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[ecrea] U2 Conference Belfast - POPVision

Wed May 16 06:51:58 GMT 2018




The U2 Conference 2018 will meet from 13-15 June, 2018, in Belfast at Queen’s University in partnerships with The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s, the National Museums of Northern Ireland, and Fitzroy Presbyterian Church.

Sessions are designed to appeal to academic and general audiences on the theme U2: POP/Vision/. As the conference theme, U2: POP/Vision/invites investigating, articulating and critiquing the guiding visions specific to U2’s Pop era of 1997-98 for their efficacy then and now, as well as welcoming an examination of popular music’s power to cast visions that shape its own narrative and construct and complicate larger cultural conversations, in which U2’s visions have long been engaged.

As Belfast marks in 2018 the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement – a major step as a peaceful agreement to seek non-violent resolutions to many conflicts in Northern Ireland, and an agreement which U2 publicly supported – the conference theme U2: POP/Vision/further communicates the interest in studying how U2’s artistic visions help or hinder peace building, resolving personal and societal conflicts, and envisioning a more just, equitable and joyful world. An important theme of the conference is thus the wider relationship between music, art and peace building.

Keynote speakers are Catherine Owens and Stuart Bailie, with presentations from special speakers Shaughn McGrath, Steve Averill, Andy Rowen, Steve Stockman, Beth Nabi, John Brewer, Fiona MacGowan, and the band December. Scholars, academics and critics coming from seven nations will deliver over 24 individual presentations, arranged into eight panels, happening over two and a half days.

Full program:http://u2conference.com/u2-con-2018-program <http://u2conference.com/u2-con-2018-program>

Registration:http://u2conference.com/u2-con-2018-registration <http://u2conference.com/u2-con-2018-registration>


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