Our annual conference of the Punk Scholars Network Canada and United States will be held on November 18, 2022 via Zoom. The theme this year is Punk & Resilience, and we will be hosting presentations from punk scholars both in North America and internationally.
Draft Conference Schedule:
Registration link: https://bit.ly/3SGe5BL
Panel 1: 13:00 – 14:00 EST
Moderator: Ellen Bernhard
Katie Brown - “Pero al menos hoy sigo respirando (En: But at least today I’m still breathing)”: Queer and Transnational Feminist Punk Performance in San José, Costa Rica
Erik Gustafson - Please (don’t) kill me: Punk music, presence, and possibilities for the digital era
Joseph D. Bryan - “Oh my fucking God, it’s almost fourth of July”: Confronting the Past to Overcome the Present
Panel 2: 14:15 – 15:15 EST
Moderator: Nico Rosario
Tara Lopez - “Chucotown Soundtrack: 1990s El Paso Punk Rock”
Valerie George & Scott Satterwhite - “The Shape of Punk to Come: Building a Punkhouse of Resistance in the Sunshine State”
Alican Koc - “What Came First, the Chain or the Egg?” The Future of Punk in the Age of the Meme
Panel 3: 15:30 – 16:45 EST
Moderator: Jessica Schwartz
Kati Simek - Punk in Justice: Punk Rock Ethics in Social Justice Spaces (and one org’s quest for a plan)
Emily Scherzinger - The 90s and Affect: “Here we are now, entertain us!”
Kirsten Rowland - An Overlooked Form of Resilience-Building in the Punk Community