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DrLaura Anderson

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

School of Music

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  • Lecturer/Assistant Professor
    School of Music
  • 01 716 8167
  • University College Dublin, School of Music, Newman Building Belfield Dublin 4

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Organising Committee for 'Music and Media: Directions and Aesthetics of the Digital Era' conference
    11 Jun 2026 - 12 Jun 2026
    Member
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    'The Mercurial Mr. Satie' (opens in a new tab)⁠
    16 Oct 2025
    Public talk at an evening of music and film to celebrate the work of composer Erik Satie.
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Programme Committee for Society for Musicology in Ireland annual conference
    19 Jun 2025 - 21 Jun 2025
    Member
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Teaching Excellence Award (UCD College of Arts and Humanities)
    6 Dec 2024
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Disruptive Soundscapes: 'Music in "En corps" (dir. Klapisch, 2022)'
    18 Jun 2024
    Pre-screening lecture at Alliance Française Dublin - event celebrating the Fête de la Musique in Ireland.
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Fellow, Aurora Leadership Programme
    14 Mar 2024
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Disruptive Soundscapes: 'Music in "Du côté de la côte" (dir. Varda, 1958) and "Cléo de 5 à 7" (dir. Varda, 1962)'
    12 Dec 2023
    Pre-screening lecture at Alliance Française Dublin
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Disruptive Soundscapes: 'Baroque Music in 'Les Enfants Terribles' (dir. Melville, 1950)
    4 May 2023
    Pre-screening lecture at Alliance Française Dublin
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Sounding Irishness in 'Brooklyn' (dir. Crowley, 2015)
    1 Mar 2023
    Introduction to music in the film 'Brooklyn'.
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Disruptive Soundscapes: Music and Silence in 'La Belle et la Bête' (dir. Cocteau, 1946)
    8 Dec 2022
    Pre-screening lecture at Alliance Française Dublin
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Disruptive Soundscapes: Music in 'L’Année dernière à Marienbad' (dir. Resnais, 1961)
    16 Feb 2022
    Pre-screening lecture at Alliance Française Dublin
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Disruptive Soundscapes: Music in 'Muriel ou le temps d'un retour' (dir. Resnais, 1963)
    11 Feb 2021
    Pre-screening lecture at Alliance Française Dublin
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Programme Committee for Society for Musicology in Ireland annual conference
    29 Oct 2020 - 31 Oct 2020
    Member
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Disruptive Soundscapes: The Sound Design of Jean-Luc Godard's 'Une femme est une femme' (1961)
    16 Jun 2020
    Pre-screening lecture at Alliance Française Dublin
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Disruptive Soundscapes: Music in Jacques Demy's 'Les Parapluies de Cherbourg'
    11 Feb 2020
    Pre-screening lecture at Alliance Française Dublin
  • JOURNAL/SERIES EDITED
    Reviews Editor for 'Twentieth-Century Music' (Cambridge University Press)
    1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2022
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Disruptive Soundscapes: Music in Claude Chabrol's 'Les Cousins' (1959)
    8 Oct 2019
    Public Lecture following screening at Alliance Française Dublin
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Disruptive Soundscapes: Music, Sound and Silence in 'Bande à part' (1964)
    22 Jan 2019
    Public lecture following screening at Alliance Française Dublin
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Music, Sound, and Silence in Jean Cocteau's 'La Belle et la bête'
    30 Oct 2018
    Lecture on the Irish Film Institute series 'The Sounds of Music'
  • JOURNAL/SERIES EDITED
    Journal of Film Music
    31 Jul 2015
  • PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
    Royal Musical Association
  • PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
    Society for Musicology in Ireland