Graduate Research Colloquia: Dr Rebekah Okpoti (Liverpool Hope University)

'Domesticity and The Girly Organist'

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Abstract

Interventions into Domesticity through The Girly Organist Project. This book project considers spirituality and Domesticity through creative practice interventions. Anne Lister, John Ruskin, Adelaide Watt & Finding Home present new insights into Domesticity. 

Biography

Rebekah Okpoti's research focuses on Musicology, Creative Practice, Culture and Librarianship and how they work through History and with other fields.  It includes Sonic Installation Art, Domesticity, Composition and the Pipe Organ within a variety of communities. Much of her work is interdisciplinary and looks at the relationships between culture and practice across time through platforms such as The Girly Organist  which explores hyper-femininity, feminine identity and ritual in church music.

<speaks> | Tomomi Adachi

Adachi will talk about his wide-ranging practice spanning music, poetry and visual art. Topics will include human voice, composition, improvisation, performance technique (and its absence), site-specific work, technology and artificial intelligence. The talk may also include a short performance designed for the online format.

Brother Tree Sound

A journey through British folk music.

The Chamber Concerts: Beethoven with the Neruda Quartet I

2026 Tillett Debut Artists the Neruda Quartet perform string quartets by Mozart and Beethoven.

Phantom Melodies and Tangerine Trees: A voyage through the psychedelic musical experience

Using musical illusions, perceptual experiments and examples from The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Tchaikovsky, Steve Reich and beyond, Prof. Milton Mermikides explores how music can evoke altered perceptions of time and self, the blending of senses and moments of transcendence, and why music relies on the very same perceptual mechanisms for its extraordinary power.

Migration, Performance & Policy seminar

From Photos to Forensics: Borders and Fatalities in Calais, Italy, and the Mediterranean Sea

Book launch - ‘The Networked Court: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Medieval Court Cultures’

Presentations by editor Karl Kügle and authors Jane Gilbert, Christophe Masson, and Helen Swift