Karen McAulay
Performing Arts Librarian
Activities
- 2024
Redressing the Balance: Getting Historically Under-Represented Composers and Contemporary Environmental Concerns into Library Stock
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
16 Apr 2024Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly non-academic audience (e.g. for the general public, community or industry)
From Magic Lantern to Microphone: the Scottish Music Publishers and Pedagogues inspiring Hearts and Minds through Song
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
29 Jan 2024Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › External Performance
Good morning Britain
Karen McAulay (Project lead)
16 Jan 2024Engagement activity: Business, enterprise and other activities › Media article or broadcast
- 2023
From Magic Lantern to Microphone: the Scottish Music Publishers and Pedagogues inspiring Hearts and Minds through Song.
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
23 Nov 2023Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly academic audience (e.g. at an academic conference)
The Glories of Scotland in Picture and Song: compiling a book with the 1951 Festival of Britain in mind
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
8 Nov 2023Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly non-academic audience (e.g. for the general public, community or industry)
Oxford University Press (Publisher)
Karen McAulay (Peer reviewer)
13 Aug 2023Engagement activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
SGSAH Summer School 2023
Karen McAulay (Organiser)
20 Jun 2023Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
Reading and Book Circulation, 1600-1800
Karen McAulay (Participant)
17 Apr 2023Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an external workshop, masterclass, seminar or training course
Review of Scottish Culture (Journal)
Karen McAulay (Editorial board member)
25 Mar 2023Engagement activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
- 2022
EDI [Equality, Diversity and Inclusion] in the Whittaker Library
Karen McAulay (Organiser)
11 Aug 2022Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an external workshop, masterclass, seminar or training course
AHRC Peer Review panel (External organisation)
Karen McAulay (Reviewer)
26 Jul 2022Engagement activity: Membership › Membership of network
Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity: publishing music in Scotland, 1880-1950
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
21 Jul 2022Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly non-academic audience (e.g. for the general public, community or industry)
Diversifying Collections
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
15 Jun 2022Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly non-academic audience (e.g. for the general public, community or industry)
The Wighton Collection, Dundee
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
11 Jun 2022Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly non-academic audience (e.g. for the general public, community or industry)
- 2021
Scottish songs and dances 'preserved in their native simplicity' and 'humbly dedicated': paratext in improbable places
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
17 Mar 2021Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly academic audience (e.g. at an academic conference)
The Classic Ground of our Celtic Homer: Alexander Campbell’s Song-Collecting Tour
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
16 Mar 2021Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly academic audience (e.g. at an academic conference)
- 2020
Late Summer in the Hebrides: Alexander Campbell's Song Collecting for Albyn's Anthology
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
17 Nov 2020Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly academic audience (e.g. at an academic conference)
Scottish Song-Collector Alexander Campbell and his Ethnomusicological Exploits
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
18 Oct 2020Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly non-academic audience (e.g. for the general public, community or industry)
'All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order': musical resemblances over the Border
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
10 Oct 2020Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly academic audience (e.g. at an academic conference)
Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs Conference
Karen McAulay (Chair)
10 Oct 2020 → 11 Oct 2020Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
The Cinderella of Stationers’ Hall: Music (and Metadata) in Georgian Legal Deposit Libraries
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
8 Sept 2020Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly non-academic audience (e.g. for the general public, community or industry)
- 2019
Bagpipes, Ossian, Gaelic and Tartan: Sir John MacGregor Murray and Gaelic Culture
Karen McAulay (Invited speaker)
20 Jul 2019Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly non-academic audience (e.g. for the general public, community or industry)
- 2018
Traditional Folk Song
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
10 Nov 2018Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
‘A Scattered Heritage: Britain’s Georgian Legal Deposit Music’
Karen McAulay (Invited speaker)
18 Oct 2018Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly academic audience (e.g. at an academic conference)
Royal Musical Association 54th Annual Conference
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
13 Sept 2018 → 15 Sept 2018Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
IAML International Congress 2018
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
22 Jul 2018 → 27 Jul 2018Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
Romantic Song Network
Karen McAulay (Member of programme committee)
23 Jun 2018Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an external workshop, masterclass, seminar or training course
EAERN
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
6 Jun 2018 → 7 Jun 2018Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an external workshop, masterclass, seminar or training course
Musica Scotica 2018 Conference
Karen McAulay (Organiser)
20 Apr 2018 → 21 Apr 2018Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
From PGCert to PG Certainty: Enabling the Distance Learner
Karen McAulay (Invited speaker)
8 Apr 2018Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly non-academic audience (e.g. for the general public, community or industry)
Pathways, outputs and impacts: the 'Claimed from Stationers Hall' music project takes wings
Karen McAulay (Invited speaker)
8 Apr 2018Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly non-academic audience (e.g. for the general public, community or industry)
IAML (UK & Ireland) Annual Study Weekend 2018
Karen McAulay (Invited speaker)
6 Apr 2018 → 8 Apr 2018Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
Claimed From Stationers' Hall Workshop
Karen McAulay (Organiser)
26 Mar 2018Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an external workshop, masterclass, seminar or training course
From PGCert to PG Certainty: Enabling the Distance Learner
Karen McAulay (Invited speaker)
23 Mar 2018Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly non-academic audience (e.g. for the general public, community or industry)
Pedagogies, Practices and the Future of Folk Music in Higher Education
Karen McAulay (Participant)
18 Jan 2018 → 20 Jan 2018Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
- 2017
University of Otago Centre for the Book Annual Research Seminar
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
28 Nov 2017 → 1 Dec 2017Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
Voluntary Arts Festival 2017
Karen McAulay (Participant)
13 May 2017Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an external workshop, masterclass, seminar or training course
Musica Scotica 2017
Karen McAulay (Organiser)
22 Apr 2017Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
Cultures of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Karen McAulay (Invited speaker) & Alice Little (Organiser)
17 Feb 2017Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an external workshop, masterclass, seminar or training course
- 2016
ISME
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
29 Jul 2016Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
Collections within the Collection
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
10 Jun 2016Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
Musica Scotica Conference 2016
Karen McAulay (Member of programme committee)
23 Apr 2016Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
IAML (UK & Ireland) Annual Study Weekend 2016
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
3 Apr 2016Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
IAML (UK & Ireland) Annual Study Weekend 2016
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
1 Apr 2016Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an external workshop, masterclass, seminar or training course
British Library Labs
Karen McAulay (Participant)
26 Feb 2016Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an external workshop, masterclass, seminar or training course
- 2015
Fiddle Books By the Dozen
Karen McAulay (Invited speaker)
21 Nov 2015Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly non-academic audience (e.g. for the general public, community or industry)
An Entertainment Altogether New: a celebration of Edinburgh's First Musical Festival
Karen McAulay (Invited speaker)
Nov 2015Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly non-academic audience (e.g. for the general public, community or industry)
Common Threads: From Sacred to Secular, Ancient to (nearly) Modern
Karen McAulay (Invited speaker)
12 Oct 2015Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly non-academic audience (e.g. for the general public, community or industry)
Fiddle Books by the Dozen
Karen McAulay (Invited speaker)
Oct 2015Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly non-academic audience (e.g. for the general public, community or industry)
The Importance of the Wighton and Jimmy Shand Collections
Karen McAulay (Invited speaker)
Oct 2015Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly non-academic audience (e.g. for the general public, community or industry)
Robert Burns Song Symposium
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
18 Sept 2015Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an external workshop, masterclass, seminar or training course
Music in Nineteenth Century Britain Conference
Karen McAulay (Member of programme committee)
8 Jul 2015 → 10 Jul 2015Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
RMA Study Day
Karen McAulay (Participant)
15 Jun 2015Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
Musica Scotica 2015
Karen McAulay (Member of programme committee)
Apr 2015Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
- 2014
Project Presentation Showcase
Karen McAulay (Participant)
10 Dec 2014Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an external workshop, masterclass, seminar or training course
Understanding Scotland Musically
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
25 Oct 2014Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
Scotland’s Collections: the Digital Humanities
Karen McAulay (Participant)
12 Sept 2014Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an external workshop, masterclass, seminar or training course
Musica Scotica Conference 2014
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
26 Apr 2014Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
IAML (UK & Ireland) Annual Study Weekend 2014
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
12 Apr 2014Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
RMA Scottish Chapter Colloquium
Karen McAulay (Participant)
19 Mar 2014Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
- 2013
Musica Scotica Conference 2013
Karen McAulay (Organiser)
27 Apr 2013Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
Musica Scotica Conference 2013
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
27 Apr 2013Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
- 2012
Musica Scotica 2012
Karen McAulay (Organiser)
28 Apr 2012Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
Musica Scotica 2012
Karen McAulay (Speaker)
28 Apr 2012Engagement activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in an academic conference, workshop or symposium
- 2011
‘Minstrels and Metaphors: the hidden messages in early 19th Century Celtic song collections’
Karen McAulay (Invited speaker)
24 Jul 2011 → 29 Jul 2011Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly non-academic audience (e.g. for the general public, community or industry)
- 2010
‘1810-1825: From antiquarian to creative artist, as exemplified by Scottish song collectors’
Karen McAulay (Invited speaker)
2 Jun 2010Engagement activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly academic audience (e.g. at an academic conference)