*CFP* "GLOBAL PUNK", PUNK SCHOLARS NETWORK ANNUAL VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Punk Scholars Network Annual Conference

Global Punk

12tg-19th December

Virtual Conference

A virtual, online, global conference spanning eight days is being brought together by the Punk Scholars Network – be a part of it. Punk is a truly global phenomenon that manifests in myriad ways in different scenes, political regimes, cultural contexts and individual experiences. Punk is many things to many people and seldom remains static over a lifetime. Increased globalisation, changes in connectivity and technology, and shifts in both capitalism and populism have impacted punk for better and worse. International and intranational punk scenes and connections are growing and finding commonality and conflict through music, education, mutual aid, performance, political activism and human behaviours. The global Coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the differences people face accessing resources and how governments respond. How have, and how will, various local punk scenes respond to this crisis, and what does their response tell us about punk as a global phenomenon?

*CFP* "PUNK AND THE SACRED", THE PUNK SCHOLAR NETWORK SYMPOSIUM

The Punk Scholars Network will be hosting a 1 -2 day symposium at Mansions of the Future (Lincoln, UK) on the 28th and 29th November 2019 on the theme of ‘Punk and the Sacred’ as part of the Punk Scholar’s Network’s series of themed symposiums.

We welcome papers, innovative presentations, panels, short film screenings, sound walks and workshops on, but not limited to the following:

• The sacred sound of punk 
• The sacrality of record collecting 
• The incorporation of punk (music, ethics, dogma, rituals) into sacred ceremonies 
• The incorporation of religion (variously understood) within punk practice(s) 
• The development and influence of religious based music / punk labels 
• Fandom as worship 
• The ritualization of sacrality within / of punk 
• Hagiography of punk ‘icons’ 
• The (possible) gendered nature of punk and the sacred

*CFP* RESEARCHING SUBCULTURES AND AESTHETICS POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM: ALTERNATIVE VOICES IN ACADEMIA

Researching Subcultures and Aesthetics Postgraduate Symposium: Alternative Voices in Academia

Date: 10 September 2019

Venue: National University of Ireland, Galway

Punk Scholars Network invites proposals for presentations as part of our postgraduate symposium on subcultures and aesthetics at National University of Ireland, Galway. This symposium will explore how subcultures connect to aesthetics and create what Pierre Bourdieu calls the space of possibles, a space for radical politics to be formed through the means of artistic productions. From do-it-yourself methods of street art to the shock-effect of Dadaist and punk attitudes in different time-places, the close relationship between subcultures and aesthetics continues to reflect the turbulences of our political atmosphere. From music and literature to cinema and other art forms, this symposium will offer a platform for postgraduate students who wish to share their research, explore critical approaches and analyse the complexities of the relationship between subcultures and aesthetics.

This is also a great opportunity for those of you who would like to bring academic research and subcultural environments together, share the potential contradictions that may arise from this togetherness and explore alternative research methods. Representatives of the Punk Scholars Network have kindly agreed to attend the symposium as panel discussants.

*CFP* “RESEARCHING SUBCULTURES AND AESTHETICS POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM: ALTERNATIVE VOICES IN ACADEMIA”

Researching Subcultures and Aesthetics Postgraduate Symposium: Alternative Voices in Academia

10 September 2019

National University of Ireland, Galway

Keynotes by representatives of the Punk Scholars Network

Punk Scholars Network invites proposals for presentations as part of our postgraduate symposium on subcultures and aesthetics at National University of Ireland, Galway. This symposium will explore how subcultures connect to aesthetics and createwhat Pierre Bourdieu calls the space of possibles, a space for radical politics to be formed through the means of artistic productions. From do-it-yourself methods of street art to the shock-effect of Dadaist and punk attitudes in different time-places, the close relationship between subcultures and aesthetics continues to reflect the turbulences of our political atmosphere. From music and literatureto cinema and other art forms, this symposium will offer a platform for postgraduate students who wish to share their research, explore critical approaches and analyse the complexities of the relationship between subcultures and aesthetics.

*CFP* "THE PUNK READER: TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE LOCAL TO THE GLOBAL", EDITED BOOK, PUNK SCHOLARS NETWORK

Following the groundbreaking publication of The Punk Reader: Transmissions from the Local to the Global (now in its second edition through Intellect and the Punk Scholars Network), the series editors would like to invite proposals for a second volume in the book series, ‘Global Punk’, to be published in early 2020.

The publication will be part of an exciting collaboration between Intellect and the Punk Scholars Network, a partnership that has seen the development of a Punk Scholars Network imprint.

The ‘Global Punk’ series editors – Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Alastair Gordon and Paula Guerra – are seeking contributions from a range of interdisciplinary areas, including cultural studies, musicology, ethnography, art and design, history and the social sciences, for an edited volume on post-2000 global punk ‘scenes’, reflecting upon the notion of origin, music(s), identity, membership and circulation.

*CFP* "PUNK PEDAGOGIES" SYMPOSIUM

We will be hosting a 1-2 day symposium at Mansions of the Future in Lincoln (UK) on the 4th and 5th of July 2019 on the subject of punk pedagogies as part of the Punk Scholars’ Network’s series of themed symposiums.

Since 1997 saw the publication of “Never Mind the Tagmemics, Where’s the Sex Pistols” (CCC 48.1 pp 9 -29) there has been an increasing interest in the way in which the ethics, attitudes and people of punk rock can inform, shape, critique and revolutionise teaching pedagogies. In part this is due to the rising number of punkademics and punk teachers, but it is so much more than that. It is also because of the value for education in approaches that centre on philosophies such as Do-It-Yourself, creativity and resistance; a framework of enquiry and a toolkit that potentially helps take cynicism to critique. In short, punk can offer pedagogical tools for interrogating the world around us. However it is a two way street, and punk can learn much from newly emerging pedagogical ideas and approaches within secondary, further and higher education. This 1-2 day symposium aims to provide a space to explore, in a supportive environment, those interactions and lessons. It seeks to ask questions such as what can be gained from using punk tools and approaches as a pedagogical approach within ‘the classroom’? What can experiences and innovations in ‘the classroom’ offer to the continuing development and learning of punks and the subculture of punk rock?

*CFP* "MIXING POP AND POLITICS", CHAPTER PROPOSALS

History provides us with ample instances of the power of popular music to speak to, through, and against various political moments. The contemporary socio-political situation of the late-2010s also offers countless opportunities to explore how popular music revisits, reconstitutes, rewrites and reconciles itself to this past. This current context necessitates an awareness of the complex position of popular music, and the new directions it must negotiate, as music responds to the shifting paradigms of power in which we currently find ourselves.

This collection aims to explore the complex politics of resistance, subversion, containment and reconciliation in popular music in both contemporary and historic formations. Following the IASPM-ANZ 2017 conference on this theme, and building on earlier scholarship mapping popular music’s entanglement with politics (Frith 1983; Bennett, Frith and Grossberg 2005; Cloonan and Garafolo 2009), here we ask what it means to mix popular music with the political in the current socio-political paradigm.