Artsong and Gender in Dialogue
An online lecture series
Welcome to Artsong and Gender in Dialogue (AGiD)!
The online lecture series „Artsong and Gender in Dialogue“ (AGiD) seeks to foster an international community of scholars and practitioners from all disciplines engaged with the study of artsong from a gender perspective.
We now invite proposals for the second series of events; this will take place from October 2026 to February 2027 and feature the theme
The full call for papers is available here. The submission deadline was August 15, 2026.
Season 2: October 2026 – January 2027
October 26, 2026
Stephen Rodgers (Eugene, USA)
From Archive to Album: Curation as Care
Karin Martensen (Berlin, Germany)
Caring for voices, stories and compositions: Telling stories through songs
Betty Allison (Halifax, Canada) / Amanda Lalonde (Saskatoon, Canada)
Care and the Compositional Voice of Julie Baroni-Cavalcabò
November 9, 2026
Sharon Krebs (Victoria, Canada)
Josephine Lang’s Reputation
Felix Dieterle (Vienna, Austria)
Composing/Singing Motherly Love: Doing Family in Nineteenth-Century Bourgeois Song Culture
Olga Krashenko (Maynooth, Ireland)
From Baby Voice to Musical Voice: Motherhood, Lalangue and Creation in Song-Line
November 23, 2026
Madlen Poguntke (Seoul, Korea)
Which Voices Survive? Gender, Care, and the Unequal Afterlife of Women’s Musical Voices
Briony Cox-Williams (London, England)
Rethinking Sentimentality in Victorian Song
December 7, 2026
Lorraine Byrne Bodley (Maynooth, Ireland)
Un(veiling) our Hidden Truths: Infanticide in 19th and 20th Century Artsong
Maria Behrendt (Hannover, Germany)
Happiness or Misery? Ambivalent Representations of Motherhood in musical settings of Chamisso’s Frauenliebe und -leben and Thränen
January 11, 2027
Susan Wollenberg (Oxford, England)
Robert Schumann’s Frauenliebe und –leben cycle (1840): signals and significance
Harald Krebs (Victoria, Canada)
A Munich Maiden Makes her Mark: Josephine Lang’s Early Songs for Men’s Chorus
Rebecca Grotjahn (Detmold/Paderborn, Germany)
Queer songs? On the question of vocal parts in the lieder of Johannes Brahms
January 25, 2027
Jennifer Ronyak (Graz, Austria)
“Le double sexe” and Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman’s Les illuminations: The Promises and Limits of an Image
Virginia Jansen (Davis, USA)
Analyzing advocacy in the performance history of Florence Beatrice Price’s “My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord”