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.
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)
24 November 2018
‘Why Musicology Matters?’ Presidential Address for Society for Musicology in Ireland Panel, KVNM Symposium Musicological Societies as Intermediaries between Society, Musical Life and Academia
15 August 2017
Public Lecture, ‘Late Works or Last Works? On Schubert’s Final Years’, Kilkenny International Arts Festival on Schubert’s Late Works: Schubert: Dreaming the Sublime