PSN USA and Canada: Virtual Conference
Sunday 5th December 2021
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Panel 1: Punk People
13:00-14:00 (1:00-2:00 EST)
Program Chair: Ellen Bernhard
1. John Charles Goshert – “You (plural): Political Configurations of Punk’s DIY Ethos”
2. Chanel Prince – Afropunk
3. Anthony Moll – More Than Aesthetics: On the Unexpectedly Punk Ethic of Rupi Kaur’s Poetry
Panel 2: Punk Politics
14:15-15:15 (2:15-3:15 EST)
Program Chair: Nico Rosario
1. Sophia Martinez-Abbud – The Chicano Punk Narratives of Oscar Acosta and Richard Rodriguez
2. Ellen Bernhard – “Waive your rights like you just don’t care”: Culture jamming conspiracy theories in Bad Religion’s “Do the Paranoid Style”
3. Antonio Pineda & Jorge David Fernández Gómez - “No Way: Eskorbuto for PM!” Punk Music and Anarchist Ideology in Eskorbuto.
Panel 3: Punk Places
15:30-16:30 (3:30-4:30 EST)
Program Chair: Jessica Schwartz
1. Kimon Keramidas – Mapping a Movement: People, Places, and Punk in a Hardcore Gazetteer
2. Mike McDowell – “Reinventing Axl Rose”: Gender, Performativity, and Identity in Gainesville’s Punk Scene
3. Dawson Barrett – Punks in Peoria
4. Christopher Gunter - The Chronotype of Punk: Activism in Space and Time
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