[ecrea] Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method - call for papers

*/Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method/*

/February 9//th //and 10//th //at UCLA/

At a time when performative resistances to exploitative mainstream 
cultural practices are increasingly under attack, punk persists as an 
important space for cultivating and curating expressive means. Punk’s 
resistant literacies and performances are often in defiance of 
institutional rigors that carve exclusionary boundaries. Yet, as punk 
celebrates its long fortieth birthday, punk’s contested annals are 
increasingly not only part of but also help shape institutional efforts 
to exceed canonic representations. Bringing together scholars, 
musicians, fans, writers, and community members, including bands, public 
intellectuals, and workshops to augment the conventional structure of 
the academic panel, /Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method /is 
teaming up with the UCLA Library Special Collections “Punk Archive” for 
hands-on, thoughtful community building within, across, and beyond the 
university. This two-day event, hosted by the UCLA Center for Musical 
Humanities, focuses on the interstices of punk and archive, using both 
as method, so as to push the boundaries of these three terms and 
practices. The conference focuses on documenting punk musicality, how 
sound repertoires and archival practices can give shape to the lived 
contours of diversity across scale, from the local to transnational, and 
what this means in terms of empowerment for research and endeavors that 
destabilize this colonial history of the academy. Punk as archival 
method curate’s resistance by contributing to these larger conversations 
via the possibilities of musical subcultures’ collaborative systemic 
interruptions.

We invite submissions from all punk scholars, public intellectuals, 
music writers, resistant historians, critical students, misfit 
theorizers, queer thinkers, feminists, archivists, freaky writers, and 
anyone interested in the ways in which punk’s resistant musical 
literacies are protected, preserved, and circulated as well as the 
stakes of these practices. Papers, or alternative format presentations, 
may address any aspect of “curating resistance” and “punk as archival 
method,” such as punk identities that have been made marginal--queer, 
trans, punks of color, disability, women, among others--and expressive 
modes, intersectional oppression and inscriptive methods of resistance, 
the politics of punk preservation, critical approaches to punk media, 
dismantling white supremacy in archives or in punk, punk pedagogies, 
hidden transcripts and markets, border/genre transcending and crossing, 
resistant literacies and DIY genealogies, tensions between punk and 
institutions, punk as a space for historical presence/presents and 
futurities, and punk as space for the creation/maintenance of 
alternative genealogies, unconventional families, and community dialogue.

Please submit proposals via a single Word document [labelled last name 
first name.docx] to (PunkUCLA2018 /at/ gmail.com) by *November 15, 2017*. 
Individual presenters should submit a paper title, 250-word abstract, 
and author information including full name, institutional affiliation, 
email address, and a 50-word bio. Alternative-to-paper proposals should 
specify the style and logistics of presentation. Please indicate any 
audio, visual, or other needs for the presentation. For more information 
about the conference, please see the conference website 
<https://cmh.schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/> or send email inquiries to Jessica 
Schwartz, conference organizer and program committee chair, at 
(schwartz /at/ humnet.ucla.edu) <mailto:(schwartz /at/ humnet.ucla.edu)>, and Candace 
Hansen, conference and program logistics/community outreach, at 
(candacelhansen /at/ ucla.edu) <mailto:(candacelhansen /at/ ucla.edu)>.

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