Keynote address "Chopin as a National Composer: A Story of an
Appropriation," at the conference New Images of Frederic Chopin,
organized by FORUM POLAND, Polish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, 2009.
"Music and Modernity: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Polish
Galicia," seminar for the research group "Modernism in Central Europe"
and
the Western Branch of the Japanese Society of Musicologists, University
of Osaka, Japan, 2009.
"Music and Modernity: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Polish
Galicia," seminar for the Japan Association of Occidental-Slavic
Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Keynote address at the 9th International Conference
"(Auto)Biography as a Musicological Discourse," Department
of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, University of Arts in Belgrade,
Serbia, 2008, declined.
Keynote address “Chopin and the Discourse on Salons,” at V
International Conference “Chopin in Paris: The 1830s”
organized by the National Fryderyk Chopin Institute (NIFC), Warsaw,
Poland, 2006.
“Inventing Europe: Myths, Conflicts, Reality,” University of
Alberta,
Edmonton, 2005.
"Memory, Identity and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France,"
Colloquium Guest Lecture, Department of History & Classics,
University of
Alberta, Edmonton, 2004.
"The Relevance of Musicology for the Twenty-First Century,"
Department of Music and Theatre, University of Oslo, Norway, 2002.
"Parisian Salons as Sponsors of Music: Strategies of
Empowerment," Doctoral Colloquium Guest Lecture, Department of Music,
McGill University, Montreal, 2002.
Chopin i polska emigracja w Paryzu po powstaniu listopadowym,
1831-1849" [Chopin and Polish Exiles in Paris
after the November Uprising, 1831-1849], The Polish Institute of Arts
and Sciences in Canada and the Polish Library, Montreal, 2002.
Guest lecturer in a seminar The Learned Lady taught by
Professor Gina Luria Walker, Department of Social Sciences, The New
School University (formerly The New School for Social Research), New
York City, 2002.
"The Enlightenment as Anti-feminism," keynote address at the
Interdisciplinary Conference Women in Political Studies, Graduate
Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York City, 2001.
"Writing a Biography of Fryderyk Chopin," lecture, part of the
2000-2001 Fine Arts Research Lecture Series,
University of Saskatchewan, 2001.
Guest lecturer in a seminar The Learned Lady taught by
Professor Gina Luria Walker, Department of Social Sciences, The New
School University (formerly The New School for Social Research), New
York City, 2000.
Commentator on the panel "Women and Political Sociability in
Nineteenth-Century France," Western Society for French History Annual
Conference, University of California in Los Angeles, 2000.
"The Lure of Polite Conversation: Feminie Salons and
Enlightenment
Discourse in Pre-Revolutionary France," Eighteenth-Century Studies at
the
University of Saskatchewan (Research Unit), 2000.
"Gendered Spheres of Sociability as Modes of Communication in
Post-Revolutionary France," presentation at the colloquium "Learned
Ladies
and Femmes Philosophes: Women Intellectuals and Enlightenment,"
Department
of History, Royal Holloway, University of London, England, 2000.
"Gendered Discourse as a Political Option in Pre-Revolutionary
France," at the East-West Seminar on "Progress
and Violence in
Enlightenment Thought," organized by the International Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies/Société Internationale
d'Étude du Dix-huitième
Siècle, Berlin, Germany, 1997.
"Chopin in Paris, 1831-1849," an
introductory lecture preceding the Chopin recital of Marek Jablonski,
Convocation Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 1996.
"The Great Tradition of Polish Music: Chopin and Szymanowski," an
introductory lecture on the occasion of the piano recital of Marek
Jablonski, Convocation Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1995.
Discussant on a panel "Poles as Reflected in the Eyes of Others
and Their Own," The 1993 Midwest Slavic Conference, Michigan State
University, 1993.
Commentator on the paper "The Czech Democratic Tradition Before
1918: Anomaly, or a Case of Successful Concept of a Rising Nation?" The
Third Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of European
Ideas, Carleton University, Ottawa, 1993.
"Galician Society as a Cultural Public 1772-1914,"
Department of History, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1993.
"Messiahs and Critics: Ethnocentrism versus Occidentalism in
Nineteenth-Century Poland," Department of History, University of
Alberta,
Edmonton, 1993.
"European Popular Music: Past and Present," The School of Music,
Michigan State University, 1993.
"The Role of Rock Music in Political Transition in the Soviet
Block," The School of Music, Michigan State University, 1993.
"On Some Dilemmas of Post-Communist Rock Music Culture in
Poland,"
The School of Music, Michigan State University, 1992.
"Chopin and the Parisian Salons, 1831-1849," Department of Music,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1992.
"European Culture
Community and Nationalisms," colloquium, Department of Sociology,
University of California,
San Diego, 1992.
"Popular Music in Historical Perspective," Department of Music,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1992.
"The Current State of Musicology," The
School of Music, Michigan State University, 1991.
"Musical Subjects in French Painting of the Romantic Period," The
School of Music, Michigan State University, 1991; Department of
Music, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1991.
"European Culture Community and Nationalisms," Michigan State
University, 1991.
"'Popularity' in Nineteenth-Century European Music,"
Forschungszentrum Populäre Musik, Humboldt University,
Berlin, GDR, 1988.