KISMIF International Conference 2015
13-17 July 2015 (Porto, Portugal)
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International ConferenceKeep It Simple, Make It Fast!Crossing Borders of Underground Music ScenesSummer SchoolGettin’ Underground Together |
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts Submission: From 5th November 2014 to 15th February 2015. Dates: KISMIF International Conference: 15th – 17th July 2015 Summer School Gettin’ Underground Together! 13th – 14th July 2015 Venues: Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto – Casa da Música Keynotes confirmed: Andy Bennett, Carles Feixa, Dave Laing, Dick Hebdige, Jeder Janotti Jr., Paul Hodkinson. KISMIF Convenors: Andy Bennett (AU) and Paula Guerra (PT) KISMIF Scientific Committee: Alastair Gordon, Andy Bennett, Augusto Santos Silva, Carles Feixa, Heitor Alvelos, Jeder Janotti Jr., João Queirós, José Machado Pais, Júlio Dolbeth, Luís Fernandes, Pedro Costa, Manuel Loff, Matt Worley, Mike Dines, Paula Abreu, Paula Guerra, Rui Telmo Gomes and Will Straw. KISMIF Executive Committee: Ana Oliveira, Ana Raposo, Esgar Acelerado, Gil Fesch, João Queirós, Marcos Farrajota, Paula Abreu, Paula Guerra, Pedro Costa, Pedro Miguel Ferreira, Pedro Quintela, Ricardo Salazar, Rui Telmo Gomes, Tânia Moreira, Vítor Massa. |
We are pleased to announce the second KISMIF International Conference. “Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (KISMIF) Crossing Borders of Underground Music Scenes” will take place in Porto, Portugal between 15th July and 17th July 2015. The conference is associated with the research project Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (PTDC/CS-SOC/118830/2010). The submission of papers for this conference is open to academic researchers working in all areas of sociology, anthropology, history, cultural economics, geography, urban planning, media and cultural studies and cognate disciplines, including design, illustration musicology, popular music and visual and performing arts. This initiative follows the great success of the first KISMIF conference (held in July, 2014). Keeping the focus on underground music and its creative possibilities for resistance and DIY, we extend the analysis of music scenes to consider the intersection and debate with other cultural, artistic and creative fields (cinema and video; graffiti and street art; theater and performance art; literature and poetry; radio; graphic design, illustration, cartoon and comics; etc.). Thus, exploiting the potential of the theoretical and analytical development of the intersection of music scenes, we intend to enrich their relevance in the development of social theory, but also in the interpretation of late modernity in times of contemporary societal and cultural crisis. The relation and enlargement of the arts to social, cultural and political spheres seems to us a very fruitful research platform and also offers the possibility for the consolidation of an emerging knowledge domain that responds to the challenges and social changes created by new technologies, and also reconfigurations of identity, gender, lifestyle, spatiality, social class, age, and ethnicity as these map onto the networks, flows, art worlds, musical and artistic fields, and underground music scenes that are main focus of the conference. The stimulating scientific program of the conference will be accompanied by a social program in the form of art and music in action providing a unique and enriching experience of underground music scenes in the city of Porto and elsewhere in the world. |
The conference will be preceded by a two-day summer school on (13th to 14th July) entitled “Gettin’ Underground Together!” (for more information about Summer School Gettin’ Underground Together click here http://www.punk.pt/conference-2/). The summer school will offer an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students, including those staying on for the conference, to attend specialist master classes and discuss their research in seminars led by top academics in the field. |
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The conference organizing committee welcomes abstracts relating to the following topics:
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Instructions |
Abstracts must be written in English (the presentation of work in the Conference can be made in English or Portuguese), having approximately 250 words, and include 3-5 keywords. Abstracts should be sent along with a brief biographical note of the authors (100 words). We ask the participants to submit the abstracts and contacts until 15th February 2015, in the virtual conference platform: http://kismif.eventqualia.net. |
Important Dates: |
1. Conference
Submission of abstracts: From 5th November 2014 to 15th February 2015. Opening of registrations: 5th November 2014 Notification of abstracts approval: 15th March 2015. Deadline for early registration: 15th April 2015 Deadline for registration of conference presenters: 15th April 2015 Deadline for all other delegates: 15th June 2015 KISMIF International Conference: 15th – 17th July 2015 |
2. Summer School
Submission of applications: 5th November 2014 to 15th February 2015. Notification of applications approval: 15th March 2015. Deadline for early registration: 15th April 2015 Deadline for normal registration: 15th June 2015 Summer School Gettin’ Underground Together: 13th – 14th July 2015 |
Organizers:
KISMIF (Portugal) Institute of Sociology – University of Porto (IS-UP, Portugal)
Co-organizers: Griffith Centre for Cultural Research (GCCR) – Griffith University (Australia) Centre for Socioeconomic Change and Territorial Studies (DINÂMIA’CET – IUL, Portugal) Centre for the Study of Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT, Portugal) Centre for Social Studies – University of Coimbra (CES-UC, Portugal) Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (IPT, Portugal) University of Lleida (Spain) |
Partners: |
Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal)
Department of Sociology Faculty of Arts and Humanities – University of Porto (Portugal) Casa da Música (Portugal) Eventqualia (Portugal) Preguiça Magazine (Portugal) FUTUREPLACES (Portugal) Punk Scholars Network (PSN, United Kingdom) The Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change (Subcultures Network, United Kingdom) |
For more information about KISMIF Conference: |
http://kismif.eventqualia.net
https://www.facebook.com/kismif.international.conference http://www.punk.pt/conference-2/
Download the KISMIF Call for Papers |