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 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
7 March 2009
Invited Lecture, ‘Reality and Justice: On translating Goethe’s Correspondence with Zelter’, ‘Translation: Right or Wrong?’ Conference, School of Languages, Trinity College Dublin
30 October 2008
Invited Lecture, ‘Late Style and the Paradoxical Poetics of the Schubert-Berio Renderings’, St Patrick’s College, Dublin
26 June 2008
Paper read, ‘A Veil of Silence: 200 Years of Myth-Making belied by the Goethe-Zelter Letters’, 15th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, School of Music, University College Dublin.
10 May 2008
Lecture-Recital with Sylvia O’Brien (soprano) and Seóirse Bodley (piano), ‘A Hazardous Melody of Being: Seóirse Bodley’s Songs on the Poems of Micheal O’Siadhail’, Waterford Institute of Technology.
20 April 2008
Launch of Lorraine Byrne Bodley’s critical edition of A Hazardous Melody of Being: Seóirse Bodley’s Songs on the Poems of Micheal O’Siadhail, at a composer’s 75th birthday concert of the song cycles performed by Sylvia O’Brien (soprano) and Seóirse Bodley (piano) in the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin in association with the Contemporary Music Centre Dublin
21 May 2008
Pre-Performance Lecture, ‘The Vexations of Music Theatre: Anna Amalia’s Setting of Goethe’s Erwin und Elmire’, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
30 November 2007
Public Lecture and Orchestral Premiere of Lorraine Byrne Bodley’s edition of Proserpina: Goethe’s Melodrama with Music by Carl Eberwein, given by the National Symphony Orchestra and the RTE Philharmonic Choir conducted by Gerhard Markson, with German Actress, Elfi Hoppe as Proserpina in the National Concert Hall, Dublin
7 November 2007
Invited Lecture, ‘Late Style and the Paradoxical Poetics of the Schubert-Berio Renderings’, School of Music, University College Dublin
1 November 2007
Guest Lecture, ‘Schubert’s Other Unfinished Symphonies’, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin
31 March 2007
Invited Guest Lecture, ‘Die Ärgernisse des Musiktheaters: Anna Amalias Vertonung von Goethes Erwin und Elmire’, 1. Interdiziplinäres Anna Amalia and Goethe Konferenz (Unter der Schirmherrschaft von SD Prinz Michael von Sachsen-Weimar und Eisenach), Goethe Gesellschaft Weimar