Hochschule für Musik Detmold
6-9 September 2008
Conception and direction: Dr Cornelia Bartsch Prof. Dr Rebecca Grotjahn (University of Paderborn/Hochschule für Musik Detmold), Pavel Jiracek (Hochschule für Musik Köln) and Prof. Dr Melanie Unseld (University of Oldenburg).
The lectures have now been published as a book:

Felsensprengerin, Brückenbauerin, Wegbereiterin. The composer Ethel Smyth Rock Blaster, Bridge Builder, Road Paver: The Composer Ethel Smyth Edited by Cornelia Bartsch, Rebecca Grothjahn and Melanie Unseld. Munich: Allitera Verlag 2010[www.alittera.de]

Section I: "They are not, they are nothing": Women's movement
and anti-feminism around 1900

Susan Wollenberg (Oxford): Ethel Smyth as Honorary Doctor of the University of Oxford in Context

Rebecca Grotjahn (Detmold/Paderborn): "Instruments of their Gender" - Music in Gender Discourse around 1900

Amanda Harris (Sydney): Ethel Smyth's Feminism in Context: Turn of the Twentieth Century Women Composers and the Feminist
Press

Elizabeth Wood (New York): Smyth's "Death Grapple" with Music, 1920-1921

Section II: Self-images, images of others, mirror images - Ethel
Smyth's self-images

Elizabeth Kertesz (Melbourne): Creating Ethel Smyth: Representations of National Identity and Struggle in the Establishment of the Composer

Melanie Unseld (Oldenburg): Identity through Writing: The Autobiographical Writings of Ethel Smyth

Cornelia Bartsch (Detmold/Paderborn): Schön Rohtraut and the Saddle Horse - Lyrical and Biographical Ego in Ethel Smyth's Early Song Compositions

Elicia Clements (Toronto): As springy as a race horse: Female Pipings in Eden as Rejoinder to Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.

Section III: "She is different..." Homosexuality in
cultural discourse around 1900

Margaret Hunt (Amherst): Homosexuality in the 19th Century

Kordula Knaus (Graz): Mere Mates or Mostly Monsters. Homoeroticism and Homosexuality in Operas Around 1900

Sophie Fuller (London): 'Up to the neck in it': Smyth and Opera Erik Dremel (Halle/Wittenberg): Ethel Smyth's Mass in D and her friendship with Pauline Trevelyan

Christa Brüstle (Berlin): Light, dark, male, female: "so shall I at last be whole" - music and homosexuality in Michael Tippett

Section IV: Between Germany and England: Smyth's
music in the context of music history

Aidan Thomson (Belfast): Decadence and the Dame: Analysis, Criticism and Context of Der Wald

Jürgen Schaarwächter (Karlsruhe): A British Choral Symphony? Ethel Smyth's The Prison in Context

Pavel B. Jiracek (Cologne): Empire between the Lines: A Postcolonial Perspective

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