Art Song and Gender in Dialogue
An online lecture series
Join us for the first season of Artsong and Gender in Dialogue (AGiD)!
From October 2025 to January 2026, this new international online lecture series will bring together scholars for dialogue and exchange, exploring art song through the lens of gender.
We are happy to announce that the program can now be found below. Zoom details, abstracts, and speaker bios will follow soon.
Dates
October 27, 2025
Susan Youens (Notre Dame, USA)
Editing Erotomania at the Mid-Century Mark: Schumann’s “Geisternähe”
Chanda VanderHart (Krems, Austria)
The Poet’s Love(r): A Translational Reimagining of Schumann’s Dichterliebe
Sharon Krebs (Victoria, Canada)
Married to a Rebel: Two Women Composers’ Responses to the Revolution of 1848
November 10, 2025
Frithjof Bömcke-Vollmer (Nürnberg, Germany)
Beethoven, the Anti-Heroic? Broken Gestures and Gender in “An die ferne Geliebte” op. 98 (1816)
Magdalena Brandauer (Vienna, Austria)
Construction of Femininity in the Songs of Ethel Smyth
Chris van Rhyn (Potchefstroom, South Africa)
Finding the Masculine and White African Gay Woman in Priaulx Rainier’s Art Songs
November 24, 2025
Panel: The Musical Afterlife of Ophelia: Art Song, Madness, and the Female Voice
Jennifer Tipton (Miami, USA)
A Document in Death and Madness: Nineteenth-Century Art Song Settings of Ophelia’s Death
Kimberly Soby (New London, USA)
Framing Ophelia: Gender, Madness, and Musical Agency in Strauss’s Ophelia Lieder
Moderator: Lisa Williamson (Ithaca, USA)
December 8, 2025
Stephen Rodgers (Eugene, USA)
Gathering Leaves: Pauline Decker and the Limits of the Song Cycle
Jenna Ristilä (Helsinki, Finland)
Music as Emancipator in Carita Holmström’s Södergran Songs
Lara Venghaus (Paderborn, Germany)
From Gender as an Aesthetic Category in Friedrich Schleiermachers “Weihnachtsfeier“ to the Underrated Compositions of Louise Reichardt
January 12, 2026
Christopher Parton (Princeton, USA)
Maria Theresia Paradis and Eighteenth-Century Fictions of Blindness
Franziska Weigert (Regensburg, Germany)
‘Mother, Father, Child’ – Family Portrayals in German Romantic Lullabies and Their Role in Gender Discourse
Frances Falling (Vienna, Austria)
Poet, Composer, Mother: Exploring Identity and Agency in Florence Price’s Art Songs
January 26, 2026
Briony Cox-Williams (London, UK)
Rethinking Sentimentality in Victorian Song
Jacy Pedersen (Wichita, USA)
Identity and Nostalgia in Stefania Turkevych’s “Emigration Elegy”
Madlen Poguntke (Seoul, Korea)
Reframing Artsong: Transcultural Perspectives from Korean Gisaeng to European Salon Culture