[Commlist] CFP: Researching Subcultures and Aesthetics Postgraduate Symposium: Alternative Voices in Academia

Call For Papers: Researching Subcultures and Aesthetics Postgraduate 
Symposium: Alternative Voices in Academia

Event date: 10 September 2019
Venue: National University of Ireland, Galway

Free Event


*Punk Scholars Network* invites proposals for presentations as part of 
our postgraduate symposium on subcultures and aesthetics at National 
University of Ireland, Galway. This symposium will explore how 
subcultures connect to aesthetics and createwhat Pierre Bourdieu calls 
/the space of possibles/, a space for radical politics to be formed 
through the means of artistic productions. From do-it-yourself methods 
of street art to the shock-effect of Dadaist and punk attitudes in 
different time-places, the close relationship between subcultures and 
aesthetics continues to reflect the turbulences of our political 
atmosphere. From music and literatureto cinema and other art forms, 
this symposium will offer a platform for postgraduate students who wish 
to share their research, explore critical approaches and analyse the 
complexities of the relationship between subcultures and aesthetics.

This is also a great opportunity for those of you who would like to 
bring academic research and subcultural environments together, share the 
potential contradictions that may arise from this togetherness and 
explore alternative research methods. Representatives of the Punk 
Scholars Network have kindly agreed to attend the symposium as panel 
discussants.

We invite proposals from international researchers representing diverse 
backgrounds and academic disciplines, including urban studies, cultural 
studies, media studies, literary studies, film studies, queer studies, 
musicology, sociology, arts and history. We also welcome proposals of 
alternative forms of presentation or performance relating to the 
symposium’s themes.

Topics of interest for submission include but are not limited to:

·Global and local subcultural scenes

·The role of subcultures in cultural studies

·Critical perspectives on subcultural productions

·Music scenes, art collectives, film clubs and other collective spaces

·Low-budget, DIY and alternative forms of art-making

·The current state of punk discourse in academia

·Histories of subcultures, nostalgia and collective memory

·Punk as a discipline / Punk as a subculture

·The politics of race and gender in subcultural environments

·Junk and pulp fiction, thrash, cult, experimental and underground cinemas


Keynotes by representatives of the Punk Scholars Network


Proposals for papers should be approximately 300 words in length and 
should be sent to *(t.gurbuz1 /at/ nuigalway.ie) 
<mailto:(t.gurbuz1 /at/ nuigalway.ie)>* no later than *1 July 2019* with a 
short biography.


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