4th Global Conference
Heavy Metal Generations
Wednesday 9th May – Friday 11th May 2012
Prague, Czech Republic
The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.
Final Conference Programme
Wednesday 9th May 2012
From 12.30
Conference Registration
13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Niall Scott
14.00
Session 1: Forward! A Barrage of Progress…
Chair: Rosemary Lucy Hill
Paper Title: The Speeding Bullet, the Smoking Gun: Tracing Metal Trajectories, from Sabbath to Satyricon….and Beyond
Andy Brown
Nu-Metal and the Politics of Postmodernity
Sónia Isabel de Meneses Pereira
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 2: Divisions and Diversions
Chair: Mark Deeks
Belfast City Blues: Northern Ireland, The Troubles and Mama’s Boys / Celtus
Michael J K Walsh
Black Metal: Stone Vengeance and the Racial Politics of Heavy Metal
Kevin Fellezs
17.30
Notices and Announcements
17.40
Wine Reception
Thursday 10th May 2012
09.00
Session 3: Global Progress
Chair: Susanna Larsson
Heavy Conditions. Power Metal in Madagascar
Markus Verne
“Where Hath the Apostles Gone?”: Glocalising Heavy Metal – A Case Study of Pakistan
Hassan Asif
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 4: Head Bang Up- to- Date
Chair: Karl Spracklen
Crafting Cultural Narratives: Explorations of the Nightwish Imaginaerum Concept from Script to Play
Toni-Matti Karjalainen
Metal Outside it’s Traditional “Home”
Igor Gafarov
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 5: The Vikings are Coming (Again)
Chair: Kevin Fellez
Viking Heritage: The Creation of a Personal and National Identity through History and Metal
Ashley Walsh
Nordic Heavy Metal as a Representation of Place
Mark Deeks
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 6: Workshop: Heavy Metal Funeral Rites: Age, Death and Progress
Chair: Niall Scott
Friday 11th May 2012
09:00
Session 7: Too Old to Die Young, Too Young to Cry Wolf
Chair: Hassan Asif
Too Old to Raise the Horns? Getting Older on the Metal Scene and the Politics of Intentionality: A Case Study of Second Generation Norwegian BM Bands
Karl Spracklen
Wolves in The Throne Room: Time, Autochthony and Transcendence in Contemporary (Post)-Black Metal
Amelia-Roisin Seifert
10:30
Coffee
11.00
Session 8: Only the Youth Can Rebel, No?
Chair: Sónia Isabel de Meneses Pereira
“Like a Trojan Horse Among the Average Joes”: Acknowledging, Upholding and Reproducing Alienation and Rebelliousness Within Heavy Metal Culture
Susanna Larsson
Short Film Presentation: Metal T-shirts
Amelia Rosin Seifert
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 9: Sources of Pleasure
Chair: Andy Brown
Pleasure in Metal: What Women Fans Like About Hard Rock and Metal Music
Rosemary Lucy Hill
Thumb-Bangers: Exploring the Natural Bond Between Video Games and Heavy Metal
Louis-Martin Guay
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Development meeting and closing remarks
17.00
Conference Ends
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