Year: 2010

CFP: IASPM Australia-New Zealand Annual Conference

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Instruments of Change

24-26 November 2010
Monash Conference Centre
Level 7, 30 Collins Street, Melbourne
School of English, Communications and Performance Studies / School of Music
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Conference Theme

Popular music is a dynamic cultural force. The acts of listening, playing, dancing, composing and recording are undertaken in a constant state of flux, further complicated by flows of space and time. This conference invites papers that consider popular music as a powerful social agent. This may include analysis of current or past uses of music instruments as the sound-producing objects of change, or particular uses of technologies and human voices of change. The conference also welcomes investigations of the institutions and discourses within which the sound, the event and the experience are created, and their relationships to social change.

Proposals are invited across (but not necessarily exclusive to) the following areas:

• Popular music and political action
• Popular music and education
• Popular music within the Asia-Pacific
• Popular music and cultural governance
• Heritage and history
• Organology
• Popular music technologies
• Popular music scenes and communities

Abstract Submission

Abstracts (no more than 250 words) should be emailed to Dr Shane Homan (Shane.Homan@arts.monash.edu.au) as a Word document by 3 May 2010. Please use your surname as the title of your Word document. The abstract must include:

• Name of presenter(s)
• Title of paper
• Institution
• Contact phone numbers and email address
• Abstract (250 words or less)
• Consideration for 2010 IASPM ANZ postgraduate prize (Yes/No)

NOTE: all conference delegates must be current financial members of IASPM.

IASPM-ANZ Postgraduate Prize

Each year, IASPM-ANZ awards one postgraduate presenter with the IASPM-ANZ Postgraduate Prize for the best paper. An independent panel of established members determines the AUD$100 prize. To be considered for this prize, you must be currently enrolled as a postgraduate student. Please indicate your interest in being considered for this prize when submitting your abstract.

Conference Grants for Postgraduates

A grant of AUD$100 to assist with conference travel and related expenses is available to:
1. Postgraduate students
2. Indigenous performers assisting with the presentation of a paper

Eligibility

• The conference committee must have accepted the presenter’s paper
• Students and indigenous performers who live in the city where the conference is being held are ineligible
• All postgraduate students must be IASPM-ANZ members, or willing to join, to be eligible for the travel grant
• Applicants are ineligible for this subsidy if they have already secured, or intend to secure, funding of more than $500 for conference travel from an alternative source (e.g. institutional support)

Applicants for the Postgraduate Student Travel Grant OR Indigenous Assistant Travel Grant should provide:

• A short letter of application, including their name, address and paper title
• A copy of all paid travel documents (e.g. airline tickets)
• For postgraduate students, proof of current student status (e.g. a copy/scan of ID or letter from supervisor)

Successful applicants will be reimbursed upon receipt of these documents. Please contact IASPM-ANZ Treasurer Jennifer Cattermole to discuss your eligibility or to ask for further information: jennifer.cattermole@gmail.com.

Conference Registration

Full program (Early Bird Rate*)
• Waged members: $AUD160.00
• Unwaged/students: $AUD120.00

*Early Bird Rate ends 4 October 2010.

Full program (Normal Rate*)
• Waged members: $AUD200.00
• Unwaged/students: $AUD160.00

*Normal Rate is charged from 4 October 2010.

Single Day
Waged members: $AUD70.00
Unwaged/students: $AUD40.00

Registration forms and payment will be organised through the Monash website shortly.

For further information or queries, please contact the conference organisers:

Dr Graeme Smith
Graeme.Smith@arts.monash.edu.au
Phone: 61-3-99053233

Dr Shane Homan
Shane.Homan@arts.monash.edu.au
Phone: 61-3-99032309

Dr Jen Cattermole
jennifer.cattermole@gmail.com
Phone: 61-3-99032326

IAPMS Conference 2010: Panels Announced

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Update: Panel timetable and schedule sheets were updated (Feb. 19, 2010, 20:00 Seoul). If you have submitted a proposal, but didn’t received an announcement email or if your name is not listed in the schedule, please let us know at asianpopstudies@gmail.com.
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Dear Authors/ Panelists / Chairs

First, we are sorry for the delay. We needed some more time for the discussion.

Thanks for submitting paper/ panels to IAPMS 2010. Please be reminded that the conference will be hosted by School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong on June 22-23, 2010.

Congratulation. Your paper/ panel is accepted for presentation. Surprisingly, we have over 50 submissions and all of them are good and interesting. In the first conference, we accepted all the papers submitted, and in our coming conference, we would like to keep the same good tradition (except for scholars submitting for more than one paper) so that we can make our conference a chance for meeting researchers in Asia music/pop.

However, as our interasia popular music group, which has been an informal network, is getting larger and larger, it might not be possible that in future (in our next conference) we can accommodate all papers/ panels. And because of the pool of members is getting larger, we might also need to set up a more formal structure and organization. All these will be discussed formally and informally in/before the conference in June 2010. Your suggestions are most welcome.

The accepted panels (with date/time/venue) are all listed in the two files attached. Please notice that all the conference will be all held in the three rooms of the same building (NAH208, NAH415, NAH315C in Humanities Building at New Asia College) of the School. For direction, please go to our official website. Please keep in mind the campus of the faculty is located at the top of hill (for somebody, it looks ‘mountain’, so that it is impossible to get there by walk. Please use shuttle bus and pay attention to the time table (Please doublecheck the webpage: https://interasiapop.org/?p=247)

For the effective organization of the conference, we decided that only the papers by those who submit the registration form on due time will be listed on the final program (see the last attached file). If you cannot make on time or pull out your participation, please tell us until 31 March, which is the deadline of registration, which is already announced. So please keep in mind the program schedule in the attached file is only tentative and subject to change.

If you need a letter of invitation, please do contact Hyunjoon Shin / Jung-yup Lee (asianpopstudies@gmail.com) or to local host Anthony Fung In case you discover that you are not able to come, please contact Hyunjoon / Jung-yup too. For the panels and other enquries, please do contact Anthony Fung (anthonyfung@cuhk.edu.hk).

Best Regards,
Organizing Committee

Attachments:
Panels list [xls]
Tentative schedule [doc]
Registration form [doc]