Public Engagement

  • The Women in Global Music Research and Industry Network was founded in 2020 (and launched in June 2021) by Joe Davies and Yvonne Liao. It supports a range of online and in-person projects that pioneer women’s voices across geographies and through the ages.

    Recent events include the Festival Finding a Voice (April 2024) and the International Conference Women at the Piano 1848–1970 (March 2023) at the University of California, Irvine.

    Women in Global Music Website

  • Finding a Voice: Festival of Music and Words

    2024, April 6–7

    University of California, Irvine

    Grants: the Claire Trevor Society | UCI Illuminations: The Chancellor’s Arts and Culture Initiative

    Women at the Piano 1848–1970

    2023, March 16–19

    University of California, Irvine

    Grants: UCI Illuminations: The Chancellor’s Arts and Culture Initiative | UCI Building Intellectual Community, Humanities Center | Music & Letters | Royal Musical Association

    Read the Royal Musical Association conference report here.

    Clara Schumann (née Wieck) and her World

    2019, June 14–16

    University of Oxford

    Grants: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), Mellon Funding: Humanities and Identities Conferences and Workshops | Music & Letters | Royal Musical Association

    Read the Royal Musical Association conference report here.

    Analytical and Critical Reflections on Music of the Long Eighteenth Century (in honor of Professor Susan Wollenberg)

    2016, September 2

    University of Oxford

    Tercentenary Conference: C.P.E. Bach and Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Culture

    2014, November 29–30

    University of Oxford (twinned with “Sensation and Sensibility at the Keyboard in the Late Eighteenth Century”, Cornell University)

    Schubert as Dramatist

    2014, October 24

    University of Oxford, in association with the Oxford Lieder Festival (“The Schubert Project”).

  • The Mendelssohn Network: Pre-AMS Conference

    2024, November 13–14

    University of Chicago

    Dame Ethel Smyth: Connections, Culture, and Context

    2024, July 12–13

    Dublin City University

    The Mendelssohn Network: Pre-AMS Conference

    2023, November 8–9

    University of Denver

    18th Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland

    2020, October 29–31

    University College Dublin

  • *From the last five years

    Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Chicago

    2024, November 14–17

    “At the Intersection of Loss and Renewal: Women, Widowhood, and Piano Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century”

    Women in Music: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

    2024, March 9

    “Women, Widowhood, and Piano Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century”

    Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, New Orleans

    2022, November 10–13

    “19th-Century Women Pianists: Multiplicity, Agency, and Self-Fashioning”

    Musical Women in Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century, Royal Northern College of Music

    2020, February 24–26

    Panel Convenor, “Separate Spheres Revisited”

    56th Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London

    2020, September 8–10

    “Lives and Afterlives: Rethinking Clara Schumann”

    Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Boston

    2019, October 31–November 3

    Panel Convenor, “New Perspectives on Clara Schumann’s Lieder and Instrumental Music”

    Pre-AMS Conference, France: Musiques, Cultures 1789–1918, Boston

    2019, October 30–31

    Roundtable respondent, “Why Does the Nineteenth-Century Composer Need ‘Rethinking’?”

    Schubert am Klavier (invited paper), University of Tübingen

    2019, November 14–16

    “Hearing the Gothic in Schubert’s Piano Music”

    17th Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Maynooth University

    2019, June 28–30

    “Franz Schubert, Death, and the Gothic”

  • 30th West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, University of California, Irvine

    2022, May 27–28

    “Canonic Upheavals: Clara Schumann Then and Now”

  • Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg (2023)

    Maynooth University (2022)

    Catholic University of America, Washington DC (2022)

    University of California, Irvine (2021)

    University of Liège (2019)

  • Music & Employability, Industry Panel, Maynooth University

    2024, April 24

    Careers Forum, Annual Postgraduate Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland

    2024, January 12–13

    2020, January 17–18

  • Chair: Schubert Institute United Kingdom (2024–27)

    Committee Member: Schubert Institute United Kingdom (2019–)

    Council Member: Society for Musicology in Ireland (2019–21)

    Athena SWAN Self-Assessment Team, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford (2018–20)

    Committee Member: Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Studies Oxford Network (2013–16)