19 April 2013, University of Reading
Session 1: All Around the World
‘Sounds of a ‘rotting city’: Punk in Russia’s Arctic Hinterland’
Hilary Pilkington
‘Punk (and anarchism) in Indonesia: transition, politics, religion’
Jim Donaghey
‘Atomic Attack and Nuclear Accidents: From Hiroshima to Fukushima, transmissions of shared anti-nuclear aesthetics between European and Japanese punk culture (1980 to the present)’ Alastair Gordon
’80 Million Hooligans: The German asylum debate, racism and xenophobia in German punk song lyrics of the nineties’
Melani Schroeter
‘Punk in contemporary Russia: Putin, politics and Pussy Riot’
Gareth Dylan Smith and Leo Deanocs
Session 2: War Across the Nation
‘Hitsville UK: Punk and Graphic Design in the Faraway Towns, 1976- 84’
Russ Bestley (London College of Communication):
‘Death to Trad Historicism: Futuremania, Avant-Gardism and Scottish Post-Punk 1985’
Pete Dale (Oxford Brookes)
‘Getting it wrong, but in the right way: a provincial punk in the UK’
Paul Harvey (Tyne Metropolitan College)