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[ecrea] CFP: Building the Scenes? Fan/zines in Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe

Tue Nov 06 10:35:02 GMT 2018





*/Building the Scenes?
Fan/zines in Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe
before and after the Fall of Berlin Wall/***

*An international conference hosted by*

*Institute of Czech History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Centre for the Study of Popular Culture and Archive of Czech and Slovak Subcultures*

*_22 February – 23 February 2019, Prague_*

*CFP Deadline 18 November 2018 (details of submissions bellow)*

Fanzines (fan magazines) or zines are usually conceived as social, cultural and material artefacts with a significant impact on dynamics of subcultural groups, scenes etc. Variety of non-commercial musical scenes, political oppositional groups but also literature, film and other fan communities produced thousands of zines also in Central and Eastern Europe where the self-publishing activities had a vivid “samizdat” tradition from communist times. Academic debate about subcultures in last two decades has presented zines as not only a medium cheaply produced by amateurs, outsiders, marginalized individuals and groups (Kirsty Five 2013) but also one that is reproduced and widely disseminated without profit-making structures in a way that challenges the distinction between producers and consumers (Duncombe 1997). Zine-related “scenes” or “zine cultures” (Atton 2002) are still to be an exciting and unresearched phenomenon, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. Cultural networks of authors, musicians, performers and  fans as well as material infrastructures around zine production (copy machines, computers etc.) and spaces of communication (libraries, fairs, concerts, happenings and other types of events) present a rich and appealing field for interdisciplinary research.

We are interested in the question how did and do zines initialize, stimulate or “construct” scenes? Conversely, how did and do the scenes shape zines as material artefacts? These questions we strive to analyse in view of five perspectives: historical context of late state-socialism and post-socialism, power relations and cultural context (mainstream versus alternative media), typology of zines in terms of content, material context of zine production and circulation, and interlinked dynamics of zine production and the degree of (in)stability in the corresponding scenes.

For the conference we welcome paper proposals related to the conference theme, including but not limited to such topics as:
* transfer of zine practises among different subcultures
* cross border and transregional transfer of zines and practises
* modes of zine distribution
* modes of zine production
* relation of zines to subcultures and social movements
* theoretical and conceptual approaches to zines
* zine archiving and preservation
* case studies of zines

*Language of the conference:*
- English (but also Czech or Slovak section is possible)

*Deadlines:*
Submission of paper abstracts 18 November 2018.
Notification on acceptance 16 December 2018.

*Publication of papers*
Full version of papers (written in English) for peer review and later publication 10 November 2019. // The special issue of an online journal Forum Historiae (www.forumhistoriae.sk <http://www.forumhistoriae.sk>) indexed in Scopus published within the region is scheduled for publication in 2020.

Please send 300-word abstracts together with information about the author (name and affiliation with full contact details) to (miroslav.michela /at/ ff.cuni.cz) <mailto:(miroslav.michela /at/ ff.cuni.cz)> + (cs.archiv.subkultur /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(cs.archiv.subkultur /at/ gmail.com)>



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