Lecture Room 2, Faculty of Music, West Road


2026-02-04 17:00: What has John Cage to do with Plato? Reception theory, classical antiquity and music (Simon Goldhill (Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge))

2026-02-11 17:00: The Feminist Prince Wars: Tracing the Workings of  Music and Sex in 1980s Minneapolis (Elliot Powell (Associate Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies, University of Minnesota))

2026-02-18 13:00: Beyond Nationalism? Opera and Decoloniality in East  Central Europe (Tereza Havelkovà (Associate Professor, Charles University Prague))

2026-02-25 17:00: Argentine Tango in between China and Japan, 1910s-1940s: Transoceanic Fragments of Musical Exchange (Yuiko Asaba (Lecturer in Music, SOAS University of London))

2026-03-04 17:00: Musical Encounters and Repertory in Japan 1860–1880: Transnational flows in multicultural spaces (Thomas Cressy (George Kingsley Roth Research Fellow in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge))

2026-03-11 13:00: Theme and Variations: Listening for Classical Music in Haiti (Lauren Eldridge Stewart (Assistant Professor in Music, Washington University in St. Louis))

2026-03-18 17:00: Romanesque Song and the Abbey of Moissac, c. 1050-c.1200 (Sam Barrett (Professor of Early Medieval Music, University of Cambridge))