A Symposium in honour of Harry White
18th June 2025
A Symposium in honour of Harry White
On 1 September 2025, Professor Harry White will retire from University College Dublin, following forty years as a Faculty Member, and thirty-two years as Professor and Chair of Music.
To mark this occasion, his colleagues in the UCD School of Music have organized a one-day symposium on 18 June 2025 devoted to his research and its wide-ranging influence on the development of musicology in Ireland and abroad.
The symposium will comprise four panel sessions, all of which respectively derive their thematic content from four of Professor White’s most significant publications.
Conference Details
Date18th June 2025
Time09:30
LocationUCD School of Music, Newman Building, Belfield
Please RSVP to music@ucd.ie
Programme Details
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Welcome (Dr Tomás McAuley) and Opening Address (Professor Wolfgang Marx) |
| 10:00 - 11:30 | Session 1, The Keeper’s Recital (1998): Researching and Writing Irish Musical History Axel Klein, Estelle Murphy, Patrick Zuk, Úna Hunt, Helen Doyle, Adam Behan |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Coffee |
| 11:45 - 13:15 | Session 2, Music and the Irish Literary Imagination (2008): Musicology in the Context of Irish Studies Aidan Thomson, Laura Anderson, Séamas de Barra, Laura Watson, John O’Flynn |
| 13:15 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session 3, The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (2013): The Challenges of Curating Irish Musical Art and Experience Maria McHale, Kerry Houston, Gareth Cox, Michael Murphy, Hannah Millington, Helen Lawlor |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Coffee |
| 15:45 - 17:00 | Session 4, The Musical Discourse of Servitude (2020): Promoting the Case for Historical Musicology and Analysis John Cunningham; Julian Horton; Nicole Grimes; Lorraine Byrne Bodley; Anne Hyland |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Response from Professor Harry White |