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.
28 June 2012
Keynote Lecture, ‘Transitions and Translations: Goethe’s Proserpina with Music by Carl Eberwein’, Comparative Literatures Association of Ireland International Conference, University College Cork
27 May 2012
Invited Lecture, ‘Auf der Spur einer verlorenen Welt: Über Goethes musikalische Dialoge mit Zelter’, Goethe-Gesellschaft Ludwigsburg, Germany
19 May 2012
Invited Lecture, ‘Durch Schweigen verschleiert: Über Goethes musikalische Dialoge mit Zelter, Goethe-Gesellschaft Kassel, Germany
20 April 2012
Opening Lecture, ‘Goethe and the Allure of Music’, International and Interdisciplinary Conference, Music in Goethe’s Faust: Goethe’s Faust in Music, NUI Maynooth
19 April 2012
Invited Lecture, ‘Goethe und die Verlockung der Musik’, Goethe-Gesellschaft Weimar, Germany
7–10 April 2012
Invited Lecture, In dem Fußstapfens des Meisters: Carl Friedrich Zelter, Protégé von Fasch, Internationale Wissenschaftliche Konferenz, ‘Fasch Vater und Sohn’, zu den 11. Internationalen Fasch-Festtagen 2011 in Anhalt-Zerbst, Germany
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