Select Research Events & Speaking Engagements
Depression in Popular Music International Conference
Jessica A. Holmes, organizer & co-host
Sorbonne University - June 26-27, 2025
An interdisciplinary international conference held at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. Organized and funded in connection with my Spring 2025 Visiting Professorship at the Sorbonne Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology & Public Health through the 4EU+ European University Alliance.
Visit the conference website for the CfP, program, abstracts, bios, and conference booklet.
Public Lecture: Jack Halberstam, “Unworlding: Anarchictecture after Everything”
University of Copenhagen - March 4, 2025
An event co-hosted by the University of Copenhagen Art & Health and Art & Earth Research Clusters, in collaboration with the UCPH Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Difference.
Public Lecture by Tami Gadir & Kyle Devine
November 1, 2024 - An event organized and hosted on behalf of the UCPH Musicology Division.
Public Lecture by Ann Powers & Eric Weisbard
October 6, 2023 - An event organized and hosted on behalf of the UCPH Musicology Division.
Invited Research Lecture
Jessica A. Holmes, “Music at the Margins of Sense: From the Figure of Deafness to Expert Listening”
Hong Kong Baptist University - March 15, 2023
Delivered online in the Department of Humanities & Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. An event organized and hosted by Dr. Francois Mouillot.
Invited Research Lecture
Jessica A. Holmes, “The Representation of Depression and Gender in the Music and Reception of American Pop Singer Billie Eilish”
American University of Beirut - November 21, 2022
Delivered as part of an Erasmus+ Faculty Fellowship in the Department of Fine Arts & Art History at the American University of Beirut (AUB Lebanon) in November 2022.
Public Book Talk: Jonathan Sterne, Diminished Faculties
University of Copenhagen - May 10, 2022
Organized and hosted on behalf of the UCPH Art & Health Research Cluster.
Public Lecture: Jonathan Sterne, “On Cultures of Loudness and the Normalization of Altered Hearing”
UCLA - January 22, 2019
Organized and hosted in collaboration with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Musical Humanities
Distinguished Lecture
Jessica A. Holmes, “Un-Disciplining Musicology?: Music, Disability, and Deafness”
UCLA - January 25, 2018
Delivered as part of a panel alongside presentations by Robert Fink, Uri McMillan, Beth Levy, and Stephan Pennington in the UCLA Musicology Department’s Distinguished Lecture series.
Invited Research Talk:
Jessica Holmes, “Between Sign Language and Sound: Music and Deaf Culture in the Work of Christine Sun Kim”
UCLA - January 13, 2018
Delivered as part of an invited research panel entitled, “Illegible Literary Audiation” alongside presentations by Roshanak Kheshti and Nina Eidsheim. An event organized and hosted by the University of California Humanities Research Institute’s “Counter-Production: Noise as Critical Research” graduate student working group.