EUPOP moved to 2022
UPDATE!!!
[EUPOP 2020 and COVID2019]
Important information concerning the EUPOP conference
Due to the current difficult situation concerning the corona virus epidemic, the conference will be rescheduled further, to July 2022.
Travel bans and regulations are now experiences worldwide, and we need to consider everyone’s safety and health first, and do our best to limit and contain the epidemic, which might still be an ongoing concern in July 2021, despite the vaccinations having been started all around the world.
We are so sorry for all the difficulties this will cause, but truly hope to see you next year under better circumstances. We will discuss further details within the organising committee and inform personally all the participants, and let you know about the new dates, plans and practicalities as soon as possible!
All accepted abstracts (originally for 2020 conference) will be good in 2022 as well, and we will re-open the call for further applicants in late 2021.
As there has been a long pause in EPCA activities, after the start of the global pandemic, the board has now decided that there will be a smaller online event in the Summer of 2021. We are currently planning the exact programme of it.
Please wait for follow-up information, as we cannot answer all individual emails right now.
Original call for papers:
EUPOP 2020
Jagiellonian University, July 22nd – 24th, 2020
Deadline: 29th February, 2019
Individual paper and panel contributions are welcomed for the ninth annual international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), to be held at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, July 22nd – 24th, 2020.
EUPOP 2020 will explore European popular culture in all its various forms. This includes, but is by no means limited to, the following topics: Climate Change in Popular Culture, European Film (past and present), Television, Music, Costume and Performance, Celebrity, The Body, Fashion, New Media, Popular Literature and Graphic Novels, Queer Studies, Sport, Curation, and Digital Culture. We also welcome abstracts which reflect the various ways of how the idea of relationship between Europe and popular culture could be formed and how the current turmoil in European identity (e.g. the legacy of totalitarianism and fascism), union, its borders and divisions are portrayed in popular cultural themes and contents.
Papers and complete panels for all strands will be subject to peer review. Proposals for individ-ual presentations must not exceed 20 minutes in length, and those for panels limited to 90 minutes. In the latter case, please provide a short description of the panel along with individual abstracts. Poster presentations and video projections are also warmly welcomed.
There will be opportunities for networking and publishing within the EPCA. Presenters at EUPOP 2020 will be encouraged to develop their papers for publication in a number of Intellect journals, including the EPCA’s Journal of European Popular Culture. A full list of Intellect journals is available at:
https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/index/
Proposals comprising a 300-word abstract, your full name, affiliation, and contact details (as a Word-file attachment, not a PDF) should be submitted to Kari Kallioniemi (kakallio@utu.fi) by 29.02.2020. Receipt of proposals will be acknowledged via e-mail, and the decision of acceptance will be notified within two weeks of submission.
The conference draft program will be announced in May 2020, along with the conference regis-tration and accommodation details. The likely conference fee will be 150 euros (student), and 200 euros (other). The fee includes coffees, lunches, evening reception & dinner, and EPCA Membership (includes subscription to the European Journal of Popular Culture, Intellect Press).
The keynote speakers:
Dr Tomasz Z. Majkowski (Jagiellonian University)
Dr Mari Pajala (University of Turku)
Professor Małgorzata Sugiera (Jagiellonian University)
The European Popular Culture Association
The European Popular Culture Association (EPCA) promotes the study of popular culture from, in, and about Europe. Popular culture involves a wide range of activities, material forms and audiences. EPCA aims to examine and discuss these different aspects as they relate both to Europe and to Europeans across the globe, whether contemporary or historical.
EUPOP 2020 is organised by:
European Popular Culture Association (EPCA): https://epcablog.wordpress.com/
International Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC): http://iipc.utu.fi/
Kind Regards,
EPCA President, Kari Kallioniemi, kakallio@utu.fi
EPCA Vice-President, Pamela Church Gibson, pamelachurchgibson@gmail.com
EPCA Secretary, Kimi Kärki, kierka@utu.fi
EPCA Membership Secretary, Graham Roberts, grahamroberts83@gmail.com
Local Organiser Contact: Anna Svetlova, annaswietlowa@gmail.com and Olga Grzelak, olgagrzelak@gmail.com
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3rd Sexual Cultures Conference: PLAY
University of Turku
28-29 May, 2019
Confirmed keynote speakers: Tom Apperley (University of Tampere), Kane Race (University of Sydney) & Katrin Tiidenberg (Tallinn University)
The 3rd Sexual Cultures Conference focuses on the notion of play, understood as autotelic practices of pleasure where the enchantment of the activity is an end in itself. As the game studies scholar Miquel Sicart nevertheless notes, the pleasures of play can be ambivalent indeed: “Play is not necessarily fun. It is pleasurable, but the pleasures it creates are not always submissive to enjoyment, happiness, or positive traits. Play can be pleasurable when it hurts, offends, challenges us and teases us, and even when we are not playing. Let’s not talk about play as fun but as pleasurable, opening us to the immense variations of pleasure in this world.”
Building on this understanding of play, as well as sex, as variations of pleasure, the conference sets out to ask what happens if we consider sexual representation, networked forms of connecting and relating, or the experimentation with sexual likes though this prism? Indeed, what might studies of sexual cultures foregrounding the complexity and centrality of pleasure, look like? This is what we invite you to think with us.
Possible themes and topics include, but are not limited to examinations of play and playfulness in relation to:
hook-up cultures
pornography
sex education
sex and gaming
sexting
sexual histories
kink cultures
sexual identifications
leisure sex
intimacy
sexual harassment
CFP for the event is closed. For any practical info, please contact conference services info@aboaservices.fi. On issues connected to the academic programme, please contact program chair Susanna Paasonen at suspaa@utu.fi.
The conference is jointly organized by the Academy of Finland research project, Sexuality and Play in Media Culture, The Department of Media Studies and IIPC, the International Institute for Popular Culture, at the University of Turku.
https://blogit.utu.fi/sexualcultures/
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Affective Politics of Social Media
University of Turku
12–13 October, 2017
https://affectivesome.wordpress.com/
Confirmed keynote speakers: Crystal Abidin (Jönköping University / Curtin University), Kath Albury (Swinburne University of Technology), Nancy Baym (Microsoft Research New England), Ben Light (University of Salford), Theresa Senft (Macquarie University), and Jenny Sundén (Södertörn University).
From clickbaits to fake news, heated Facebook exchanges, viral Twitter messages and Tinder swipes, the landscape of social media is rife with affective intensities of varying speeds and lengths. Affect, as the capacity to relate, impress and be impressed, creates dynamic connections between human and nonhuman bodies. Zooming in on these connections, their intensities, rhythms, and trajectories in the context of networked communications, Affective Politics of Social Media asks how affect circulates, generates value, fuels political action, feeds conflict and reconfigures the categories of gender, sexuality and race through and across social media platforms.
Multiple analytical avenues have already been laid out for doing this, from Jodi Dean’s examination of affect and drive to Tarleton Gillespie’s analysis of the politics of platforms, Adi Kuntsman’s examination of “webs of hate” and Zizi Papacharissi’s discussion of affective publics as contagious articulations of feeling that bring forth more or less temporary sense of community and connection. Building on a growing body of work on “networked affect”, this two-day symposium features keynotes exploring the affective labour of social media influencers, the automation and quantification of the intimate, the netiquette of hook-up apps and the dynamics of music stardom and fandom, and invites contributions connected to affect and social media in relation to
- collective action and political activism
- sexual cultures and practices
- harassment, hate and resistance
- affective rhythms, intensities and investments
- popular culture and everyday life
MUSIC FESTIVAL AND URBAN IDENTITY
University Consortium of Pori, Finland, September 27th, 2016 (Lecture Room 267)
The Symposium Program
8:30–9:00 Registration, coffee is served at the lobby
9:00–9:15 Welcome/ opening words
Professor Anna Sivula, University of Turku
9:15–10:15 Keynote speaker:
Popular Cultural Heritage of Manchester
Professor Justin O´Connor, Monash University, Australia
10:30-12:00 Workshop 1:
Cultural heritage of popular culture
Chairman Anna Sivula, Professor, Cultural Heritage, University of Turku
1) From the Guggenheim Effect to Temporal Geographies of Affect: The Production of Social Space through Events and Affects
Aleksi Lohtaja, University of Jyväskylä
2) The barbarians are coming to town. Mont-de-Marsan and the world’s first punk festival (1976-1977)
Luc Robène, University of Bordeaux, THALIM (France) and Solveig Serre, CNRS (Centre de musique de Versailles) in CESR-CMBV (Centre d`études supérieures de la renaissance) (France)
3) The city of Paris and friendship in Dominique Sylvain’s Ingrid Diesel & Lola Jost series
Andrea Hynynen, University of Turku
12:00–13:00 Lunch (at your own expense)
13:00–14:30 Workshop 2:
Popular Culture and Urban Studies
Chairman Kari Kallioniemi, Adjunct professor, Cultural History, University of Turku
1) Rock and Ópera al Parque in Bogotá: Social and Cultural Perpspective Santiago Niño Morales, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia
2) Industrial Cities, Industrial Sounds? Popular Music and the European urban Crisis in the 1970s and 1980s
Giacomo Botta, University of Helsinki
3) Pori Jazz Festival and perspectives on popular music and cultural heritage
Iida-Milla Saarinen, University of Turku
14:30–15:00 Coffee is served at the lobby
15:00–-16:00 Keynote Speaker:
Rock Spectacles and Cultural Heritage
Dr Kimi Kärki, IIPC (The International Institute for Popular Culture, University of Turku)
16:00–16:30 Final discussion
We’ll get together in a local pub and continue discussions!
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MUSIC FESTIVAL AND URBAN IDENTITY
University Consortium of Pori, Finland, September 27th, 2016
9.45 am- 17.00 pm
| CALL FOR PAPERS (extended deadline 1 Aug, 2016) |
Individual paper and panel contributions are welcomed on the following thematic
Popular Culture and Urban Studies
Crime fiction, city and emotions
Urban Heritage and Identity Work
Temporal Uses of Urban Space
The international symposium will offer a variety of perspectives on urban studies and popular culture research. For example music festivals have become quite a significant factor in determining urban identities, and for the reason we also encourage contributions on 50-year old Pori Jazz Festival.
This symposium will offer two keynote lectures. Professor Justin O’Connor (Monash University, Australia) is an expert of urban popular culture and cultural industries. He will be talking about the popular cultural heritage of the city of Manchester. Dr Kimi Kärki (University of Turku, Finland) has researched the cultural history of rock spectacles and other media events. His keynote address will focus on rock spectacles as containers of history culture.
The workshops will explore
1) The various ways of how popular culture and urban culture are connected.
2) How urban fear in crime fiction will introduce the relationship between the city and characters of crime fiction in literature, film, TV, and other media.
3) How urban heritage can be explored by the identity and identity work.
4) Temporary uses will be introduced and explored via popular music and analyzed by their significance, on the basis of design, sustainability, profitability, creativity, inclusiveness and heritage.
The seminar is organized, on the home turf of the internationally well-known Pori Jazz Festival, at the University Consortium of Pori at 27th September 2016. The seminar languages are English and Finnish. The seminar is free of charge for all participants.
Papers will be subject to peer review. Proposals for individual presentations must not exceed 20 minutes in length. Send your 250 words abstract with:
- your full name
- affiliation
- contact details, including e-mail address (as a Word-file attachment, not a PDF)
- presentation title
- 3-5 keywords
A jury will decide which papers are accepted and may suggest the proposed paper to switch to an another category considering that there is no hierarchy in the type of presentation, each one being mentioned in the program of the conference and published in the conference proceedings. Descriptions of all the four workshops, see below.
EXTENDED DEADLINE!!! Proposals should be submitted to Professor Anna Sivula (anna.sivula@utu.fi) by August 1st, 2016.
The conference draft program will be announced in August 12th 2016, along with the symposium registration and accommodation details. All the details are to be found on the.
The refereed proceedings will be published at the IIPC Publication Series ISSN 1797-318X (online). For the previous titles in the series, see https://iipcblog.wordpress.com/publications/
Keynote lectures
Professor Justin O´Connor
Monash University, Australia
Dr Kimi Kärki
IInternational Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC), University of Turku
Application
Application for participation in the conference, please send an abstract (250 words) to:
professor Anna Sivula (anna.sivula@utu.fi)
Abstracts can be written in English and the conference languages will be English and Finnish.
Abstract submission deadline is August 1, 2016.
The acceptance will be announced by August 12, 2016.
The preliminary schedule of the conference
Monday 26th September 2016
Evening reception at Satakunta Museum, Pori
Tuesday 27th September 2016
Conference program with two keynote presentations and four parallel workshops
Organizers of the conference
MUSIC FESTIVAL AND URBAN IDENTITY is organized by the University of Turku:
Cultural Heritage Studies and Degree Program in Cultural production and Landscape Studies (Pori)
http://www.utu.fi/en/units/hum/units/cultural-production-and-landscape-studies/Pages/home.aspx
International Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC)
http://iipc.utu.fi/
Further information
Professor Anna Sivula, anna.sivula@utu.fi
https://iipcblog.wordpress.com/conferences
Here are the descriptions of all four workshops:
Workshop 1
Popular Culture and Urban Studies
PhD, Kari Kallioniemi, University of Turku
The main aim of this workshop is to explore the various ways how popular culture and urban studies are connected, both in their historical and contemporary forms, and how different concepts of popular and urban could provide material for students interested about the relationship between popular culture and urban studies.
Workshop 2
Crime fiction, city and emotions
Dr Silja Laine, University of Turku
Crime fiction is in many ways a transnational genre, written, produced and consumed in every continent and it may be set in the most extraordinary or distant places. At the same time it has national traditions and many popular films and books have a special tie with a specific city. This session sets out to investigate the relationship between the city and characters of crime fiction in literature, film, TV, and other media. What kind of emotions and affects do cities generate in crime fiction? How do specific urban places connect to crime, for instance by enhancing criminal activities or shielding people from them, creating places of danger and fear, or safety and community? In what ways are gender and urban spaces intertwined?
Workshop 3
Cultural heritage of popular culture
Professor Anna Sivula, University of Turku
Popular culture is an important source of the both tangible and intangible cultural heritage of urban and digital communities. This workshop explores the complex relationship between the cultural heritage and popular culture. In this group we explore the heritage communities that use the remnants of 20th and 21th century popular culture as places of memory. We are interested in the methodologies of critical heritage studies concerning the new heritages. We are also interested in the different kinds of case studies of the process, where the cultural heritage of popular culture emerges and is solidified.
Workshop 4
Temporal Uses of Urban Space
Dr Giacomo Bottá, University of Helsinki
This workshop explores temporary uses via popular music and analyses their significance on the basis of design, sustainability, profitability, creativity, inclusiveness and heritage. Are there different typologies of popular music-led temporary uses to be taken into account? What are their outcomes from the social and spatial dimension? What roles plays the temporary in festivals? How can we mobilize temporality to durable and long-lasting effects?
IIPC 