Barwick Colloquia
Barwick Colloquia
Every year the graduate students and faculty invite visit a number of speakers to the department to share some of their most recent work. It is a wonderful opportunity for us to meet scholars within and beyond our specific sub-fields. If you're interested in attending any of this year's talks, please join us in the Davison Room in the Music Library on the dates given at 3:15pm (unless otherwise noted).
We are proud to announce our Barwick Colloquia speakers for 2026–27:
October 20th, 2026: Roger Moseley (Cornell University)
October 27th, 2026: George E. Lewis (Columbia University)
November 17th, 2026: Julia Byl (University of Alberta)
April 27th, 2027: Daphne A. Brooks (Yale University)
TBA: The Otolith Group
2025–26
Jennifer Walshe: "MARS: Techno-capitalism, pronatalism, AI & Opera"
Kengchakaj Kengkarnka: "Lulled into a dreamy sleep from which there will be no waking up (ถูกกล่อมให้เพ้อละเมอหลับใหลไปเสียแล้วอย่างไม่มีวันตื่น)"
Jairo Moreno: "Acoustic Perdurance: Pankararu Soundings, Hyperhistory, and the Question of Temporal Frames"
Juan Bermúdez: "La Pilla: A Microhistory of Living, Aging, and Performing towards a Queer Mexican Utopia"
Jessica Bissett Perea: "Listening with and through x̌əč̓ [heart] to the Healing Heart of the First Peoples of This Land"
2024–25
Daphne Leong: "A Metric Puzzle in Sibelius’s Violin Concerto" with special guest Ken Hamao, violin.
Eleni Ikoniadou: "Voice Studies"
Victoria Cheah: "Unlike last month but like years ago and next July: repetition, restraint, and intimacies"
Olivia Bloechl: "Chanter la guerre during the Seven Years War in North America"
Derrick Skye "Woven Resonances: Transcultural Music, Interdisciplinary Innovation, and the Role of A.I. in Musical Sustainability"
E. Gabriel Dattatreyan "Studio Collabos: Musical intimacies in Afro-Asian Delhi"
Stephan Pennington "Inconvenient Voices, Inconvenient Identities: Black Trans Revue Girls, Hookers, and Drag Queens of the 1970s"
2023–24
Ana R. Alonso-Minutti: "A Performative Cage: Mario Lavista, John Cage, and the (Im)possibilities of Silence"
Erin Gee: "The Mouthpiece Series"
A.D. Carson: "Being Illicit: Hip Hop, Academia, & Dope"
Charmaine Lee: "Building A Personal Language"
2022–23
Jing Jing Luo: "Ashima: My Life, and Opera"
Vivian Luong: "Telling Stories, Building Worlds: On the Worldings in Musical Agency"
Anna Christine Schultz: "Of Magic Lanterns and Kirttan Bands: Between Spectacle and Event in Colonial India"
Samantha Ege "Undine Smith Moore's Soweto: A Cartography of Race, Rage, and Remembrance"
2021–22
Denise Gill: "Posthumous Aurality and Encountering the Sensory Deceased"
Okkyung Lee
Hannes Seidl: "Musical Form as a Communicative Tool"
Andrea Moore
Megan Lavengood: "The Common Cold: Using Data Science to Define the Winter Topic in Video Game Music"
Dylan Robinson: "Giving / Taking Notice"
2020–21
Nick Seaver: "Overwhelmed, Alone, Uncool: Visions of the Listener in Algorithmic Recommendation"
Ashon Crawley: "Notes for a Cassette: The Hammond Organ and Blackqueer Gathering"
Naomi André: "Engaging Opera as Popular Culture and Social Justice"
Thomas Ankersmit: "Experimenting and Composing with the Serge Modular Synthesizer"
Alisha Jones
Jonathan De Souza
Matana Roberts
Bonnie Gordon
Yun Emily Wang
2019–2020
Mike Ladd
Catherine Lamb
Elizabeth Margulis
Bonnie Gordon – POSTPONED due to COVID-19
Alisha Jones – POSTPONED due to COVID-19
Ashon Crawley – POSTPONED due to COVID-19
2018–19
Nina Sun Eidsheim
Jen Shyu
Naomi Waltham-Smith
Ana Maria Ochoa
Michelle Lou
Farzaneh Hemmasi
2017–18
Julio Estrada
Bill Brown
Jennifer Iverson
Tyshawn Sorey
Joanna Demers
Jessica Baker
Emma Dillon
2016–17
Louise Meintjes
Giorgio Netti
Brian Kane
Farah Griffin
Benjamin Piekut
Susan McClary
2015–16
Sumanth Gopinath
Seth Kim-Cohen
Jocelyne Guilbault
Alexandra Hui
Martha Feldman
2014–15
Jocelyn Neal
Gary Tomlinson
Jane Sugarman
George Lewis
Eric Drott
2013–14
Georgina Born
Charles Garrett
Brian Hyer
Liza Lim
Timothy Taylor
Emily Thompson
2012–13
Peter Ablinger
Joseph Auner
Nicholas Cook
Suzanne Cusick
Kiri Miller
2011–12
Arthur Kampella
Barbara Milewski
2010–11
Annette Richards
Carol Vernallis
2009–10
Jonathan Pieslak
Richard Leppert
2008–09
Michael Veal
Charles J. Smith
Ronald Radano
Fabien Levy
2007–08
Lewis Rowell
Regula Anna Qureshi
Trevor Wishart
Dorit Tanay
2006–07
Scott Burnham
Robert Morris
Walter Frisch
Robert O’Meally
2005–06
Nicholas Cook
Judith Becker
Georg Friedrich Haas
2004–05
2003–04