MONDAY 16th December
9.00 – Registration/Reception
9.30 – WELCOME & KEYNOTE ONE: Paul Hegarty [The Boiler House]
[tea/coffee]
SESSION ONE: 11-12.30
Panel 1A: Punk, Noise & Geopolitics
Room G.11, Armstrong Building
Michael Hepworth (Sunderland University) – ‘Punk, noise and transgression: Anarchy in the UK? Adult migrants make some noise!’
John Parham (University of Worcester) – ‘Extinction’s Noisy Rebellion: A Punk Anthropocene?’
Lyndon Way (University of Liverpool) – ‘Punks’ political opposition in Turkey: Noise against authoritarianism’
CHAIR: Paul Hollins
Panel 1B: Scenes, Settings, Systems
Room G.15, Armstrong Building
Ellen Bernhard (Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia) – ‘Crowdfunding a Scene: GoFundMe, Norms of Reciprocity and Social (Media) Capital in Contemporary Punk Rock Communities’
Theo Gowans (Leeds University) – ‘How Disruption Within Noise Performances Creates a Unique Capacity for Nonhierarchal Socialising’
Adam Denton (Newcastle University) – ‘Locating the Scene(s): Where Shall We Put It?’
CHAIR: Stewart Smith
Panel 1C: Aggression/Abjection/Transgression 1
Room G.17, Armstrong Building
Céline Murillo (University of Paris 13 (Sorbonne Paris Cité)) – ‘From Aggression to Transgression: No Wave Films and Their music’
Laura Way (Bishop Grosseteste UniversityLincoln) – ‘Why punk? Exploring women’s initial exposure/attraction to punk and how this is negotiated alongside gendered ageing’
Renée Steffen (University of Basel) – ‘Abjection in Queer Film and Video’
CHAIR: Marie Thompson
[lunch]
SESSION TWO: 13.30-5.00
Panel 2A: Scenes & Localities
Room G.11, Armstrong Building
Grainne Milner-McLoone (Newcastle University) – ‘Punk/Noise and Aggression in Northern Ireland’
Stewart Smith (Music Journalist & Independent Scholar) – ‘Beyond The Valley of Ultrahits: Some Observations of the Glasgow Underground’
Karina Barbosa (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil) – ‘“I Am Proud To Be How I Am”: Gender and Sexuality Statements in Brazilian Punk Feminist Music Scene’
CHAIR: Matt Grimes
Panel 2B: Aggression/Abjection/Transgression 2
Room G.15, Armstrong Building
Benedict Quilter (Co-Founder Independent Woman Records, NZ) – ‘Oedipus Rex: On the Myth Of Transgression In Noise Music’
Adam Soper (Newcastle University) – ‘Swastika Girls: The Use of Nazi Imagery in Popular (Oc)culture and the Neo-folk’
James Anderson (University of Sunderland) – ‘Punk, Porn, and Politics: Pornographic Profanity in British First-Wave Punk’
CHAIR: Lyndon Way
Panel 2C: Punk Through Narrative & Identity
Room G.17, Armstrong Building
Jessica Blaise Ward (Leeds Beckett University) – ‘Who remembers post-punk women?’
Melodie Holliday (Editor & Educational Development Shades of Noir) – ‘“It was different” Navigating Punk While Black’
Louise Barrière (University of Lorraine, France) – ‘A “Very DIY Music” For Punk-Feminist People? Doing and listening to noise music in Ladyfest-inspired festivals’
CHAIR: Jessica Schwartz
[tea/coffee]
SESSION THREE: 15.30-17.30
Panel 3A: Text & Context
Robert Boyle Lecture Theatre, Armstrong Building
Kevin Quinn (Central Saint Martins, UAL) – ‘The New Musical Express: Reporting the Southall Riot (1981)’
Arin Keeble (Edinburgh Napier University) – ‘Jawbreaker: Literary Punk and Authenticity’
Pete Dale (Manchester Metropolitan University) – ‘Indie Noise’ and Industry Incorporation: Fuzz and Feedback in the 1980s’
Gary Charles (University of Birmingham) – ‘Skillz 2.0: Anyone Can Play AI’
CHAIR: Craig Pollard
Panel 3B: Interrogating Contexts
The Boiler House
Daniel Blumberg (Mute Records) & Elvin Brandhi (Akademie de bildende Künste, Vienna) – Bakh
Peter J Woods (University of Wisconsin, Madison) – ‘Fluxus Event For Academic Conferences’
Yol (Independent scholar, Hull) – ‘REPEATED/FRACTURED/MEANING’
Phame* (Si Paton & ykxa s) – ‘Throwing Shade (No, Fuck you)’
* Simon Paton (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University) & Jessica A Schwartz (UCLA)
CHAIR: Russ Bestley
EVENING SHOW 19.00-22.00 [TOPH @ Alphabetti Theatre]
Guttersnipe, BLØM, Elvin Brandhi + Plastiglomerate X Territorial Gobbing
TUESDAY 17th December
9.30 KEYNOTE TWO: Marie Thompson [The Boiler House]
[tea/coffee]
SESSION FOUR: 10.30-12.00
Panel 4A: HarshNoiseWall & Its Discontents
The Boiler House
Lexi Turner (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY) – ‘Ballet Shoes, Butchers Knives and Black Leather Gloves: Narrative of the Body in Harsh Noise Wall’
Peter J. Woods (University of Wisconsin, Madison) – ‘Defining Noise-As-Gesture: Mapping the Politics of Abjected Sound Through Con-Dom and Moor Mother’
Michael Blenkarn (Newcastle University) – ‘Anxiety Silenced: Harsh Noise Wall as a Means of Attenuating the Experience of Anxiety’
CHAIR: Gretchen Aury
Panel 4B: Anti-Professionalism
Robert Boyle Lecture Theatre, Armstrong Building
Ian Trowell (Independent scholar based in the Fens) – ‘Where the system starts: Throbbing Gristle vs Architectural Association’
Chris Bailey (Plymouth College of Art) – ‘Imperfect Orchestra – A Battle Between Performance and Ethos’
David Howcroft (No Audience Underground Tapes) – ‘The Manifesto’
CHAIR: Charlie Bramley
[lunch]
SESSION FIVE: 13.00-14.30
Panel 5A: US Hardcore, Punk & Dissemination
The Boiler House
Daniel Makagon (DePaul University, Chicago) – ‘Punk’s Decisive Moments: Seeing the Scene through Photozines’
Jessica Schwartz (University of California, Los Angeles) – ‘Los Angeles Punk Through Noise & Nausea’
Craig Pollard (Newcastle University) – ‘Exposing (and exploding) contradictions: particular trajectories of US hardcore’
CHAIR: Pete Dale
Panel 5B: Metal Machine Music vs. the Harsh Noise Wall
Robert Boyle Lecture Theatre, Armstrong Building
Marko Djurdjic (York University, Toronto) – ‘“My week beats your year”: On Listening to Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music’
Elvin Brandhi (Akademie de bildende Künste, Vienna) – ‘Punk Conference’
Paul Hollins (University of Bolton & Leeds College of Music), Sean Albiez (Author and Independent Scholar) & Anthony Roocroft (University of Bolton) – ‘The Best Worst Noise Ever Made? (A Non Discursive, Discursive Experimental Performance Piece)’
CHAIR: Arin Keeble
[tea/coffee]
SESSION SIX: 15.00-16.00
Panel 6A: Curation & Disruption
The Boiler House
Francis Stewart (Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln) – ‘Sounds of the (marginalised punk) underground: the use of noise in punk curation and narration’
Russ Bestley (London College of Communication, UAL) – ‘Visual Noise: Punk Graphic Design and Visual Disruption’
CHAIR: Ellen Bernhard
Panel 6B: Mythologies’ Interwoven Extremities
Robert Boyle Lecture Theatre, Armstrong Building
Clive Henry (Independent scholar, Southampton) – ‘Modern HNW is Rubbish’
Tom Cardwell (Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL) & Mark Gubb (University of Worcester) – ‘“Hiraeth” – a collaborative project’
CHAIR: Will Edmondes
16.00 KEYNOTE THREE: Sezgin Boynik [The Boiler House]
17.00 [CLOSE]