Collaborations
I collaborate with others to convene events such as conferences, panels, and networking meet ups. I do this across music and related disciplinary areas, such as philosophy and cultural theory.
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London Critical
London Critical is a registered charity. We aim to advance education for the public benefit through facilitating inter- and multi-disciplinary activities that progress critical approaches to research.
I am a founding member and charity Trustee, a member of London Conference in Critical Thought’s organising collective, and on the Editorial Board of the London Journal in Critical Thought.
RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group
I am the Events Coordinator for the Royal Musical Association’s Music and Philosophy Study Group. I organise conferences and other events.
The study group aims to provide a distinctive, long-term forum for those with an interest in music and philosophy, opening spaces to further work between these disciplines.
Music’s Contemporary Modernisms
With Dr Christine Dysers, this ongoing project (2024-) asks what musical modernism means today and what — if anything — ideas such as metamodernism and altermodernism can bring to better understanding contemporary music.
Music and Materialisms Research Network
With Isabella van Elferen (Kingston) and Matthew Sergeant (Bath Spa) I coordinated the Music and Materialisms Research Network (2017-2021), facilitating networking, a conference, and publications.
Conference panels, streams, and invited talks
Conferences organised
Music and Materialisms Conference
A free one-day conference (Feb. 2019), Kingston University London.
This conference brought together speakers on the topics of music, material culture, and materialist theory.
Organised with Isabella van Elferen (Kingston) and Matthew Sergeant (Bath Spa)
Music in the Psychoanalytic Ear
IMR Research Day (May 2018), Senate House.
A number of scholars in music studies have recently drawn on psychoanalytic ideas to make sense of musical experiences and meaning. At the same time, there are long-established links between music therapy and psychoanalysis; a large number of psychoanalysts, analytic psychotherapists and others working in this ‘talking’ tradition have themselves considered what music might mean in light of their clinical practice. However, despite influencing one another, these disciplines tend to operate independently, with practitioners of each rarely directly engaging those across the disciplinary divides. Musicologists, music therapists, and psychoanalysts have talked about music, but rarely do they speak to one another about music. This IMR research day addresses the need for interdisciplinary dialogue by asking: what can we learn about music when these disciplines begin to speak and listen to one another?
Organised with Rachel Darnley-Smith (Roehampton). Financial support from the Guildhall School and Roehampton University.