[ecrea] U2 Conference Belfast - POPVision

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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