Each year, the Department of Musicology at the Frost School of Music hosts a range of special events featuring renowned scholars and educators from around the world. Most notably, since 2014, the department has hosted the Dr. Robert Kelley Memorial Distinguished Lecture Series, which has sponsored the following speakers:
- 2022 Ayana Smith (Jacobs School of Music)
- 2021 Mark Katz (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- 2020 Carol Oja (Harvard University)
- 2019 Kyra Gaunt (SUNY Albany)
- 2018 Jonathan Sterne (McGill University)
- 2017 Susan McClary (Case Western Reserve University)
- 2016 Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago)
- 2015 Richard Taruskin (University of California, Berkeley)
- 2014 David Ake (Case Western Reserve University, now at the Frost School of Music)
