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[Commlist] Zines assemble (conference/zine making day)

Mon Sep 05 18:05:58 GMT 2022





Just circulating information about an upcoming online symposium and hybrid zine making event which is happening on 9^th and 10^th September.

*Zines ASSEMBLE is a one-day online symposium on Friday 9th September 2022, with formal and informal talks, presentations and sharing, followed by a 24-hour zine jam, with facilitated in-person and online zine making over the weekend of Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th September.*

This event is being supported by Wellcome Collection and organised by Autumn Brown (Trinity College Dublin/ Science Gallery International), Kin Long Tong (UCL), Kirsty Fife (Manchester Metropolitan University), Lea Cooper (University of Kent/Wellcome Collection) and Tamsin Walker (UCLAN).

*Online Symposium: Call for Submissions *

“Zines”, broadly defined as an independent and Do-it-Yourself (DIY) form of paper publication (Kempson, 2015), have gained global visibility in recent decades. Zine practices continue to evolve, taking on new forms - for example, digital zines (Afrin, 2022; Millward, 2008). In research zines emerge as: affective forms of life writing; artistic practice; “resistive texts” challenging, queery-ing or subverting mainstream discourses;  and/or as an alternative economy producing textual or embodied communities or networks (Duncombe, 1997; Licona, 2012; Zobl, 2009; Chidgey, 2013; Ramdarshan Bold, 2017; Watson and Bennett, 2021; Brouwer and Licona, 2016; Piepmeier, 2009; Poletti, 2008). However, despite the significant potentialities of zines, their use as research method (French, Curd, 2021; Ptolomey, 2020) and their growing presence in libraries and archives (Eichhorn, 2013; Lymn, 2014; Wooten and Bly, 2013; Fife, 2019; Chidgey, 2006), this creative medium/media is still under-researched. As well as offering possibilities, zines present challenges to researchers working with them. More work is needed to explore the context, dynamics, methods, and future of zines-making and zines research.

Therefore, this event aims to:

  * *Promote zines studies as a transdisciplinary field*
  * *Advance a particular agenda for zines research*
  * *Provide a space for building connections with zines researchers
    across the globe*
  * *Bridge the gaps between creative, professional and academic practices*

Full programme and (free) registration info here: https://zinejam.com/zines-assemble-symposium <https://zinejam.com/zines-assemble-symposium>


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