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.
4 April 2012
Invited Lecture, ‘Why Musicology Matters’ in: Musicology in Ireland: A Symposium, UCD Humanities Institute
25 January 2012
Invited Lecture, ‘A Vanished World Revisited: On Goethe’s Musical Dialogues with Zelter’, Department of Music, University of Durham, UK
8 December 2010
DAAD Scholar in Residence Lecture: J.F.Reichardt-J.W. Goethe Briefwechsel, University of Leipzig
24 November 2010
Guest Lecture, ‘Striking the Right Note: Translating Music for Page and Stage’, Research Centre for Translation and Textual Studies, School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University. This lecture is part of the celebrations marking the 30-year anniversary of the foundation of the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University.
20 October 2010
Guest Lecture, ‘A Veil of Silence: On Goethe’s Musical Dialogues with Zelter’, Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, Queen Mary, University of London.
11–14 July 2010
Paper read, ‘Swaying on hinges of our everyday’: On Seóirse Bodley’s O’Siadhail Settings’, International Conference on Irish Music and Musicians, University of Durham, UK
5 & 11 June 2010
Two invited public pre-performance lectures, ‘Eberweins Vertonung von Goethes Proserpina’ at the German premiere of Lorraine Byrne Bodley’s edition of Goethe’s Proserpina, performed by the Thüringer Symphoniker Orchestra on 4 June 2010 in the Rudolstädter Heidecksburg, with a repeat performance on 10 June in the Saalfelder Schlosskapelle, Germany
30 March 2010
Lecture at the invitation of the Irish Ambassador to Germany, ‘Gegenwart und Führung: Nachdenken über Goethes Freundschaft mit Felix Mendelssohn’. This talk was the Irish Embassy’s Inaugural lecture at the Mendelssohn Haus, Jägerstrasse, Berlin, Germany
4 December 2009
Author’s Address and Launch of Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Goethe and Zelter: Musical Dialogues by Professor Nicholas Boyle (Schroeder Professor of German and President of Magdalene College Cambridge), in the Dublin Residence of the German Ambassador to Ireland, Herr Busso von Alvensleben, financially supported by Goethe-Institut Dublin
13 November 2009
Invited Lecture, In the Chains of Convention?: Eberwein’s Setting of Goethe’s Proserpina, Guildhall School of Music, London. Performance of Proserpina with Lorraine Byrne Bodley’s piano reduction, Proserpina: Goethe’s Melodrama with Music by Carl Eberwein
4 November 2009
Invited Lecture, ‘Open Letters? On Goethe’s Correspondence with Zelter’, Modern Languages Research Seminar, Faculty of Arts, NUI Maynooth
9–12 July 2009
Paper read, ‘Crossing the Threshold: Mendelssohn’s Final Encounter with Goethe’, SMI/RMA Conference, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin
27–29 March 2009
Guest Lecture, ‘Lux Perpetua: Goethe’s Presence in Mendelssohn’s Journeyman Years’, New College Oxford
19 March 2009
Invited Lecture, 'The rich harvest of the outer world and the inner life of my garden hermitage: Goethe's Musical Dialogues with Zelter', University of Alberta, Canada
18 March 2009
Invited Lecture, ‘In search of Schubert’s Gretchen’, Department of Music, Luther College, University of Regina, Canada
16 March 2009
Invited Lecture, ‘The Visionary Daring of Goethe’s Proserpina’, University of Regina, Canada