Society for Musicology in Ireland Annual Conference, 24th - 26th June, UCC (online)

24 Jun 2022

The Society for Musicology in Ireland and the Department of Music at University College Cork are delighted to welcome you to our annual plenary conference via Zoom from 24-26 June 2022. Life in Ireland now seems to be returning swiftly to in-person gatherings; we made the decision, however, to hold our conference online for several reasons. 

An online conference means we’re able to offer twenty panel sessions featuring almost sixty papers that will be presented from eight different time zones. And while I understand the want for things to return to normal and share the desire for in-person intellectual connection and exchange, I also accept that pre-pandemic normal did not work for everyone. The pandemic has forced critical conversations on topics including accessibility, stability/precarity, solidarity, care, and climate justice—to name but a few. Perhaps the pandemic is, in Arundhati Roy’s words, “a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.” Inspired by intersectional feminist work like Roy’s, I hope to use this opportunity to walk through that portal, ready to imagine—and fight for—the kinds of thinking/feeling/musicking worlds and futures we’d like to build. I do hope you’ll join us!