Archived Events

Thursday 28 February 2013, 11:00 am - Ó Riada Hall, Music Building, UCC

Lecture: Christopher Smith

The Sound of Akimbo Culture: Blackface Minstrelsy and theAntebellum Sonic Imagination
Christopher J. Smith is Associate Professor, Chair of Musicology/ Ethnomusicology and Director of the Vernacular Music Center at the Texas Tech University School of Music. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and Indiana University and as a guest lecturer at University College Cork and the University of limerick. His research interests are in American and African- American Music, 20th Century Music, Irish traditional music, improvisation, music and politics, performance practice and historical performance. His current book project is Minstrelsy and the Creolization of American Culture. As an instrumentalist, he performs on Irish bouzouki, tenor banjo, button accordion, slide guitar, saz, lute, gittern, Turkish lavta and percussion.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 11:00 am - Ó Riada Hall, Music Building, UCC

Lecture: Kristin McGee

Remixing Jazz Culture: Dutch Crossover Collectivities and Hybrid Economies in the Late-Capitalist Era
Kristin McGee is Assistant Professor of Popular Music at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her research highlights the performative nature of musical cultures as constituted by the ideologies of gender, race and sexuality. Her book Some Liked it Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928–1959 considers the role of audiovisual media in the performative lives of American jazz women in the first half of the twentieth century. She has also published on the aesthetic and cultural boundaries between popular music and jazz of various historical periods.

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 6:00 pm - Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Christchurch

Perforum: Performative Romance: Places, Times and Styles in Romeo and Juliet

Prof Goran Stanivukovic is Marie Curie Research Fellow at the School of english, UCC, and a leading international authority on Shakespeare.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 6:00 pm - Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Christchurch

Killing Paris: Editing A Shakespearean Text For Performance

Dr Ger Fitzgibbon considers issues of text, direction, performance and audience as they emerged during his recent editing of Romeo and Juliet for Corcadorca Theatre Company’s production at Cork Opera House.

Thursday 29 November 2012, 11:00 am - Ó Riada Hall, Music Building, UCC

Seminar: Deirdre Ní Chonghaile

Recovering and Repatriating Traditional Songs
A graduate of UCC, Dr Deirdre ní Chonghaile is a musician, broadcaster, lecturer and writer. She currently holds a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Irish Research Council and is based at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway where she is preparing an edition of songs native to the Aran Islands. She was the NEH Keough Fellow 2011-12 at the Keough-naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of notre Dame and held the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in Washington DC.

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 6:00 pm - Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Christchurch

Perforum - Is Romeo My Cousin?

Celebrating the Year of Shakespeare
Is Romeo My Cousin? :Visual Identity in Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad
A Perforum presentation by Abbas el najab, director and stage designer. Abbas received his MA in Drama from the University of Manchester and is a regular contributor to Royal exchange Theatre, Manchester. He will examine contemporary references in the adaptation Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad by the Iraqi Theatre Company, which was presented at the RSC as part of World Shakespeare Festival.
Admission Free

Thursday 25 October 2012, 11:00 am - Ó Riada Hall, Music Building, UCC

Lecture - Fred Freeman

Songs of Irish Immigration: Robert Tannahill
Dr Fred Freeman is Honourary Fellow in English at University of Edinburgh. He is author of books on the eighteenth-century Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson, and the poet Robert Tannahill, as well as numerous articles on Scottish literature and folk music. Over the past decade he has produced over forty traditional/folk recordings, including the twelve-volume The Complete Songs of Robert Burns (Linn Records).

Thursday 18 October 2012, 12:00 pm - Ó Riada Hall, Music Building, UCC

Lecture - Dave Flynn and The Contempo String Quartet

Guest artists at the Lunchtime Concert Series on 19 October, the ConTempo String Quartet and composer/guitarist Dave Flynn discuss their recent collaboration on a project that bridges music traditions. Formed in 1995 in Bucharest, the ConTempo Quartet is celebrating its tenth anniversary as ensemble-in-residence in Galway. Irish composer and multi-genre performer Dave Flynn has collaborated widely with artists and ensembles both in Ireland and internationally.

Wednesday 21 March 2012, 6:00 pm - Granary Theatre, UCC

Perforum - Michael Robert Murphy

Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape
Michael Robert Murphy is a Fulbright Scholar-in-residence at UCC this semester. His work explores the relationship between performance, film reality and memory. Beginning with a 2009 production of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, then to a film be again (2010) based on that work, the exploration continues as he combines live performance and film, exploring the “fold” where past and present meet.
Admission free

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 6:00 pm - Granary Theatre, UCC

Perforum - Gerald Thomas

Performance Writing in the Work of London Dry Opera Co.
Gerald Thomas is an international theatre director and playwright, born in Brazil, now living in New York and London. He has collaborated with some of the iconic figures of the 20th century avant- garde, including Samuel Beckett, Julian Beck, Ellen Stewart and Philip Glass. In 1985, Thomas created London Dry Opera Co. for which
he has written and directed more than twenty-five projects. In this presentation Gerald Thomas will talk about his practice as a theatre director and playwright, and his authorship as a performance writer.
Admission Free

Thursday 22 March 2012, 11:00 am - Ó Riada Hall, Music Building, UCC

Performance Workshop: Khalwat

Flautist Carla Rees and the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet are joined by Irish composer Ian Wilson in a workshop that features performance and discussion of Wilson’s newly-composed Khalwat for quartertone flute and string quartet. ‘Khalwat’, Wilson explains, ‘is an Arabic term with a couple of meanings, but the one that interests me is the idea of a “state wherein all memories have been emptied except the remembrance of the Lord...”. What I liked in that phrase was the idea of trying to get to a state where I could forget all the music I’d written before so that I could approach this unusual combination with fresh ears’.
Admission Free

Thursday 01 March 2012, 11:00 am - Ó Riada Hall, Music Building, UCC

Lecture: Jonathan Stock

Daily Musical Life among the Bunun Aboriginals, Eastern Taiwan
Jonathan Stock was recently appointed Professor of Music at UCC. An ethnomusicologist specializing in music from China and Taiwan, Professor Stock has held the posts of Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Sheffield and Associate Dean (Research) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He has written five books and more than forty articles in peer-reviewed journals, is currently editor of the journal the world of music, and has previously served as chair of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology and board member of the International Council for Traditional Music. He was chair of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s panel for Music and the Performing Arts, of the Beyond Text special programme commissioning panel, and of the 2010 postgraduate awards competition.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 11:00 am - Ó Riada Hall, Music Building, UCC

Lecture: Karen Desmond

Glossing Music Theory: How to Make Transparent the Web of Quotations, Authorities and Allusions in Medieval Texts
Musicologist Karen Desmond recently took up a three-year lectureship at the Department of Music. A medievalist, Dr Desmond specializes in the analysis and digitization of texts from the Ars nova. She received her doctorate from New York University and has published in the Journal of Plainsong and Medieval Music and the Journal of Musicology, among others.
Admission Free

Thursday 16 February 2012, 11:00 am - Ó Riada Hall, Music Building, UCC

Lecture: Ioannis Tsioulakis

Muffled Instruments, Singing Interviews: The Dissonant Voices of Athenian Instrumentalists
Ethnomusicologist Ioannis Tsioulakis joined UCC as Lecturer in Music in January 2012. A specialist in Greek popular music and jazz, Dr Tsioulakis completed his doctoral thesis, entitled Working or Playing? Power, Aesthetics and Cosmopolitanism among Professional Musicians in Athens, at Queen’s University Belfast in 2011. His research into professional music-making in Athens considers the impact of globality on local music scenes and networks.

Thursday 09 February 2012, 11:00 am - Ó Riada Hall, Music Building, UCC

Lecture: Aleksandar Dunđerovic

Dramaturgy of Sound in the Performance Writing of Gerald Thomas
Recently appointed Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at UCC, Aleksandar Dunđerović is a theatre director who has worked over the past twenty years in Serbia, the United States, Canada, the UK, Romania, Colombia, Brazil and Iran. Before taking up his post in UCC Dr Dunđerović was Senior Lecturer in Theatre Performance at The University of Manchester. He has written extensively on contemporary theatre, focusing on directing, devising, film and multimedia.