9 March 2022 (online): Rhodes University, South Africa – ‘Free improvisation, democracy and difference’ (guest lecture)

14-15 January 2022 (online): ‘Rethinking Participatory Processes Through Music’ (conference), University of Huddersfield

5 March 2021 (online): Book launch for Finding Democracy in Music, with guest respondents Prof Marie-Hélène Benoit-Otis and Prof Sarah Collins, hosted by the Centre for Arts and Languages (CRAL), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

5/6 November 2020 (online): ‘Music and political democratisation in the late twentieth century’ (conference), University of Huddersfield

7 October 2020 (online): Royal Northern College of Music – ‘Practising egalitarianism: small ensembles, free improvisation and democracy’ (guest lecture)

4 February 2020: Royal Birmingham Conservatoire – ‘On the undemocratic – in music, and elsewhere’ (guest lecture)

28-29 November 2019: ‘Arts and Models of Democracy in the Post-Authoritarian Iberian Peninsula’ (conference), University of Huddersfield

20-21 June 2019: ‘Music and democracy: beyond metaphors and idealization’ (study days), University of Huddersfield

21 March 2019: Utrecht University – ‘Unequal equalities – group music-making as deliberative democracy’ (guest lecture)

4 February 2019: Guildhall School of Music and Drama – ‘Unequal equalities – group music-making as deliberative democracy’ (guest lecture)

23 November 2018: Rainy Days Festival, Luxembourg – ‘New music and the realities of democracy’ (paper for festival conference)

17 October 2018: Kirklees Local Democracy Week, Huddersfield – ‘Making Music Democratically: Equality, Difference, Participation’ (public talk, with Dr Elizabeth Dobson and Dr Toby Martin)

14-15 October 2018: Transit New Music Festival, Leuven, Belgium – ‘Democracy and composers’ and ‘Democracy and ensembles’ (two public talks), plus premiere of Bryn Harrison’s collaboratively-composed piece for De 2de Adem First Light.

13 September 2018: Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association, University of Bristol – ‘Democracy in action? Audience participation as community organising’ (Peter Le Huray keynote lecture)

22 July 2018: Finding Democracy in Music, Darmstadt International Summer Course, Darmstadt, Germany – conference organiser (with Liza Lim)

22 July 2018: Finding Democracy in Music, Darmstadt International Summer Course, Darmstadt, Germany – ‘Imagining democracy in music: lessons from the past’ (conference paper)

2 May 2018: University of Liverpool – ‘How democratic is indeterminate music?’ (guest lecture)

24 January 2018: University of York – ‘The most democratic of composers? Elliott Carter and the idea of democracy’ (guest lecture)

10 November 2017: Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Rochester, New York – ‘What kind of democrat was Elliott Carter?’ (conference paper)

12 October 2017: University of Manchester – ‘The most democratic of composers? Elliott Carter and the idea of democracy’ (guest lecture)

13 September 2017: Tenth Biennial International Conference on Music since 1900, University of Surrey – ‘The most democratic of composers? Elliott Carter and the idea of democracy’ (conference paper)

4-5 September 2017: Finding Democracy in Music – a Symposium, University of Huddersfield – conference organiser

7-8 July 2017: Music and Socialism since 1917 (conference), University of Nottingham – member of programme committee and project team

1 July 2017: Performing Indeterminacy – An International Conference – ‘How democratic is indeterminate music?’ (conference paper)

7 June 2017: University of Warsaw – ‘What can democracy mean for music?’ (guest lecture)

26 October 2016: University of Cambridge – ‘What can democracy mean for music?’ (guest lecture)

5 November 2015: Musiques en démocratie : acteurs, institutions, pratiques, discours, Philharmonie de Paris – ‘Musical models of democracy’ (conference paper)

28 October 2015: University of Birmingham – ‘What can democracy mean for music?’ (guest lecture)

7 September 2015: FOR CRYIN’ OUT LOUD: Music and Politics (conference), Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Utrecht – ‘What can democracy mean for music?’ (keynote lecture)