"Chopin and the Discourse on the Old Regine under the July
Monarchy," The Third Internation al Congress to commemorate the 200th
anniversary of the birth of Frederic Chopin, Warsaw, Poland, 2010.
"Music, Identity, and Gender in France in the Age of
Sensibility," Sixteenth George Rude Seminar in French History and
Civilisation, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 2008.
Chair of the panel "Eighteenth-century Personae and Values,"
Sixteenth George Rude Seminar in French History and
Civilisation, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 2008.
"Chopin and the Parisian Salons in the 1840s," The 7th
International Conference "Chopin in Paris: The 1840s," organized by the
Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina (National Frederic Chopin
Institute)' Warsaw, Poland, 2007.
"Iconography of the French Salon in the Making of French Cultural
History," 2007 Pacific Coast Branch - American Historical Association
annual conference "Between Fantasy and Reality: Image, Representation,
and History," Honolulu, 2007.
“French Identities: Memory, History and the Persistence of the
Salon,” Fifteen George Rudé Seminar in French History and
Civilisation, University of Adelaide, Australia, 2006.
“Memory and the Production of Historical Knowledge: the Case of
French Enlightenment,” 120th Annual Meeting of the American
Historical Association, Philadelphia, 2006.
"Biography in Musicological Research," International Conference
on
"Music's Intellectual History: Founders, Followers and Fads," RILM, The
City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, 2005.
"Memory at Work: The Invention of the Salon in Post-Revolutionary
France," 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical
Studies,
Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, 2004.
"The Invention of the Salon in Post-Revolutionary France,"
International Conference on "Cultural Memory in France: Margins and
Centers," Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and
Francophone
Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, U.S.A., 2003.
"Music and Gender in French Conduct and Educational Literature,"
The Seventeenth Annual DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth-Century
Studies: The History of Manners, University of South Florida, Tampa,
U.S.A., 2003.
"The Formation of Gendered Musical Identity in post-Revolutionary
France," Society for French Historical Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto,
Canada, 2002.
"Feminine Salons as a Spectacle," Canadian Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies/Société canadienne
d'étude du dix-huitième siècle, University of
Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 2001.
"Memory, History and Meaning: Musical Biography Reconsidered,"
the 37th Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association on "Theory
and Practice of Musical Biography," King's College, London, England,
2001.
Musical Biography as a Cultural Discourse: Chopin as a Case
Study," American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, U.S.A.,
2001.
"Gender and Enlightenment Discourse," British Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 28th Annual Conference, St. John's College,
Oxford, England, 2001.
"On the Fiction of Anciens and Moderns, Public Sphere, and Women
as
Agents of Corruption in Pre-Revolutionary France," Western Society for
French History Annual Meeting, University of California in Los
Angeles,U.S.A. 2000.
"Conflicting Ideals of the Salonnière after the French
Revolution," Society for French Historical Studies Annual Meeting,
Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 1999.
"Whose Muses? Parisian Salon Women From the French Revolution to
1848," Society for French Historical Studies Annual Meeting, Ottawa,
Canada, 1998.
"Political Correctness for Polite Society:
Pro-Monarchical Ideals of Honnêteté in Seventeenth- and
Eighteenth-Century
France," Western Society for French History Annual Meeting, University
of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 1997.
"Gender as a Political Orientation: Parisian Salonnières
and
the Querelle des Bouffons," Symbols, Myths and Images
of the French
Revolution: A Colloquium in Honour of Professor James A. Leith,
Department
of History, University of Regina, Regina, Canada, 1996.
"Salon Women and the
Ideals of Honnêteté in Pre-Revolutionary France," at the
workshop on "The
Parisian Salons: Evolution, Significance, Influence," at the 5th
Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas
(ISSEI), University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands,
1996.
"From Real Communism to Unreal Capitalism. Music in
Transition: The Case of Poland," read in absentia at the Fourth
Bi-Annual
Conference on East European Affairs, St. Mary's College, Orchard Lake,
Michigan, U.S.A., 1995.
"Salon Women and the Quarrels about Opera in
Eighteenth-century Paris," the Fourth Conference of the International
Society for the Study of European Ideas on "The European Legacy:
Towards
New Paradigms." Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz, Austria, 1994.
"Chopin and
Polish Political Exiles in Paris, 1831-1848," the 24th Consortium on
Revolutionary Europe, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, U.S.A.,
1994.
"Parisian Salons as Sponsors of Music in the Early 19th Century,"
The
Fourth Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of European
Ideas, (part of the annual meeting of the Canadian Learned Societies)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1994.
"The Sounds of Salons Prétieux: Music in the Parisian
Salons of the
Seventeenth Century," the Twenty Second Annual
Conference of the Western Society for French History,
Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.A., 1994.
"Rhetoric of Mass Participation: Music and Politics in
Galicia 1772-1867," The 1993 Annual Meeting of the Consortium on
Revolutionary Europe, Atlanta, U.S.A., 1993.
"Poland as the Antemurale of
Europe," the 1993 Midwest Slavic Conference, Michigan State University,
East Lansing, U.S.A. Discussant on the panel "Poles as Reflected in the
Eyes of Others and Their Own." The same conference as above.
"Ethnocentrism versus Occidentalism in Nineteenth-Century
Poland," The
Third Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of European
Ideas (part of the annual meeting of the Canadian Learned Societies),
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 1993.
"The Role of
Culture in Political Transition. Rock Music in the Soviet Bloc as a
Case
Study," the 1993 Conference of the International
Council for Traditional Music, Berlin, Germany, 1993.
"Iconography of Parisian
Musical Salon." Study Session on Musical Iconography, the same
conference
as above.
"Music in the Parisian Salons in the Eighteenth Century," the
Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History,
Missoula, Montana, U.S.A., 1993.
"The Role of Culture in the Sovietization of
Poland, 1944-1948," International Conference of the Association
Internationale d'Histoire Contemporaine d'Europe on "Internal Factors
Facilitating the Sovietization of the Central and East European States,
1944-1948," the Institute for Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences
of
the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, 1993.
"Rock Culture in Poland and its Crisis in the 1980s and
1990s," Canadian-Polish Youth Workshop, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,
1992.
"Messiahs and Critics: Ethnocentrism versus Occidentalism in
Nineteenth-Century Poland," Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Auburn
University, Alabama, U.S.A., 1992.
"Red Trap of Communism: On the Utopia of Rock
Ideology," Central European Popular Music, Czechoslovak Academy of
Sciences, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1992.
"Chopin and the Parisian Salons
1831-1848," Twentieth Annual conference of the Western Society for
French
History, Rosario Resort, Washington, U.S.A., 1992.
"'Antemurale of Europe': From the History of Megalomania in
Poland," the Third Conference of The International Society for the
Study
of European Ideas on "European Integration and the European
Mind," University of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark, 1992.
"Did Rock Smash the Wall? The Role of Rock Music in Political
Transition," The 1992 Annual Meeting of the American Historical
Association, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 1992.
Conditions of Re/Production of Popular Culture in Poland
under Communism," International Seminar: Perspektiven Europäischer
Kulturpolitik, Dresden, Germany, 1991.
"The European Culture Community and
Nationalisms," Popular Music and Social Reality. The Sixth
International
IASPM Conference, Berlin, Germany; chair-respondent of the plenary
session
on Methodologies at the same conference, 1991.
"Rock Music in the New Political, Social and Economic
Situation in Poland," International Conference on Popular Music,
Humboldt
University, Berlin, GDR, 1990.
"Music in the System of Education in
Nineteenth-century Poland," International Conference on Music and
Education, International Society for the Study of Popular Music
(ISSPM),
Dutch Branch, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1990.
"Gott erhalte unsern Kaiser . . . The Image of the World in
Galician School Songbooks in the 2nd half of the 19th century,"
Colloque
International "Musique, Histoire, Democratie. Bicentennaire de la
Revolution Française," the Musée National des Arts et
Traditions
Populaires, Paris, France, 1989.
"Tele-Visualized Music. On the Meaning of Video Clips,"
International
Interdisciplinary Conference on "Popular Music and Social Reality,"
Forschungszentrum Populäre Musik, Humboldt University, Berlin,
GDR,
1988.
"Conceptions of 'Popular Music' in the Polish Humanities after
World
War II," International Interdisciplinary Conference on "Popular Music
in
Historical Perspective," Forschungszentrum Populäre Musik,
Humboldt
University, Berlin, GDR, 1987.