Papers and Talks

• “Spinoza, A Life in Three Acts: Localizing and Personalizing Jewish History and Western Thought in an American Opera,” National Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Denver (November 2023, upcoming)
• “Musicalizing the Life of Baruch Spinoza: A Philosophical and Jewish Project.” Guest Lecture, Universität Innsbruck (May 15, 2023)
• “Aristotle as Musical Feminist: Kate Soper’s IPSA DIXIT,” Kunstuniversität Graz, Institut für Musikästhetik (January 9, 2023)
• “Relationality, Aesthetics, and Collaboration in Kate Soper’s IPSA DIXIT.” 21^st Quinquennial Congress of the International Musicological Society, Athens, Greece (August 22-26, 2022).
• “Form as an Ideal Social Relation: Kate Soper’s Musical and Dramatic Reading of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in IPSA DIXIT.” Music and Philosophy Study Group of the Royal Music Association Biennial Conference, Kings College London (July 7-8, 2022).
• “Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade (After Plato’s “Symposium”): Celebrating Friendship and Homoerotic Desire through Philosophical Program Music.” Guest Lecture, Kings College London Music Colloquium (January 26, 2022).
• “Osvaldas Balakauskas’s Chopin-Hauer: Reflections on the Nineteenth Century through a Musical and Philosophical Pun.” Invited paper for the International Chopinological Conference, Through the Prism of Chopin: Reimagining the Nineteenth Century, Warsaw (December 1-4, 2021).
• “Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s “Symposium”) and his Homosexual Musical Circle: The Homoeroticism and Lyricism of a Musical Gift.” National Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Chicago, Illinois (held online, November 11-12 and 20-21, 2021).
• “Philosophical Amateurism and the Musical Reception of Also Sprach Zarathustra.” Guest Lecture, Oxford Music Faculty Graduate Research Colloquium (October 19, 2021).
• “Philosophical Amateurism and the Musical Reception of Also Sprach Zarathustra.” Guest Lecture, Forum für neuere Musikgeschichte, Universität Wien (June 17, 2021).
• “The Serenade (after Plato’s “Symposium”) and Leonard Bernstein’s Homosexual Musical Circle: Programmatic Homoeroticism, Lyricism, and the Giving of a Musical Gift.” Annual Conference of the Society for American Music, Tacoma, Washington, (held online, June 9-12, 2021).
• “Amateurism and the Musical Reception of Also Sprach Zarathustra: Synecdoche, Choral Voices, and Reading Philosophy.”  Music and Philosophy Study Group of the Royal Music Association Biennial Conference, Kings College London (July 11-12, 2019).
• “Nietzsche for Four Hands: Mahler’s Symphony no. 3 in Transcription and the Popular Reception of Also Sprach Zarathustra.” Symposium on Piano Four Hands “Vierhändig, immer einmal!,” Kunstuniversität Graz (January 25-26, 2019).