The symposium will be based in room 107 on the first floor of the Binks Building on our main (Parkgate Road) campus. It will start at 9.15am and finish at 5pm.
We also have an FAQ page.
Papers (except the keynote) will be 20 minutes in length.
Presentations will be organized into streams
to accommodate all participants.
to accommodate all participants.
CLICK HERE FOR ABSTRACTS.
THE LIST OF SPEAKERS IS AS FOLLOWS…
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Professor
Cornel Sandvoss (University of Huddersfield) - To
Listen and to Make Yourself Heard: Value, Identity and Citizenship in Popular
Music Fandom
OTHER SPEAKERS:
Chris Anderton (Southampton Solent
University) - Curating, Collecting and Archiving: Fan Labour and the Conflicts
of Copyright
Daisy Asquith & Lucy Robinson (University
of Sussex) - Crazy About One Direction: The Public and Private of Documentary
and Contemporary Fan Culture
Safa Canalp (Istanbul Technical University) - Reading Collaborative Music
Database as a Public Sphere
Leonieke Bolderman (Erasmus University
Rotterdam) - Have You found What You’re Looking For? On Music Tourism as Fan
Practice
Rachel Cohen, Julian Hunt & Charles
Musselwhite (Swansea
University) - Prog and Punk Collisions: A
Lifecourse Approach to Fandom, Affect and the Public Display of Emotion
Pete Dale (Manchester Metropolitan
University) - Unpacking My Record Collection: The Matter of
the Fan
Helen Elizabeth Davies (University of
Liverpool) - “Something Private to me”: Closet music Fandom and Gender Identity
in the Everyday Lives of Young Teenage Girls
Lucy Dearn (University of Sheffield) -
Audience or Fan Community: Exploring Ideas of Fandom and Public Spheres in
Classical Music
Simone Driessen (Erasmus University
Rotterdam) - "Larger than Life": Insights in the Post-Youth Fandom of the
Backstreet Boys
Bethany Easton - Apple Scruffs: An Oral History
Mat Flynn (Liverpool Institute for
Performing Arts) - Valuing Fan Engagement in a Recorded Music Attention Economy
Neil Fox (Falmouth University) - We Made This Together: How “Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That!”
Foresaw changes in the Live Concert Experience brought about by
Digital Technology and Social Media
Georgina Gregory (University of Central
Lancashire) - The Power of Love: Imitation, Embodiment and Erotic Capital
Bethan Jones (Aberystwyth University) -
“My Music was on Shuffle, One of Their Songs Came on and I Had to Hit Next...”:
Navigating Grief and Disgust in Lostprophets
Fandom
Milena Popova (UWE Bristol) - Real
Person Fan Fiction as a Public Sphere
Shanika Ranasinghe (Royal Holloway,
University of London) – “So I Thank ABBA for the Music, for
Giving it to Me”: ABBA Fandom in the Twenty-First Century
Ciaran Ryan (Mary
Immaculate College, Limerick) - Transforming Personal Music Fanzine
Collections into Public Displays of Fandom
Carla Schriever (University of Oldenburg)
- The Unutterable Desire for Prince: Male fan Adoration and Concealing
Techniques
Michael Skey & Maria Kyriakidou (University
of East Anglia) – “This Isn’t a One-night Event, it is a Lifestyle”:
Eurovision,
Micro-Publics and the Significance of Fan-produced Media
Veronica Skrimsjö (Liverpool Hope
University) - Value in the “Worthless”: A Case Study of Easy Listening and
Record Collecting
Peter Smith (University of Sunderland) - Making Private Experiences Public:
Creating a Blog of Rock Performance
Gayle S. Stever (Empire State
College/SUNY) - Social Presence and Celebrity/Fan Activism: Experiencing
Virtual Fandom as "Real"
Alicia Stark (Cardiff University) – “By
Regular People, for Regular People”: VOCALOID Fans as Creators of their own
Artefacts
Cibrán Tenreiro (Universidade de
Santiago de Compostela) - Fan Concert Videos: Home movies for a Music Fandom
Elizabeth Wood (University of
California, Riverside) - Intimate Connections: A Theory of Music and Technology
Rafal Zaborowski (London School of Economics and
Political Science) - Fans,
Idols and Offices: Musical Co-evolution in Japan
To see the event's original CFP (now past) click here.
Organized by:
Dr Mark Duffett, University of Chester.
Dr Koos Zwaan, InHolland University of Applied Sciences.
If you have any questions about the day please email: m.duffett@chester.ac.uk
