Online-Konferenz: ‘London Calling’, UK & Ireland IASPM Online Conference (19th May - 31st July 2020)

London Calling, the 15th UK & Ireland IASPM Online Conference started.

Registration is free for IASPM members
You can view the program and abstracts and register for the conference on the website: https://london-calling-iaspm2020.com/

There will be ten weekly sessions involving keynote speakers, video paper presentations, online concerts and more.

Program:
19th May – Theme: Multiculturalism and Diaspora
Keynote: Mykaell Riley (Westminster)
26th May – Theme: The Virtuoso and the Dilettante – Performing Popular Music
Keynote: Gareth Dylan Smith (NYU)
2nd June – Theme: Analysing Popular Music
Keynote: Lori Burns (Ottawa)
9th June – Theme: Anti-establishment, Rebellion and Commerce
Keynote: Matt Brennan (Glasgow)
16th June – Theme: Pedagogies of Popular Music Practice
Keynote: Kristina Kelman (Queensland University of Technology)
23rd June – Theme: Identity and Theatricality
Keynote: Stan Hawkins (Oslo)
30th June – Theme: Geographies of Popular Music and Transculturalism
Keynote: Britta Sweers (Bern)
7th July – Theme: The Industrial and Financial Mechanisms of Popular Music
Keynote: TBC
14th July – Theme: Live Music
Keynote: Steve Waksman (Smith University)
21st July – Theme: Music and Technology
Keynote: Samantha Bennett (Australian National University)

‘London Calling’ – the 15th UK & Ireland IASPM Conference, hosted by the University of West London, is moving to an online format. The conference is now going to spread for 10 weeks across the summer starting on May 19th and each week will have a theme with a keynote, at least one panel and a series of papers that relate to the theme / topic. ‘Papers’ will be uploaded videos with questions asked via a discussion board. The keynotes and the panels will be a combination of real-time (Zoom) and pre-recorded materials plus discussion forums.