Saturday 18th March 2023
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and Opening Words: Adriana Amaral
09:30 – 10:30 Session 1: Digital Pop Culture and Platforms
Chair: Antonia MacDonald
Memefication as Pop-Cultural Self-Preservation: Television, (pre-)Internet Memes, and Referentiality
Jana Zündel
NAZI GOTHS, F*CK OFF! Reflexions on “cancelling” Subcultures. The Case of Brandon Pybos, Singer of Sonsombre Gothic Rock Band.
Adriana Amaral
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2 Pop Cultures from the Global South
Chair: Jana Zündel
Jab Jab is all of we ‘ting
Antonia MacDonald
Cine Quebrada Collective: Urban Daily Life, Ancestry and Meanings of Pop Culture in Bixiga (São Paulo/Brazil)
Simone Luci Pereira
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Creative Writing e and its Interfaces with Pop Culture
Chair: Cindy Withjack
“Oh, shit. Should I Be Joking at a Time Like This?”: Generation (Sincerit)Y, Trauma, and Performance in Bo Burnham’s Inside’
Cindy Withjack
Typography as Image and Construction as Seen in a Science Fiction Book Cover
Karin Wagner
Dancing About Architecture: Pop Music Writing in the 21st Century
Arthur Lizie
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:00 Session 4: Interactive Session Presentations and Q&As
Chair: Adriana Amaral
Presentations and Q&As
17:00 – 17:45 End of Opening Day Discussion and Consolidation
17:45 Wine and Drinks Reception
Sunday 19th March 2023
09:00 – 10:30 Session 5: Audiovisual Pop Cultures
Chair: Clarice Greco
Hosts or Humans: The Anthropomorphization of Robots in Westworld
Julia Barroso da Silveira
Social Representation in Pop Culture: An Intersectional Analysis of LGBTQIA+ Characters from the Netflix series 3%
Clarice Greco
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:00 Session 6: Future Pop Culture Projects
Chair: Adriana Amaral
Publications, projects, developmental collaborations
12:00 – 12:30 Session 7:
Discussion and Morning Consolidation
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 8: Pop Music and Identities
Chair: Cristina Pérez-Ordóñez
Contemporary Outdoor Pop-Rock Festivals: The Counterculture Hippie Transformed into a Mainstream Commodity
Cristina Pérez-Ordóñez
Allow Me to Play for You the Song of my People: Qualities of Global Pop Anthems
Harry Brisson
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:00 Session 9: Pop Music and Global Networks
Chair: Maki Sadahiro
Alternative Music in Global Networks: Magazine Uni in Czech Postsocialism
Ondřej Daniel
American Rock Music’s Influence in Czech
Maki Sadahiro (debate)
Q&A
17:00 – 17:30 Discussion and Day 2 Consolidation
17:30 – 18:00 Project Development
Closing Thoughts and Goodbyes