[Commlist] CFP: Punk Scholars 2025 (Punk Rock Museum)

*Punk Scholars Network USA and Canada 3rd Annual Conference*
*Call for Papers*
*March 2 & 3, 2025*
*The Punk Rock Museum – Las Vegas, Nevada*
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*Theme: Punk on Display*
Following the success of our second in-person conference in August 2024, 
we are excited to announce our third in-person conference sponsored by 
PSN Canada and PSN USA. This year, the conference will be held on March 
2 and 3 at The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Punk is a truly global phenomenon that manifests in myriad ways. The 
music and culture are created and transformed in different scenes in 
ways that are both unique but also reflect commonalities. Given the 
location of this year’s conference we encourage participants to consider 
how punk is and has been collected, presented and re-presented, curated, 
and archived. Punks respond to and engage varying political and cultural 
contexts. And the culture invites individual participation within 
networks that foster cooperative action. Punk is many things to many 
people and seldom remains static over a lifetime. Increased 
globalization, changes in connectivity and technology, and shifts in 
both capitalism and populism have impacted punk for better and worse. 
International and transnational punk scenes reflect these connections, 
but also can highlight ideological and aesthetic differences.
In keeping with the PSN’s multidisciplinary academic approach, we are 
seeking contributions from a range of fields of study and methodological 
approaches including, but not limited to cultural studies, history, 
musicology, communication, art and design, humanities, performing arts, 
and the social sciences. As ever, the PSN also welcomes proposals from 
independent scholars, artists, journalists, musicians, punk fans, and 
scene participants working outside of formal academic institutions. 
Selected papers and panels could cover, but are not limited to, the 
following themes:
*Formal and informal punk archives, punk gallery displays, and punk 
museum collections
*The history of punk: origins, legacy, impact.
*Punk resistance, longevity, and sustainability.
*Global punk scenes.
*Punk ethics and politics.
*Punk aesthetics, punk style.
*Punk and conflict, crisis, or trauma.
*Ethnographic considerations of a scene, spaces, and borders.
*Music and the performer: creativity, authorship, identity, definition, 
musical boundaries.
*DIY culture and activism.
*The art of punk: record covers, concert flyers, fanzine design and 
associated graphic styles.
*Political issues relating to Canada and the United States analysed 
though the lens of punk scholarship, such as abortion rights, systemic 
racism, gender equality, and disability justice.
*Submission Deadline: Thursday, October 31, 2024 though we are happy to 
accept proposals earlier. Decisions will be sent by November 14, 2024.*
Proposals should be 350 words maximum. Please include a presentation 
title, affiliation information (if any), pronouns, and a brief presenter 
bio (50-100 words) with your submission. There is no conference fee for 
presenters.
*Proposals for PSN Canada and PSN USA should be submitted to 
*(_punkscholarsusa /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(punkscholarsusa /at/ gmail.com)>_
_https://www.punkscholarsnetwork.com/ 
<https://www.punkscholarsnetwork.com/>_
PSN USA: (_punkscholarsusa /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(punkscholarsusa /at/ gmail.com)>_
IG: @punkscholarsnetwork.us
PSN Canada: (_punkscholarsnetworkcanada /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(punkscholarsnetworkcanada /at/ gmail.com)>_
IG: @psn_canada


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