This is the final programme, dated 29th June, changes are still possible but very unlikely. You can download the abstracts book (including program) below.
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DAY 1 Monday July 1
12.00-12.30 am. – Registration outside The Chamber Room (C405)
12.30-1.00 pm. – Welcome address The Chamber Room (C405)
Dr. Kimi Kärki, President of the European Popular Culture Association
Dr. Brigitta Davidjants, Local EUPOP 2022 organiser
1.00 am-2.00 pm. – Keynote address 1 – The Chamber Room (C405), Chair: Kimi Kärki
Dr. Brigitta Davidjants (Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre):
Different Shades of Nostalgia: Generational Musical Memory of the 1990s in Estonia and Armenia
2.00-2.30 pm. – Coffee/Tea (with a light meal)
2.30-4.00 pm. Parallel sessions 1
Panel – Activism, environment, art – The Chamber Room (C405), Chair: Karel Sima
Sini Mononen
Artistic and performative contention in the climate movement of the 21st century
Elena Siemens
The Personal Map: Three Case Studies
Karel Sima
The Mushrooms divide us! More-than-human borders in European popular culture
Panel – Bordering the cinema and comics – The Auditorium (A402), Chair: Pamela Church Gibson
Noora Kallioniemi
Film screenings in a border town, 1939-1944: The case of Viipuri
Nathan Snow
Blurring the Border of Viewer and Viewed: Cinesthetic Bodies in Aardman Animations
4.00-5.30 pm Parallel sessions 2
Panel – Fascism and popular culture – The Chamber Room (C405), Chair: Kimi Kärki.
Aila Mustamo Fascination of Fascism in Finnish Black Metal
Kimi Kärki
”Jesus was a Humanist, My God is Lucifer”: The Curious Case of Finnish Nazi Occultist Pekka Siitoin
Panel – Film, fashion, retromania – The Auditorium (A402), Chair: Pamela Church Gibson
Jacky Collins & Sarah Gilligan
‘Owning the space like a boss: costume, gender and performance in The Good Boss (2021) and Official Competition (2021)
Pamela Church Gibson & Alexandre Zamboni
Plastic Feminism: Fashion, Celebrity Culture, and the Marketing of the ‘Barbie’ Movie
Richard Denny
Reuse, Representation and Repurpose through the genre of Essay-Film in Academia & the Arts. The Lost Empires
7.00 pm. Conference dinner
F-Hoone (Telliskivi tn 60a)
DAY 2 Tuesday July 2
9.30-11.00 am. – Parallel sessions 3
Panel – Music, politics, machines – The Chamber Room (C405), Chair: Tommi Iivonen
Pertti Grönholm
Dystopias, Critique and Alienation – Machinic vocalities in the music of Kraftwerk, Laurie Anderson, and Cabaret Voltaire in 1980–1982
Janne Mäkelä
Making peace and politics: Finlandia as crossover spokesmusic
Johann Pibert Shaman’s “Struggle”. Russia’s Pop Music Propaganda since the Beginning of the War in Ukraine
Panel – Costuming and visual fashion – The Auditorium (A402), Chair: Graham H. Roberts
Annabel Lee
Madness is in the eye of the beholder: How McQueen’s Voss utilised audience and self-surveillance to construct the spectacle of madness
Frank New
Moschino x Barbie
Michelle Marshall
Envisioning Identity: The Confluence of Cultures in Fashion Image-Making
11.00-11.30 am. – Coffee/Tea
11.30-12.30 pm. – Parallel sessions 4
Panel – Film and transgression – The Chamber Room (C405), Chair: Kimmo Ahonen
Clare M. Wilkinson
What the nose knows: on the borders of recognition
Kimmo Ahonen
“God Is a Sadist, but Probably Doesn’t Even Know It” − Sam Peckinpah’s Cross of Iron (1977) and the Boundaries of Transnational Filmmaking
Panel – Power and transformations of music – A402, Chair: Kimi Kärki
Polina Holitsyna
Metal as the Universal Language: the Use of Transnational Symbols in the “Metal-Lore” of Estonian, Finnish and Ukrainian Extreme Metal Scenes
Kristina Stankeviciute
The playboys of the Singing Revolution: reflections on the transformations of the stage image of the Lithuanian (glam)rock group ANTIS
12.30-2.00 pm. – Lunch
2.00-3.00 pm. Online Roundtable – The Chamber Room (C405), Chair: Kimi Kärki.
Roundtable online discussion: Pop Goes the EU: Framing European Identity in Popular Culture (at Rowman & Littlefield) – engaging EPCA with the forthcoming book. With Dr. Jennifer Ostojski (Colgate University). Joining her in the online discussion: Dr. Ben Quail (University of Glasgow), Dr. Manuel R. Enverga III (Ateneo de Manila University), and Christopher Marcatili (Australian National University).
3.00-4.30 pm. – Parallel sessions 5
Panel – Sports and popular culture – The Chamber Room (C405), Chair: Graham H. Roberts
Christopher Hodge
No Ball Games: Embellishing hidden homophobia in football through fashioned Garment re-imagining and poetry
Brian Martin
An Analysis of the Irish Live Sports Streaming Environment
Graham H. Roberts
‘The Premier League’s very own David Bowie’: Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin as fashion icon
Panel – Film, literature and television – The Auditorium (A402), Chair: Maarit Leskelä-Kärki
K.A. Laity
Eating the Rich: Devouring European Splendour in Saltburn and The Talented Mr Ripley
David L. Moody The Story of a Three Day Pass (France 1967)—A closer look at the work of Melvin Van Peebles
Maarit Leskelä-Kärki
On the Borders of the Land and the Sea: Nature and Femininity in the Story of Stormskärs Maja
Panel – Historical mediums to digital imaginaries – Organ Hall (A-404), Chair: Anna Peltomäki
Michael Connerty
”Hooligan in his Element”: The Immigrant Irish in Victorian Comic Strips
Chris Cotton
Archiving Popular Culture: Navigating Evolving Requirements for Digitized Primary Sources
Sanna Qvick
Reels of historic costuming: music choices of social content creators
4.30-5.00 pm. – Coffee/Tea
5.00 pm. – Walking tour of Tallinn
7.00 pm. – Get together with wine and finger food
DAY 3 Wednesday July 3
9.30-11.30 am. – Parallel sessions 6
Panel – Queering the multimodal – The Chamber Room (C405), Chair: Pamela Church Gibson
Darren Elliott-Smith ‘Keep The Vampires From Your Door’: Collapsing the Borderlands of Queer Love/Horror in All of Us Strangers (Haigh 2024)
Benjamin Minchell
Dressing the Invisible Gay Man
Siri Lindholm
Representations of the Vulva in the Media
Marju Raju
Merging borders: case study of LGBTQ + mixed choir Vikerlased
Panel – Politics, heritage, transgressions – The Auditorium (A402), Chair: Anna Peltomäki
Maarja Merivoo-Parro
Humanitarian Aid and the Taste of Freedom: a Case Study of Olfactory Heritage
Isidora Salcedo de la O
Refugee experience through the leads of children literature’s analysis: “Refugee Boy” and “The Boy at the Back of the Class”
Tigran Simyan
On the problem of transition from mass culture to elite culture (by the example of Niko Pirosmani)
Anna Peltomäki
After the Music Museum: Studying the Endings within Popular Music Heritage
Panel – Music industry and subcultural identity – Organ Hall (A-404), Chair: Tommi Iivonen
Maasalu, Anita
Musical fan experience from a generational perspective: subcultural communication between parents and children
Dan Mollenkamp
Whose Borders Matter More: Spotify’s Impact on Welsh-Language Pop Artists
Tommi Iivonen
There’s No Point in Shouting from Margins to Mainstream: Underground and Counterculture Elements in the Music Scene of Pori
11.30-12.00 am. – Coffee/Tea
12.00-1.00 pm. – Keynote 2 The Chamber Room (C405), Chair: Pamela Church Gibson
Professor Louise Wallenberg (Media Studies, Stockholm University):
Perverting the Nation: On Drag Story Hours and Drag Phobia
1.00-1.30 pm. Conference closing words & Announcing EUPOP 2025 – The Chamber Room (C405)
Dr. Kimi Kärki
1.30 pm. – Lunch
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