland for Seóirse, Citation for the Conferring of an Honorary D Litt Degree on my husband, Seóirse Bodley', National University of Ireland Merrion Square Dublin
4 May 2023
Larchet Memorial Lecture, ’10 Lessons Learnt Writing a Schubert Biography, UCD School of Music
12 November 2021
‘Richard Festinger’s Icarus in Flight’ An Extraordinary Concert for Climate Action with Live Performances by Yury Revich and James Cottriall from Vienna and Telegraph Quartet, San Francisco, Climate Music Project Panel, Dargan Theatre Trinity College Dublin
24 September 2021
‘Schubert and The Makings of Biography’, Schubert Research Centre, Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna
29 May 2020
Presidential Address, ‘In Honour of Michael Beckerman NYU), IRC-Harrison Medal, Society for Musicology in Ireland
4–16 November 2019
Invited Lecture, ‘Schubert and Friendship’, Schubert am Klavier Conference, Neue Schubert Ausgabe, University of Tübingen
19 October 2019
Oxford Lieder Study Day. Two illustrated Lectures (i) ‘Unresting Death: On Schubert’s Final Years’ with Dame Imogen Cooper performing Schubert’s Sonata in A Major
(ii) ‘Death’s Presence in Schubert’s Final Songs’ with James Gilchrist (tenor) and Anna Tilbrook (piano)