Notes and noises in nature: not a swan song?

Professor Hans Slabberkoorn
University of Leiden

5.30pm, Friday 23rd January 2026

Throat-Singing: Body, Spirit, Pathways, Place

Dr Carole Pegg
University of Cambridge

5.30pm, Friday 30th January 2026

Songs We Grow By

Dr Ibrahim Baltagi
Lebanese American University

5.30pm, Friday 6th February 2026

Song in the Ancient World: Echoes of Religion and Resistance

Dr Matthew Gordley
Carlow University

5.30pm, Friday 13th February 2026

Hearing Her Voice: Women musicians in Vienna 1900

Dr Carola Darwin
Royal College of Music

5.30pm, Friday 20th February 2026

Songs of the Stars: unravelling stellar music with asteroseismology

Professor Conny Aerts
KU Leuven

5.30pm, Friday 27th February 2026

Palestinian Song in Transition: The Interplay of Tradition and Innovation, 1936-1948

Professor Issa Boulos
University of Chicago

5.30pm, Friday 6th March 2026

How Song Shapes Society, and Society Shapes Song

Richard Morrison
The Times

5.30pm, Friday 13th March 2026




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