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PROGRAMME
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM EST
Moderator: Nico Rosario, Social Science & Public Policy, King's College London (Los Angeles)
Michael Valania, The Full-Time Dreamer Project (Sacramento), No Future for You: Futures Thinking as a Direct Action Activism Approach
Michael Valania is the founder of The Full-Time Dreamer Project, a strategic foresight media organization and consultancy focused on creatively envisioning the future to prepare organizations to serve their community by thinking through, generating insights on, and activating leadership to get ahead of change. His work has helped organizations from public health to voter education media sustainably and effectively grow their community impact.
Ellen Bernhard, Department of Communication, Graphic Design & Multimedia, Georgian Court University (Lakewood, New Jersey), “Epitaph Records and Insta-Activism in Contemporary Punk Rock Spaces”
Ellen Bernhard is an Assistant Professor of Digital Communication at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey. Her research interests include contemporary punk scenes in online spaces, and issues of punk autonomy as scenes contend with the influence of social media and popular culture along the way. Her book, Contemporary Punk Rock Communities: Scenes of Inclusion and Dedication was published in 2019.
Olivier Berube-Sasseville, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), “Skinheads de France : Les années d’acier (1983-1993).”
I hold a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in history, respectively from the Université du Québec in Rimouski (UQAR) and Université du Québec in Montréal (UQAM). I have just finished my PhD at UQAM. My research has focused on the far right in France as I have written my master’s degree thesis on an ultranationalist student movement called Groupe Union Défense (GUD) and my PhD dissertation on Ordre Nouveau, a neofascist movement within which the National Front was first created. I’m now moving on to to complete a postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre national de recherche scientifique (CNRS), in Paris. I would join the research group PIND: Punk is not Dead. Une histoire du punk en France (1976-2016), hopefully next year, in order to work on the French skinhead scene of the 80’s and early 90’s.
Marian Phillips, Independent Scholar, - “Activists, Punks, Freaks, and Rebels”: Queercore’s Grassroots Activism from 1980 to the Present
Marian Phillips is an independent scholar dedicated to the development of LGBTQIA+ history. They are a recent graduate of Sarah Lawrence College’s Women’s History graduate program where they successfully completed their MA thesis titled “Unmasking Pre-Stonewall Gay Liberation Activism: Alfred C. Kinsey’s Enduring Influence on the Mattachine Society, 1940-1970.” During their academic career, they have uncovered the largely under-represented history of the Queercore punk movement in the United States. With their passion for activism and appreciation for music as a social force, they have published and presented several articles on the topic. Marian currently works for Alternative Press magazine as a freelance writer while working towards completing their current book project on the Queercore movement.
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EST
Moderator: Ellen Bernhard, Department of Communication, Graphic Design & Multimedia, Georgian Court University (Lakewood, New Jersey)
Ryan Kerr, English, University of Florida, “‘Grab It and Change It, It’s Yours’: Approaching Inflammable Material after Ulysses”
Ryan Kerr is an English Ph.D. student at the University of Florida. He holds an M.A. in English from the University of Virginia and a B.A. in English with a minor in political science from the University of Arkansas. Kerr has work forthcoming in James Joyce Quarterly and Joyce Studies Annual. His writing has appeared in Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies.
Peter Woods, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, “Unearthing the Punishing Pedagogies of DIY Venues”
Dr. Peter J. Woods is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education and a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research centers on what and how people learn through creative production with an emphasis on DIY culture and noise music. He is also an active musician and runs FTAM productions, a DIY label and concert promotion organization. He lives in Milwaukee, WI.
Morgan Bimm & Andi Schwartz, School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, York University (Toronto), “The Only Good Boys: How PUP Punk’d Canadian Music”
Morgan Bimm is a PhD candidate in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies at York University in Toronto. Her research interests include music fandom and youth cultures, and her dissertation project considers the role of girl culture in the cultural mainstreaming of 2000s indie rock. Morgan has presented her research at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and international conferences including the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) and PopCon, held annually at Seattle’s Museum of Popular Culture. Her work appears in several anthologies, including a co-authored chapter on Carly Rae Jepsen in the 2019 collection The Spaces and Places of Canadian Popular Culture.
Dr. Andi Schwartz is a visiting scholar in the School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at York University. Her research interests include femme subjectivities, critical femininities, online subcultures and counterpublics, and radical softness. Her academic work has been published in Psychology & Sexuality, First Monday, Feral Feminisms, Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology, and the anthology On the Politics of Ugliness, edited by Sara Rodrigues and Ela Przybylo. She also co-authored a chapter on Carly Rae Jepsen for the anthology, The Spaces and Places of Canadian Pop Culture, edited by Neil Shyminsky and Victoria Kannen.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
Moderator: Daniel Makagon, College of Communication, DePaul University (Chicago)
Zack Furness, Communications, Penn State University (Allegheny), “Israeli Punk and Radical Politics in the 90s”
Dr. Zack Furness is Associate Professor of Communications at Penn State University’s Greater Allegheny campus. He is the author of One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility (2010), the editor of Punkademics (2012), and the co-editor of The NFL: Critical and Cultural Perspectives (2014). He was a longtime contributing editor to Bad Subjects, one of the pioneering publications on the internet, and he has also contributed to a number of scholarly books, journals, zines, websites, and magazines, including Punk Planet, Bitch, Tropics of Meta, Pittsburgh Magazine, The Battleground and Souciant. Zack spent the better part of two decades playing in punk bands, most recently in Barons (Pittsburgh). You can find him ranting on Twitter at @punkademic.
David Pearson, Music Department, Lehman College (New York), “Extreme Hardcore Punk’s Dystopian Projections”
David Pearson is the author of Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is a music historian, saxophonist/composer, and educator. David is an adjunct assistant professor in the music department at Lehman College, and earned his Ph.D. in musicology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. As a saxophonist, David has performed modernist and contemporary classical, modal jazz, punk, rap, and more, and currently plays in the Afrofunk band Digital Diaspora.
Tyler Howie, Music Theory Department, University of Texas (Austin), “The 'Twinkle' Schema in Midwest Emo and the Emo Revival”
Tyler Howie is a Ph.D. student in music theory at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include timbre and aesthetics in American post-punk musics (emo and pop punk in particular), genre theory, and music and protest. He has presented research at conferences including the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory (2020) and the International Conference on Minimalist Music (2017), and he recently co-authored an article with Matt Chiu on rhythmic voice-leading relationships in the music of Steve Reich (2020). Tyler received his MM in music theory from Boston University and his BM in music theory, with a concentration in percussion, from Temple University.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM EST
Moderator: Jessica Schwartz, Musicology Department, UCLA (Los Angeles)
Runchao Liu, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, “Fried Rice and L.A. Punk: A Punk Historiography through Chinatown and Little Tokyo”
Runchao Liu is a PhD Candidate in Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Liu is an interdisciplinary music scholar specializing in critical and cultural media studies and her scholarship focuses on transhistorical, multisensory, and political potential of rock music through a comparative and transnational approach. She is currently on the University of Minnesota’s Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship to complete her project on Asian American rock music, particularly how women and queer rock musicians debunk Asian American apoliticism and redefine “American” radicalism and musical activism. Liu has published and forthcoming articles in Cinéma & Cie: International Film Studies Journal, Current Musicology, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture.
Robert Jakubovic, Professor of English and Literature Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, "Becoming Punk in Steel Town U.S.A.: Five Songs that Changed Everything"
A writing teacher for over twenty-five years, Bob Jakubovic uses the lessons punk has taught him in his online and traditional college courses daily. His punk scholarship is centered around his growing up in Youngstown, Ohio, during deindustrialization in the mid-to-late 1970s. He considers the opening side of Lou Reed's Growing Up in Public to be the best punk music ever recorded.
Penrose Allphin, University of Massachusetts Amherst (master's student), “Trans Punk Desire in Lou Sullivan’s Diaries"
Penrose M. Allphin is a second-year master’s student in music theory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Their research interests include queer musicology and musical and medical trans narratives.
8:00 PM - whenever EST
Closing Reception + Happy Hour
Asynchronous Content:
Daniel Makagon in conversation with David Ensminger (Lee College, English & Humanities)
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David Ensminger is a trained folklorist, punk historian, English Instructor, musician, and writer. He is the author of four books covering both American roots music and punk rock history—Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2011), Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins (Univ. of Texas Press, 2013), Left of the Dial: Conversations with Punk Icons (PM Press, 2013), Mavericks of Sound: Conversations with the Artists Who Shaped Indie and Roots Music(Rowman and Littlefield, 2014), and The Politics of Punk (Rowman and Littlefield, Jan 2016). His work has also appeared in Thirsty Ear, Magyar Taraj, Artcore, Trust, Maximum Rock'n'Roll, M/C Journal, Journal of Popular Music Studies, and Houston Press, among others.
Daniel Makagon is a professor in the College of Communication at DePaul University. He is author of Underground: The Subterranean Culture of Punk House Shows (Microcosm, 2015), Where the Ball Drops: Days and Nights in Times Square (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and co-author with Mark Neumann of Recording Culture: Audio Documentary and the Ethnographic Experience (Sage, 2008). Makagon has also published articles on guerrilla art, DIY punk touring, community, and urban life in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Punk & Post Punk, Southern Communication Journal, Journal of Communication Inquiry, and Text & Performance Quarterly. And he contributes regularly to Razorcake fanzine.
Jessica Schwartz the Punkast Series, with guest producer Tequila Mockingbird.
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Jessica A. Schwartz is an associate professor of Musicology in the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA. Schwartz works on musical and multi-sensorial modalities of resistance to various forms of dominance. Schwartz has published in various journals, such as American Quarterly, Punk & Post-Punk, and Music & Politics and is working on a large-scale game-based educational project, drawing on punk method. Schwartz’s first monograph, Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences, will be published by Duke University Press in 2021.
Tequila Mockingbird is the founder and curator of the Punk Museum, which has branches in Los Angeles, New York, London, and other international locales. A staple in the formative LA scene, Mockingbird has promoted punk artists and musicians, such as Black Flag, that now have wide acclaim. She also boasts a wide range of work, including with New Wave Theater, which is still on the television network, Nightflight, Tequila TV on public access, as a production coordinator for the Suzi Quatro documentary “Suzi Q,” and in numerous musical outfits, most recently with Bad Habits.