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

*/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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