Spring 2020
- January 17: Phil Ford, “Diviner’s Time”
- January 24: Professional Development Series “Applying for Academic Jobs at Teaching Institutions”
- January 31: Maura Sugg, “Riddle Me This: An Extension of Topic Theory to Renaissance Music”
- February 7: Ayana Smith, “Immagini funeste: The Afterlife of Operatic Ocularcentrism in Handel’s London”
- February 14: Professional Development Series “How to Prepare for Diverse Careers as a Musicologist”
- February 21: Stewart Duncan, “The Role of Music in British Diplomacy, 1934-1939: The British Council and National Identity Abroad”
- February 28: Christine E. Wisch, “Piermarini’s Harem: Fashioning the Musical Image of the Spanish Nation”
- March 6: J. Peter Burkholder, “Making Old Music New”
- March 13: Matthew Leone, “Jan Ladislav Dussek: Music’s ‘Prodigal Son’”
- March 20: Spring Break, no colloquium
- March 27: Michael Bane, “Music and Sociability in French Salons around 1700: Or, How to Compliment a Musical Friend”
- April 3: Professional Development Series “The Musicologist as an Archivist and Administrator”
- April 10: Inaugural Peter Burkholder Musicology Lecture (Ford-Crawford Hall)
Anna Maria Busse Berger (University of California, Davis), “Bruno Gutmann, the Chagga, and Jugendbewegung” - April 17: Nicolette van den Bogerd, “‘Music as a Distorted Mirror’: Memory and Trauma in Szymon Laks’s Elégie pour les villages juifs”
- April 24: Joseph Stiefel, “Processing Trauma through Concert Spirituals: Margaret Bonds’ Spiritual Suite for Piano”
- May 1: Devon Nelson, “Antiquarians, Female Harpists, and the Survival of the Bardic Tradition”
Colloquium Talks from Previous Years
