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.
7 DECEMBER 2026
Plenary Presentation, ‘Un(veiling) our Hidden Truths: Infanticide in 19th and 20th Century Artsong’, Artsong and Gender in Dialogue
20 NOVEMBER 2026
Keynote Lecture, ‘Against the Grain of Memory? Privacy in Biography, Music History and Archives’ Cluj, Romania
18 NOVEMBER 2026
The Well of Stars: Schubert’s Late Works
A Schubertiade Maynooth University in association with the Austrian Embassy and Kildare County Council
11 NOVEMBER 2026
Plenary Lecture, ‘The Edge of the Unknown. Privacy in Biography, Music History and Archives’, Maynooth University Research Seminars
1 OCTOBER 2026
Launch, ‘Cross Cultural Dialogues’, NYU Prague.
Published by Artefactum Czech Academy of Sciences and the University of Chicago Press.
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
9 APRIL 2026
Question and Answers Session with Graduate Students who read and responded to my biography Schubert. A Musical Wayfarer in its entirety for their Spring Semester on Schubert, College of Music and Dramatic Arts, Louisiana State University, USA.
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