Selected Conferences

Solo Presentations

2024- “Heroic Madness in Franz Liszt’s Tasso: Lamento e Trionfo.” Music, Mind and Affect Symposium, Concordia University of Edmonton.

2023- “‘Goin’ to the Big Oil Show:’ Celebrating Oil in Song.” American Musicological Society, Denver, Co.

2023- “‘Goin’ to the Big Oil Show:’ Celebrating Oil in Song.” Critical Perspectives on Petrosonics, London, UK.

2022-“Poison or Salve? Music and Melancholy in Robert Schumann’s ‘Aus den Hebräischen Gesängen.’ Canadian University Music Society, Acadia University, NS.

2019-“Gender Ambiguity in the Labour of Great Men: The Case of Franz Liszt’s Tasso: Lamento e Trionfo.” Canadian University Music Society, in conjunction with Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia.

2018-“Franz Liszt’s Mazeppa and the Aesthetics of Suffering.” Canadian University Music Society, MacEwan University, AB.

2018-“Franz Liszt’s Mazeppa and the Aesthetics of Suffering.” Pacific Northwest Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society, University of British Columbia.

2016-“Elites at the Edge of the World: Annie York Secord and Arts Patronage in Early Edmonton.” Canadian University Music Society, in conjunction with Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Calgary.

2015-“Nature and the Construction of National Identity in Jean Coulthard’s The Pines of Emily Carr.” Canadian University Music Society, in conjunction with Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa.

2015-“How Do You Spell That? Never Mind, Just Wear This Number Around Your Neck. Lucie Idlout’s ‘E5-770’ and the Struggle Against Power.” NCounters Graduate Student Conference, University of Alberta.

2014-“Boundary Transgressions and the Cyborg Body in Björk’s Music Video ‘All is Full of Love.’” NCounters Graduate Student Conference, University of Alberta.

2013-“Finding the Wanderer: Incorporating Textual Elements in the Analysis of Liszt’s First Book of Années de Pèlerinage.” Canadian University Music Society, in conjunction with Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Victoria.

2011-“‘Conrad’s Divided Self:’ Verdi’s Vision of the Byronic Hero in Il Corsaro,” Canadian University Music Society, Mount Allison University.

2010-“Form and ‘Expression’ in Schumann’s Manfred Overture,” Pacific Northwest Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society, University of Calgary.

Co-Authored Presentations

2023-Deaville, James and Jamie Meyers-Riczu, “‘The Hills Are Alive…’: Liszt, the ‘Alpine Sublime,’ and Geomusical Creativity.” Canadian University Music Society, Laval University.

2021-Meyers-Riczu, Jamie and Morteza Abedinifard. “Future Fire: Liszt’s Writings on Program Music.” Canadian University Music Society in conjunction with Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Alberta.

2016-Luyk, Sean, Jamie Meyers-Riczu, Mary Ingraham, and David Gramit.“Resounding Culture: Recontextualizing Resources for Histories of Music in Canada” Canadian Association of Music Librarians, in conjunction with Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Calgary.

Co-Authored Roundtable Discussions

2019-Meyers-Riczu, Jamie, Morteza Abedinifard, Caitlin MacRae, Kaitlyn Grant, and Sean Luyk “Resounding Culture/Sounds of Home Graduate Student Roundtable Association of Music Librarians, in conjunction with Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia.