2nd Global Conference (2009)

2nd Global Conference

Wednesday 11th November – Thursday 12th November 2009
Salzburg, Austria

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 11th November 2009
from 09.30
Registration

10.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Rob Fisher and Niall Scott

11:00
Session 1: Dissonance, Dissidents and Max Volume Technology
Chair: Niall Scott

Dissonance and Dissidents
Sarha Moore

Louder than Hell: Power Volume and the Brain
Colin McKinnon

Intelligent Equalisation principles and Techniques for Minimising Masking when Mixing the Extreme Modern Metal Genre
Mark Mynett

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 2: A Nation of Metal: Power, Nationalisms and Myth
Chair: Karl Spracklen

White Power Black Metal and Me: reflections on Composing the Nation
Caroline Lucas

Scandinavian Metal Attack: The Power of Northern Europe in Extreme Metal
Imke von Helden

Title to be Confirmed
Andreas Salmhofer

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 3: The Terrible Truth of Power and Aesthetics
Chair: Colin McKinnon

Living for Music, Dying for Life- The Self Destructive Lifestyle in Heavy Metal Culture
Daniel Frandsen

Metal Community and aesthetics of Identity
Igor Gafarov

More on Metal and the Aesthetic Experience of Tragic Art
Carmen Deanna

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Thursday 12^th November
09.00
Session 4: A Little Louder Please? The Power of Words Not So Softly Spoken
Chair: Imke von Helden

Spreading the Disease: How Scholarly Communication, Collaboration, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives are Establishing Heavy Metal Studies as a Rising Force
Brian Hickam

Communication Function in Estonian Metal Subculture
Lii Araste

“I’m a Metal head”: The Representation of Women Letter Writers in Kerrang! Magazine
Rosemary Hill

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 5: The Swagger of Death: Sex, Gender and Power
Chair: Daniel Frandsen

Den Mothers and Band Whores: Gender, Sex and Power in the Death Metal Scene
Sonia Vasan

Gorgoroth’s Gaahl’s Gay! Power, gender and the Communicative Discourse of the Black Metal Scene
Karl Spracklen

Harder, Faster, Stronger: Representations of Masculinities in Heavy Metal Music
Duygu Yildirim

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 6: The Power of Threat: Violence,  Language and Change
Chair: Carmen DeAnna

Machine Guns and Machine Gun Drums: Heavy Metal’s Portrayal of Warfare
Samir Puri

The Common Vernacular of Power Relations in Heavy Metal and Christian Fundamentalist Performances
Christine James:

Doing the Devil’s Work: Heavy Metal and the Threat to Public Order in the Muslim World
Mark Levine

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 7
Brian Hickam/steering group Discussion on MMP journal and what’s next in MMP

17.30
Conference Close