Previous Events

Friday, June 26, 2026 - 10:45 to 18:00

Bournemouth University (BH12 5BB)

A Study Day organised by the Literature and Music Research Group, in partnership with University Music Bournemouth and The Thomas Hardy Society, on Friday 26th June at Bournemouth University.

Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 08:30 to Saturday, July 5, 2025 - 18:30

University of York

In this session, members of the OU Literature and Music Research Group will present the prototype of a new interactive digital resource that allows users to explore connections between their reading and listening experiences.

Friday, June 28, 2024 - 10:00 to 19:00

Bournemouth University

In partnership with University Music, Bournemouth, The Open University Literature and Music Research Group are organising a one-day symposium on the theme of Words, Music and Silence, which will take place on Friday 28th June, 2024 at Bournemouth University (BH12 5BB). The day will conclude wit...

Friday, September 29, 2023 - 17:30 to 20:30

Online & South House Lecture Theatre, Arts University Bournemouth

A practice-based examination of songs and the silence that frames them

Wednesday, December 1, 2021 - 09:30 to Saturday, December 4, 2021 - 17:30

Online

Delia da Sousa Correa and Robert Samuels are invited speakers of The Fryderyk Chopin Institute.

Tuesday, September 1, 2020 - 14:30 to Thursday, September 3, 2020 - 14:30

Online

Round Table on ‘Literature and Music: in from the margins and out again’ convened at ‘Words, Music and Marginalisation’, the sixth Biennial Conference of the WMA Forum (the Forum of the International Association for Word and Music Studies) held online at the University o...

Friday, June 26, 2020 - 11:00 to 17:00

Online

‘Attending to the Auditory’ a Session convened by Delia da Sousa Correa at English Shared Futures 2. This event has been postponed - new date to be confirmed.

Thursday, January 9, 2020 - 09:00 to Saturday, January 11, 2020 - 17:00

Walton Hall, Milton Keynes

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Members of the Research Group will be participating in the annual BFE/RMA Research Students' Conference, to be hosted by the Open University in January 2020. Details of the conference may be found on the conference web page (link above).

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 11:00 to Saturday, June 1, 2019 - 17:00

Online

Delia da Sousa Correa presented at Word and Music Studies 12th International Conference on ‘Make It Old: Retro Forms and Styles in Literature and Music’ 

Sunday, October 14, 2018 - 01:00 to 01:00

Study Day: Reaching Out: European Song Across Borders