[Commlist] Punk Scholars Network 10th Annual Conference

Punk Scholars Network 10th Annual Conference & Postgraduate Symposium

Punk and Temporality

15th & 16th December 2023 Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe, 
United Kingdom

At this year’s Punk Scholars Network conference and postgraduate 
symposium, the primary theme will be ‘punk and temporality.’ Temporality 
is concerned less with the objective measurable notion of time, and 
instead places more emphasis on how we experience history and events 
physically and socially. In Temporalities (2012), Russell West-Pavlov 
provides this reflection on temporality:

“Time is self-evident, it needs no explanation. Its passing is indexed 
all around us [...] yet [it is] deeply problematic for us. The nature of 
the past is incessantly debated. Death and ageing are taboo topics in 
our youth-obsessed society. The future is represented for us in a 
plethora of consumer images, of things we can have or ways we can be as 
soon as we buy this or that product. But simultaneously it is a source 
of anxiety.”

Now in its sixth decade, there is—and largely always has been—a lot of 
room for reflections within punk communities regarding the various ways 
we can situate punk in relation to time. Much of punk discourse is 
somewhat meta, insofar that we often spend our time contemplating punk’s 
beginnings and perceived endings, its health, punk ontologies, and so 
on. A non-restrictive list of examples of themes for this year’s 
symposium include punk and:

- Archiving
- Death
- Existentialism
- Geography/space
- Historicisation
- History
- Myth
- ‘No future’
- Revisionism
- Scenes (local/national)
- Spaces
- The future
- Youth/age

We seek to explore these and associated themes, and welcome submissions 
from academics from across the spectrum of disciplines, non-academics, 
and practitioners at all stages. Additionally, we welcome submissions in 
areas distinct from the above, with the caveat that the core theme 
should be punk, and priority will be given to abstracts that align more 
closely with the theme of temporality.

The deadline for abstracts (of no more than 250 words) is Monday 26 
September 2023. In addition, please let us know your full name and 
contact email address, and (where appropriate) your institutional 
affiliation. Please send all abstracts as well as any questions to 
(paul.fields /at/ bnu.ac.uk).

The 2023 conference and symposium is taking place at Buckinghamshire New 
University in High Wycombe, UK, which is approximately a 30-minute train 
journey from Central London. There is no conference fee, however we 
welcome donations from those in a position comfortably to do so.

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