Conference Papers

‘South Slav Vocal Music Revisited: Golden Age, Performance, Gender and Stardom.’

At the International Council for Central and East European Studies 2025 Congress.

University College London, UK, 21st-25th July 2025.

 'Performers' Reflections on Re(Creating Art Song Recital for the Screen.’

At the Screening Live Performance: Multi-camera production and the performing arts,

University of Southampton, UK, July 3rd-4th 2025).

‘Creating the “Canon”: Stanislav Vinaver, the Milojevićs and the Early Twentieth-Century South Slav Art Song.’

At the ‘The Expertise of the Musical Amateur’ Conference,

Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Graz, Austria, 12th-13th October 2023

 “The South Slav ‘Golden Age’ and Gender Representation in Music.”

At the 2022 Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Convention,

Chicago, USA, October 13th-14th 2022.

"Singing Translations: A Performer’s Perspective on Art Song."

Performance Studies Network Annual Conference   University of Huddersfield, 2021.

"The Yugoslav Idea in Art Song in the Early 20th Century South Slav Territories."

At the International Conference: "Yugoslav Idea in/of Music", Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, Serbia, May 25th-26th, 2019.

“Vocalising the Nation: The Balkans in the Early Twentieth Century.”

At the International Conference “The Multivalent Voice in Transcultural Music-Making”,

Centre for Advanced Studies in Music, Istanbul Technical University, April 11th-13th, 2019.

“Between Criticism and Performance: The Art Song Tradition in the South Slav Territories in the Early Twentieth Century.”

Annual Conference of the Group for Russian and Eastern European Music

British Association of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, Durham University, 2019.

“(Re)Creating the Work in Performance: A Performer’s Perspective on Changing Contexts.”

London Institute of Musical Research Study Day: The Art Song Platform – Traditions and Current Practices

Goldsmiths, University of London, 2019. (PRINCIPAL CONFERENCE ORGANISER)

“The National Song as a Performance of Femininity.” Lecture-recital at Royal Musical Association Annual Conference.

University of Bristol, September 13-15, 2018.

“Performing the ‘National’ Song in the South Slav Territories a Century Later: A Performer’s Perspective.”

Performance Studies Network Conference 2018.     Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo, July 5-8, 2018.

“Autoethnography: Linking Performance, Performance-Led and Historical Research.”

‘Beyond ‘Mesearch’: Autoethnography, Self-Reflexivity, and Personal Experience as Academic Research in Music Studies’.

Institute of Musical Research, Senate House, London, April 16-17, 2018.

“The Mother Figure and the ‘National’ Art Song: The Role of Ivanka Milojević in Miloje Milojević’s Song Opus.”

International conference ‘The Future of Music History’.  Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, 2017.

 “Kosta P. Manojlović – The Oxford Years.”

International conference ‘Kosta P. Manojlović and the Idea of Slavic and Balkan Cultural Unification (1918–1941)’

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, 2016.

Making National Song: Sopranos, their Composers and Yugoslavism (1904-1930).”

Performance Studies Network, Fourth International Conference, Bath Spa University, 2016.

 “Star persona and the national identity in the age of the empire: The role of Maja Strozzi-Pečić in Petar Konjović’s opus.”

Annual Conference of the Group for Russian and Eastern European Music

British Association of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, Durham University 2014.