PSN#8 Brasil

PUNK SCHOLARS NEWORK BRAZIL FIRST GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM - 11th of December, BRAZIL.

The network of researchers Punk Scholars Network Brazil will hold an event on December 11th, during the main periods researchers (undergraduate and graduate) will present 17 works related to the punk theme according to the rules of the call for papers described below. Among the selected works, the titles presented in the morning (9:00 am to 12:00 pm in the local time zone) will be:

1. Pornotopia of queer failure: initial reflections on the queerpunk movement in São Paulo I Brazil - by Vinicius Santos Almeida;

2. The punk movement and the Do It Yourself phenomenon in consumer society - by Letícia Oliveira Feijão Galvão;

3. Between StraightEdge and Ayahuasca: self-care trajectories - by Gabrielle Dal Molin and Rafael Batista de Medeiros;

4. An anarchic body culture: the influence of punk on skateboarding, authored by Leonardo Brandão and Giancarlo Machado;

5. Contributions to an activist propedeutics at Girls Rock Camp in Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), by Gabriela Gelain and Paula Guerra;

6. Non-formal educational subcultural dimensions: the educommunicative potential of Punk and Hardcore - by Stella Mendonça Caetano and Thiago Cunha de Oliveira;

7. "Na Danada": the grimace of the naked skull - permeable borders, by André Araújo de Menezes

8. Future of the End: Joy Division and the soundscapes of future collapses, by Renata Caballero Alvarenga

In the second session of the PSN Brazil event, on Saturday afternoon, from 14:00 to 17:00 in local time, the works that will be presented are:

1. Network of anarchopunk dissident territories in Brazil: anarchopunk squatts and the politicization of everyday life - work by Rodopho Jordano Netto;

2. Punks in the northeast (of Brazil): reconstituting the sociological clues of an urban youth culture - work by João Batista de Menezes Bittencourt;

3. Punk movement and military dictatorship: communication strategies - work by Renan Marchesini de Quadros Souza;

4. Punk utopias: contemporary readings of punk in Brazilian society - work by Edson Alencar Silva and Paula Guerra

5. "You can find everything bad there": clashes between street punks and skinheads in Curitiba, Paraná (Brazil) - work by Tatiana Oliveira

6. Not allowed: the punk movement under censorship and surveillance - work by Renan Costa de Negri and Fernando Calderan Pinto da Fonseca

7. Hannah Arendt and the punk movement - work by Wander Arantes de Paiva Segundo

8. An alliance: death - work by Wescley Dinali
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PSN#8 PIND

Punk Scholars Network Benefit Fundraiser

The Punk Scholars Network is a not-for-profit organisation which relies entirely upon the support and goodwill of its members. If you would like to help towards the upkeep of the network please donate through our Punk Scholars Network GoFundMe page at https://gofund.me/9254fada. All donations are gratefully received.

History

Since its inception in 2012, the Punk Scholars Network has expanded its membership and activities through conferences, symposiums, publications, talks and exhibitions, whilst seeking to maintain its original aim as an international forum for scholarly debate. The Punk Scholars Network has also held a long-standing commitment towards the nurturing of research, not only in terms of post-doctoral output, but also through pedagogical and academic support for postgraduate and undergraduate research students whilst encouraging and supporting non-academics to pursue and develop their interests in punk scholarship.

PSN Mission Statement

The PSN is an academic platform that fosters a rigorous, scholarly approach to the study of punk and post-punk. With a global and academically diverse membership, the PSN encourages, and embraces, methodological approaches towards punk from a myriad of academic disciplines, including film studies, history, cultural studies, sociology, musicology, art and design and religious studies. Moreover, the PSN endeavours to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of academics, including those of any age, gender, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability and ethnicity. Core to the values of the PSN, therefore, is the creation of an environment where anyone, from any background, can feel safe in presenting, discussing and disseminating their research in the areas of punk and post-punk.

What Do We Need the Money For?

• The upkeep of the Punk Scholars Network website is currently £250 per annum. Last year, this was funded from pay-as-you can donations from the PSN Steering Committee and topped up by two generous benefactors. We feel that it would be unfair to ask those benefactors again.

• Many years ago, the Network was lucky to receive £150 from a benefactor as a means to purchase and print an initial stock of t-shirts to sell as merchandise. We feel that it is time that that individual is recompensed.

All monies received - small or large - will be highly appreciated.

Up the punx!

PSN#8 USA & Canada 2021

PSN USA and Canada: Virtual Conference

Sunday 5th December 2021

Zoom Registration Link:

https://bit.ly/3wHrwr7

Panel 1: Punk People

13:00-14:00 (1:00-2:00 EST)

Program Chair: Ellen Bernhard

1. John Charles Goshert – “You (plural): Political Configurations of Punk’s DIY Ethos”

2. Chanel Prince – Afropunk

3. Anthony Moll – More Than Aesthetics: On the Unexpectedly Punk Ethic of Rupi Kaur’s Poetry

Panel 2: Punk Politics

14:15-15:15 (2:15-3:15 EST)

Program Chair: Nico Rosario

1. Sophia Martinez-Abbud – The Chicano Punk Narratives of Oscar Acosta and Richard Rodriguez

2. Ellen Bernhard – “Waive your rights like you just don’t care”: Culture jamming conspiracy theories in Bad Religion’s “Do the Paranoid Style”

3. Antonio Pineda & Jorge David Fernández Gómez - “No Way: Eskorbuto for PM!” Punk Music and Anarchist Ideology in Eskorbuto.

Panel 3: Punk Places

15:30-16:30 (3:30-4:30 EST)

Program Chair: Jessica Schwartz

1. Kimon Keramidas – Mapping a Movement: People, Places, and Punk in a Hardcore Gazetteer

2. Mike McDowell – “Reinventing Axl Rose”: Gender, Performativity, and Identity in Gainesville’s Punk Scene

3. Dawson Barrett – Punks in Peoria

4. Christopher Gunter - The Chronotype of Punk: Activism in Space and Time

The Punk Scholars Network is a not-for-profit organisation which relies entirely upon the support and goodwill of its members. If you would like to help towards the upkeep of the network please donate through our Punk Scholars Network GoFundMe page at https://gofund.me/9254fada. All donations are gratefully received.

PSN#8 Netherlands 2021

Saturday the 4th of December 2021, will be the first-ever conference day of the Punk Scholars Network Netherlands, founded early this year.

It is also the first day of the 4-11 December worldwide conference of the Punk Scholars Network. We have joint organised the day with the Denmark/Germany PSN affiliate. Our conference day schedule is complete. So, unfortunately, we have to refer new paper proposals to other days of the global conference.

Scholarly papers on punk by authors from the Netherlands and from abroad will be read. There will be panels, films, and food.

Ticksets are available: https://www.facebook.com/events/1064137747733122

Due to Covid restrictions we have a shorter programmme than planned.

Mini Conference and Teaser: Punk and (DIY) Venues

Opening and Welcome
14:00 Opening of the 8th annual conference of PSN by Mike Dines
14:10 Opening and introduction to the first conference of PSN Netherlands by Anita Raghunath

Panel: Punk and venues, Chair: Marie Arleth Skov
14:15 Paper by Herman de Tollenaere: “Venues and punk concerts in greater Leiden 1976-1982”.
14:30 Marcel Stol about the longest lasting DIY Punk (squat) venue in the Netherlands:  “Goudvishal Arnhem (1984-2007)”
14:45 Introduction by Minja Šarović of her documentary about former DIY venue SUB071.
14:55 “Eerlijk Zullen We Allen Spelen” 25-minute film by Minja Šarović, released in 2017
15:20 Paper by Yorgos Paschos on DIY venues in the Netherlands in the post-2020 COVID-19 times: “Physical Space and Collective Identity- Making: DIY Cultural- Political Centers in Times of Lockdown”

15:35 Discussion about the papers and the film

15:55 Final words by Anita Raghunath and preview of the conference “Women in Punk”

Livestream
16:00 Livestream T.B.C.

Including the following bands: Azijnpisser from Eindhoven, Periot from Arnhem, and Livmoder from Rotterdam, so all from the Netherlands, and Hetze from Belgium. All these four bands include women.

Plans for spring 2022

Second, late 20th century, wave: Wick. Hear and see her Bambix live here:

That song, Westboro Wankers, is about religious fundamentalists. Same theme as No More Violence On TV, the fourth song written by Terry on the Cheap ‘n’ Nasty EP. Talking about connections between different generations of punk women.

Third, early 21st-century wave: Andrea Gálová. Hear her live with her band De Fatwa’s.

Fourth, 2020s, generation, Pernilla Ellens. Hear her band Livmoder, founded in 2021:

17:30 Q&A: People in the venue and on Zoom can ask questions to the panel members.

Dinner
18:00 Dinner at MKZ

Keynote
19:30 Interview by Marie Arleth Skov with German punk musician/author Desiree Fischbach, of the Berlin-based international band Schwarze Zukunft.

This video from Germany is called Schwarze Zukunft – Schwarze Zukunft (16.05.2021 Berlin, Køpi-Platz Kundgebung).

19:50 Final words, by Herman de Tollenaere

Bands
20:00 Livmoder
21:00 Periot
22:00 Azijnpissser
23:00 Hetze

With DJ Steve

End
24:00 End of program

The Punk Scholars Network is a not-for-profit organisation which relies entirely upon the support and goodwill of its members. If you would like to help towards the upkeep of the network please donate through our Punk Scholars Network GoFundMe page at https://gofund.me/9254fada. All donations are gratefully received.

PSN#8 Indonesia 2021

PSN #8: Indonesia: Virtual Conference

Tuesday 7th December 2021

 

14.20 - 14.50   Zoom Opens!

14.50 - 15.00   Opening Speech

15.00 - 15.20   20 Minutes Sharing Session with Yotam Ben Horin (Useless ID)

15.20 - 18.20   Keynotes (and Q & A) in the Main Room:

            1. William Anthony Yanko      

            2. Elise Imray Papineau           

            3. Jim Donaghey          

            4. Kevin Dunn             

18.20 - 18.30   Performance from Yotam Ben Horin (Useless ID)

18.30 - 20.00   Panel 1, with Yuka Dian Narendra (Chair):

1.     Rudolf Dethu         

2.     Stephanus Adjie     

3.     Hardinansyah Siji   

20.00 - 20.30   Q&A Session

20.30 - 20.45   Closing Ceremony

To become an audience, you just need to register by filling this form ONCE: 

https://bit.ly/PSNIndo2021

Registration for Audience PSN Indonesia Conference 2021 is OPEN until 10 PM Indonesia Time, Saturday,  27th November 2021.

"Like madness is the glory of this life." (Shakespeare)

Have a nice day and see you virtually,

PSN Indonesia Local Organiser.

The Punk Scholars Network is a not-for-profit organisation which relies entirely upon the support and goodwill of its members. If you would like to help towards the upkeep of the network please donate through our Punk Scholars Network GoFundMe page at https://gofund.me/9254fada. All donations are gratefully received.

PUNK SCHOLARS NETWORK EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE & POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM: FACE-TO-FACE EVENT

PUNK SCHOLARS NETWORK EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE & POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

A FACE-TO-FACE CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY THE PUNK SCHOLARS NETWORK & PIND: UNE HISTOIRE DE LA SCÈNE PUNK EN FRANCE (1976-2016)

CiRCUITS, NETWORKS, CONNECTIONS

10th-11TH DECEMBER 2021

Punk is a truly global phenomenon that manifests in myriad ways across many different scenes, musical styles, and political, cultural and social settings. As such, ‘punk’ is many things to many people and seldom remains static over a lifetime, with changes in connectivity and technology, economic and political globalisation impacting punk for better and worse. The current Punk Scholars Network series Global Punk has attempted to capture the spread and variance of punk across the world (Bestley, Dines, Gordon & Guerra 2019, 2020; Bestley, Dines, Gordon, Grimes & Guerra 2021). Moreover, the journal Punk & Post-Punk seeks contributions from punk scholars in a variety of geographical locations and settings.

With these efforts, and others, serving as a starting point the Punk Scholars Network are seeking to hold a conference that explores, examines and critically engages with punk scholars around the globe. Taking punk seriously as a theme means considering the variety of experiences within local, national and international punk communities, and this conference takes place against the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic, making it still uncertain which parts will be face-to face and which parts will be solely online.

In keeping with the PSN’s wide ranging academic reach, we are seeking contributions from a range of interdisciplinary areas, including, but not limited to: cultural studies, musicology, ethnography, art and design, humanities, performing arts and the social sciences. Papers and panels could cover, but are not limited to, the following themes:

• Globalisation of new media, communications, social networking, internet

• Ethnographic considerations of scene/space and borders

• In what ways do gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality, disability, class, religious beliefs and cultural norms shape punk?

• Music and the performer: creativity, authorship, identity, problems with definition, crossing musical boundaries.

• Reception: DIY culture, activism.

• Lifestyle: crust punk, squatter, vegetarianism, animal rights, straight edge etc., within different cultural contexts.

• The art of punk: record covers, concert flyers, fanzine design and associated graphic styles.

If you wish to take part, please submit your proposal to Solveig.serre@gmail.com; luc.robene@u-bordeaux.fr; and tim.a.heron@gmail.com

Proposals should be 350 words maximum (or equivalent, 3 minutes if a video clip for example) and proposed papers can be delivered in either French or English. Deadline 1st November 2021.

PUNK SCHOLARS NETWORK EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE & POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM: ONLINE EVENT

PUNK SCHOLARS NETWORK EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE & POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

A VIRTUAL, ONLINE GLOBAL CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY THE PUNK SCHOLARS NETWORK

CiRCUITS, NETWORKS, CONNECTIONS

4th-11TH DECEMBER 2021

Punk is a truly global phenomenon that manifests in myriad ways across many different scenes, musical styles, and political, cultural and social settings. As such, ‘punk’ is many things to many people and seldom remains static over a lifetime, with changes in connectivity and technology, economic and political globalisation impacting punk for better and worse. The current Punk Scholars Network series Global Punk has attempted to capture the spread and variance of punk across the world (Bestley, Dines, Gordon & Guerra 2019, 2020; Bestley, Dines, Gordon, Grimes & Guerra 2021). Moreover, the journal Punk & Post-Punk seeks contributions from punk scholars in a variety of geographical locations and settings.

With these efforts, and others, serving as a starting point the Punk Scholars Network are seeking to hold a conference that explores, examines and critically engages with punk scholars around the globe. Taking punk seriously as a theme means considering the variety of experiences within local, national and international punk communities, and this conference takes place against the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic, making it still uncertain which parts will be face-to face and which parts will be solely online.

In keeping with the PSN’s wide ranging academic reach, we are seeking contributions from a range of interdisciplinary areas, including, but not limited to: cultural studies, musicology, ethnography, art and design, humanities, performing arts and the social sciences. Papers and panels could cover, but are not limited to, the following themes:

• Globalisation of new media, communications, social networking, internet

• Ethnographic considerations of scene/space and borders

• In what ways do gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality, disability, class, religious beliefs and cultural norms shape punk?

• Music and the performer: creativity, authorship, identity, problems with definition, crossing musical boundaries.

• Reception: DIY culture, activism.

• Lifestyle: crust punk, squatter, vegetarianism, animal rights, straight edge etc., within different cultural contexts.

• The art of punk: record covers, concert flyers, fanzine design and associated graphic styles.

If you wish to take part, please submit your proposal to the relevant affiliate, if there is not one in your immediate geographical region then please submit it to the affiliate that aligns with your time zone for ease of inclusion. Proposals should be 350 words maximum (or equivalent, 3 minutes if a video clip for example) and do not have to be in English: please feel that you can use the language of your region, e.g. Dutch in the Netherlands, if you wish.

Anarchism and Punk Book Project

The Anarchism and Punk Book Project is publishing four books about the relationships between anarchism and punk. It's 'by the punks, for the punks' - we have 96 contributors from all over the world, and the books will be published by punk-anarchist stalwarts, Active Distribution. We are Crowdfunding to cover translation costs, to provide free books to contributors, and as a subvention for publication costs to make the books as affordable as possible.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/the-anarchism-and-punk-book-project

The project started out as a series of panels at the Anarchist Studies Network international conference last September. Building from that, Caroline Kaltefleiter, Will Boisseau, and myself put out our 'Call For Chapters' late last year, and it was way more successful than we had anticipated - so the project quickly expanded from 1 book to 4. We knew that close discussion of the relationships between anarchism and punk has often been lacking in the wider world of punk writing, and that huge response, from a wide diversity of places, really confirmed that for us. It was exciting stuff (despite the massively increased workload!).

It's not that people necessarily reject the relationship between anarchism and punk (though that sometimes happens), but it's very often taken-for-granted, or loosely alluded to in the background of some other area of discussion. Punk and anarchism are nebulous entities, and, as such, the relationships between them are really varied and complex - there's a lot to say here, as the large number of contributors suggests.

The international aspect is also important. Recent writing about punk has really got to grips with this, the concept of 'Global Punk' is prominent, the Punk Scholars Network has just published the Trans-Global Punk Scenes book too. In terms of anarchism and punk, the global resonance is crucial - the response to our call was particularly strong in Latin-America, South East Asia and post-dictatorship Europe. In these contexts, it was very often the case that punk re-introduced anarchist ideas after periods of communist or fascist dictatorship. That's profoundly different to the UK or US, where pre-existing anarchist movements (usually) took quite a snooty attitude to the punk-anarchist upstarts. Snoot versus snot!

We've got contributors working in academia, activists from trade unions and environmental groups, people working in punk-related cultural production - all sorts. Anyone involved in punk has critical thinking skills, just from being part of punk culture - we're always arguing about something, right? So, for us, it's been great to bring the academic critique and on-the-ground activist/cultural producer critique side-by-side. We're encouraging the use of accessible language, and demystifying any jargon along the way, so the books should have a really wide audience.

And they'll be affordable too. Active Distribution have always been committed to keeping prices as low as possible, and with the money we raise through the CrowdFunder, we can help push those prices even lower. I'm starting to sound like an advert for supermarket here ...

The Crowdfunder campaign has had a strong start - hopefully the rewards bundles of free books and posters have been enticing - but we need all the help we can get. If people can't donate directly, it's really helpful if they share it with their networks, friends and comrades (especially the rich ones).

Editors:

Will Boisseau – will.boisseau@hotmail.com

Caroline Kaltefleiter – Caroline.Kaltefleiter@cortland.edu

Jim Donaghey – j.donaghey@qub.ac.uk

Interview with David Vila Diéguez of PSN Iberia

Interview With Gabriela Gelain of PSN Brasil

PSN Brasil First Symposium Online/Virtual event, 27-29th january 2021. Report by Gabriela Gelain

In Brazil, the Punk Scholars Network has been meeting since the middle of 2020 with its members organizing their first event to take place at the end of January 2021. The symposium was organised primarily by João Bittencourt and Maiara Rodrigues, with help from the other members of the branch.

Over the course of three days, a public and live event (all available on the Punk Scholars Network Brasil YouTube channel) was developed with the participation of members of the Brazilian punk scene as musicians and activists, in addition to academics and researchers interested in theme and active participants in this forum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUqaRW1TFPU 1st day - Apresentando a PSN Brasil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UJydEeqqIg 1st day - Entrevista com Minerva - Punk Colômbia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyA5Cy8gtI8 2nd day - Interseccionalidades e ativismos no punk brasileiro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP3iaF-biSc 3rd day - Arquivo Punk - colecionismo, memórias e resistências

On the first day of the seminar, we held an opening of the event, introducing PSN Brasil and explaining the Global PSN project, the basic principles of the community and how this discussion forum about punk culture came to our country. Following this, Gabriela Gelain (member of PSN Brasil) chaired a presentation by researcher and academic Minerva Campion (Pontificia Universidad Javieriana) on the subject of Colombian punk from the 1980s to the present day. On the second day of the seminar, the discussion was organized by Maiara Rodrigues and Carolina Cardoso and centred on the issues of intersectionality and activism in Brazilian punk. Three women active in the punk scene in Brazil were interviewed: Elaine Campos (from the band Rastilho), Natália Matos (from the band Punho de Mahim) and Daniela Rodrigues (from the band Renegades of Punk). Finally, on the last day of the seminar Antonio Carlos de Oliveira and João Neves reflected on their trajectories and research relating to collecting, memories and resistance in Brazilian punk.

In parallel to the PSN Brasil public seminar, there were two days of internal seminars. These were arranged specifically for the members of the network to get to know each other better as well as sharing their research, and to have the opportunity to discuss topics related to punk in our country and region-specific information. João Bittencourt discussed punks in a region located in the northeast of Brazil, reconstructing the sociological clues of this urban youth culture. Carolina de Andrade Cardoso's work focused on women in underground rock in the city of Curitiba, capital of the state of Paraná in southern Brazil, where one of the country's Girls Rock Camps also takes place. Moacir Alcântara presented her work on the representations and modes of subjectification of punk in the newspaper Correio Braziliense, using excerpts from the period 1990 to 2014. Henrique Conti presented work on the straight edge movement in Brazil as a political performance, specifically from an anarchist perspective. Felipe Silvatti led a discussion on punk festivals, relating this empirical field to Foucault’s concept of heterotopia.

Gabriela Gelain then recounted the experience of her dissertation, which focussed on the readings and updates of the Riot Grrrl movement in Brazil. This conversation related to the work of Karina Moritzen, who discussed other works on gender, with an emphasis on intersectional feminism, issues of whiteness and Riot Grrrl. Hellen Cristina Silva de Oliveira analysed the meanings of violence in the punk movement in the city of São Paulo in the Southeast Region of Brazil, while Edson Alencar Silva presented work on the musical recordings of punks in São Paulo. Alexandre de Almeida offered a debate on the organization of musical documents produced by Brazilian skinheads and White Power bands, and José Rinaldo Queiroz de Lima developed an interesting work on the punk of Alto Sertão Alagoano, specifying his research in the town of Delmiro Gouveia, situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region of Brazil, from 1984 to 1996.

We were able to learn about the work of Maiara Rodrigues dos Santos Silva on gender violence in Latin punk in the 1990s, based on a comparative analysis between Brazil and Argentina. João Augusto Neves presented his work on tensions and stresses of punk masculinity, demonstrating some dialogues within a selected range of Brazilian fanzines. Finally, researcher Rodolpho Jordano Netto had the opportunity to show his work on anarcho-punk squats in Brazil, as territories for the creation and experience of libertarian culture.

Author: Gabriela Gelain (PSN Brazil – ESPM-SP) gabrielagelain@gmail.com

Interview With Marie Skov Chair of PSN Germany and Denmark

Interview with Herman de Tollenaere, Chair of PSN Netherlands

I talk about old style punk with Herman de Tolenaere of PSN Netherlands.

Interview With Fahkran Ramadhan Chair of PSN Indonesia

I talk punk, heavy metal parenting, and the blood sweat and tears of the PSN Conference 2020 with the wonderful Fahkran Ramadhan of PSN Indonesia.