Spring 2017
February 2 (Opera Studies, Th. 5:30 pm, 2 VOX): Marian Wilson Kimber (University of Iowa), “Reciting Parsifal: Opera as Spoken Word Performance in America”
February 10: L. Poundie Burstein (Hunter College and the Graduate Center at CUNY), “Paths and Asides in Galant Expositions”
February 17: Marian Wilson Kimber and Natalie Landowski (University of Iowa), “In a Woman’s Voice: Musical Readings by American Women” (lecture-recital)
March 9 (Opera Studies, Th. 5:30 PM, 2520D UCC): Cody Norling, (University of Iowa), “Puccini’s Grotesque West: Indigenous Depictions in La fanciulla del west”
March 24: James Skretta (University of Iowa): “Metric Struggle/Cognitive Struggle: A Phenomenological Approach to Narrative in Schumann’s Symphony No. 2”
April 6: Glenn Watkins (University of Michigan), Recital Hall (2301 VOX), 7:30 pm, “Music and the 100th Anniversary of America’s Entrance into World War I”
April 7: Ben Duane (Washington University in St. Louis), “Bayesian Learning of Tonal Cadences”
April 14: Daphne Tan (Indiana University), “‘Hearing Organic Structure’: Viktor Zuckerkandl as Schenker’s Disciple”
April 17 (Opera Studies, Mon. 5:30 p.m., 2390 UCC): Margaret Butler (University of Florida), “Performing Celebrity: Opera Theater, Audiences, and the Late Eighteenth-Century Prima Donna”
April 21: Matthew Arndt (University of Iowa), “Berg’s Piano Sonata and Reverse Organicism”
April 28: Daniel Chua (University of Hong Kong), “Desecularizing Beethoven: Is Beethoven a Sacred Composer?”
Fall 2016
October 7: Kate van Orden (Harvard University), “Learning to Read”
October 21: Tim Storhoff (ethnomusicologist and arts administrator), “Arts Policy and Musical Diplomacy in the Obama Era: An Ethnomusicologist and Arts Administrator’s Perspective”
December 2: Carol Oja (Harvard University), “Marian Anderson and the Desegregation of the American Concert Stage”
Spring 2016
January 29: Douglas Shadle (Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University)
February 12: Panel on Teaching at Liberal Arts Colleges: Nikki Malley (Associate Professor, Knox College); John Spilker (Assistant Professor, Nebraska Wesleyan
University); Jama Stilwell (Professor, Cornell College)
February 19: Kelsey McGinnis (University of Iowa)
February 26: Wendy Heller (Professor, Princeton University)
March 11: Elizabeth Margulis (Professor, University of Arkansas)
April 1: Melvin Butler (Assistant Professor, University of Chicago), co-sponsored with John Rapson
April 8: Danielle Fosler-Lussier (Associate Professor, the Ohio State University)
April 22: Ama Aduonum (Associate Professor, Illinois State University)
April 29: Matthew Arndt (Assistant Professor, the University of Iowa)
Fall 2015
September 4: Alison Altstatt (Assistant Professor, University of Northern Iowa). Co-sponsored by Special Collections. Note alternate location: Room 2032, Main Library.
September 11: Drew Nobile (Assistant Professor, University of Oregon)
October 5, 3:30 pm: Kurt Ellenberger (Grand Valley State University)
October 16: Paul Steinbeck (Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis)
November 20: Anna Gawboy (Assistant Professor, the Ohio State University)
Spring 2015
February 6: Anne MacNeil (Associate Professor, University of North Carolina)
February 20: Katherine Preston (Professor, William and Mary)
March 13: Alexander Rehding (Professor, Harvard University)
April 10: Anne Walters Robertson (Professor, University of Chicago)
May 1: Gretchen Horlacher (Professor, Indiana University)
Fall 2014
October 17: Jennifer Iverson (Assistant Professor of Music Theory, The University of Iowa)
October 24: Victoria Malawey (Assistant Professor of Music, Macalester College)
October 31: Marian Wilson Kimber (Associate Professor of Musicology, The University of Iowa)
November 14: Nathan Platte (Assistant Professor of Musicology, The University of Iowa)
December 5: Augusta Read Thomas (University Professor, University of Chicago)
December 12: Seth Brodsky (Assistant Professor of Music, University of Chicago)
Spring 2014
February 7: Benjamin Dwyer (Professor, Middlesex University, London)
February 21: David Huron (Professor, Ohio State University)
February 28: Jeffrey Magee (Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
March 7: Jennifer Teitle (Associate Director of Graduate Student Success, the University of Iowa)
March 28: Eric Saylor (Associate Professor, Drake University)
April 11: Melinda Boyd (Assistant Professor, University of Northern Iowa)
May 2: William Caplin (James McGill Professor, McGill University)
