INVITED TALKS

ENCOUNTERS WITH SCHOENBERG AND STEIN | UCLA | 2024

“Schoenberg over the Dnipro: Free Atonality and Dodecaphony in 1920s Ukraine”

MUSICOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SERIES | PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | 2024

“Rethinking Music History in Central and Eastern Europe”

SHEVCHENKO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY OF CANADA | 2023

“Decolonizing Ukrainian Art”

SIXTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL FORUM “CREATIVE UKRAINE” | KYIV | 2022

“Discovering Ukraine: What Reopening of a Culture Can Give to the World”

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HARRIMAN INSTITUTE | 2022

“The Enduring Resonance of Carol of the Bells: Ukrainian Origins and Musical Contexts”

COLORADO MAHLERFEST XXXV SYMPOSIUM | BOULDER | 2022

"Mahler's Nietzsche: Philosophical Resonances in the Early Symphonies”    

SHEVCHENKO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY | EXPERTISE-A-THON FOR UKRAINE | 2022

“Why Defining the History of Ukrainian Art Music is More Important than Ever”

SOUNDING HABSBURG CONFERENCE | NEW YORK CITY | 2022

“Ukraine, the Habsburg Empire, and the Concept of the ‘West’”

UKRAINIAN MUSEUM OF NEW YORK | 2021

“The Impact of Modernity: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Ukrainian Art.”       

TEDxCUNY SALON | 2020

Ripple Effects: Why Study the Humanities

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HARRIMAN INSTITUTE | 2020

“Between Serialism and Suprematism: Nikolai Roslavets’ Modernist Music.”

WILLIAMS COLLEGE | 2019

“‘Thrice Homeless?’: Music and Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna”


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

THE ASSAULT ON CULTURE: THE HOLODOMOR YEARS | COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | 2023

“Searching for the Unscored: Music and Musicians and the Holodomor" 

POLITICAL MAHLER—GUSTAV MAHLER IM POLITISCHEN KONTEXT | UNIVERSITÄT FÜR MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE KUNST WIEN | 2023

“They were his brothers—and they were the future’: Mahler’s Lasting Political Resonances in Ukraine”

UN-CONFERENCE ON STEFANIA TURKEWICH: MUSIC AS POLITICS AND GLOBAL/CULTURAL EXCHANGE | EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC | 2023

“Composer as Archetype: Stefania Turkevych and contemporary Ukrainian music”

MUSIC AS INFORMATIONAL WEAPON IN CONTEMPORARY WAR | LVIV | 2022

“Ukrainian Contemporary Music as a ‘Cultural Weapon’ in the United States”

AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY CONFERENCE | NEW ORLEANS | 2022

“‘Peace will defeat war’: Borys Liatoshynsky and the Ukrainian Symphony”

21ST QUINQUENNIAL INTERNATIONAL MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY CONGRESS: MUSIC ACROSS BORDERS | ATHENS | 2022

“Re-Evaluating Borders: The Second Viennese School in Soviet Ukraine”

SOUNDING HABSBURG CONFERENCE | NEW YORK CITY | 2022

“‘Vienna of the East:’ Musical Pluralism in Lemberg”

TARAS SHEVCHENKO CONFERENCE | INDIANA UNIVERSITY | 2020

“Artistic Responses to Revolution: The Ukrainian Musical Landscape since 2014” 

BETWEEN KYIV AND VIENNA: HISTORIES OF PEOPLE, IDEAS AND OBJECTS IN CIRCULATION AND MOTION | INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SCIENCES | 2019

“The Roslavets Case: Modern Music from Vienna to Kharkiv”

AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY CONFERENCE | BOSTON | 2019

“Reconstructing a National Canon: Ukrainian Orchestral Programming since 2014”

GUSTAV MAHLER TOBLACH WORKSHOP | TOBLACH, AUSTRIA | 2018

“Mahler and Bohemia”

AUSTRIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE | BURLINGTON, VT | 2018

“Austria and the East: Mahler’s Multiethnic Music”

WAGNER 1900 | OXFORD UNIVERSITY | 2018

“Art and Revolution: Wagner’s Legacy in Vienna 1900”

NORTH AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY MUSIC CONFERENCE | VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | 2017

“Overcoming and the Übermensch: Contexts for Mahler’s Benevolent Ambition”

AUSTRIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE | CHICAGO | 2017

“Nietzsche, Mahler, and Defining Ambition,”

ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE | UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS | 2014

“Whose Nietzsche? Mahler and Strauss’s Treatment of Also sprach Zarathustra

GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE | DENVER, CO | 2013

“Nietzsche and Mahler’s ‘Perfectly Self-Contained Tetralogy’”