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WEDNESDAY 13 MAY


18:00 · Pre-conference get-together @Kampus Hybernská front yard

THURSDAY 14 MAY

09:40–11:00  Panel 1 · Sonic Practices & Performance Technologies.

Chair: David Aaron Swartz

  • Ana Rita Costa — Resonance on the Dancefloor: Spatial Sound and DJ Performance as Collective Practice
  • Manoli Moriaty — Vinyl DJing as Situated Musicianship in Electronic Music Dance Cultures
  • Jack McNeill — The Nightclub as an Interface for Performance: Improvisation, social performances and frameworks for aesthetic production

 

11:10–12:30  Panel 2 · Audibility, Urban Space & “Underground” Contexts

Chair: Timo Koren

  • Charlie White — Right to Noise: Negotiating Club Sound in Manchester and Berlin
  • Dorottya Herbály — The Impact of State Intervention on Budapest’s Electronic Music Heritage
  • Richard Anderson — The Underground as Context: Deconstructing club culture myths for an empirically founded definition

 

12:30–14:00  LUNCH (sound curators Mark RJ Higgins and Wren Jayasekara)

14:00–15:20  Panel 3 · Digital Heritage Platforms, Mapping & Grassroots Memory Work

Chair: Manoli Moriaty

  • Matthias Pasdzierny — Mapping Electronic Dance Music Heritage: Towards a Collaborative Online Platform
  • Richard Anderson — Mapping Liverpool’s Vanished Dance Music Landscapes
  • Lorenzo Montefinese — Keep the fire burning. Dance music culture, grassroots memory work, and online environments

 

15:30–16:50  Parallel Block A

Track A · Panel 4A — Berlin Techno Heritage & Cultural Boundaries

Chair: Mark RJ Higgins

  • Anita Jóri (with Steffen Lepa) — Archiving Berlin Techno: Building a digital archive for immaterial cultural heritage
  • Timo Koren — Club cultures as heritage: Berlin Techno and its Others
  • Maximilian Wehner (with Steffen Lepa) — Profiling the Post-Pandemic Techno Scene in the Wider Berlin Area

 

Track B · Panel 4B — Aesthetics, Genealogies & Revivals

Chair: Richard Anderson 

  • Ana Marjalizo — Breaking the timeline: the uncanny aesthetics on experimental electronic music, a reflection on dissent music production techniques
  • Mark RJ Higgins (with Diego Florencia) — Mythos versus music: an alternative stylistic genealogy of dubstep
  • Wren Jayasekara — What really happened to Electroclash? Y2K, Hyperpop, and the Electroclash revival

 

17:00–18:20  Parallel Block B

Track A · Panel 5A — Bodies as Archives: Embodiment, Well‑being, Somatic Recall

Chair: Beate Peter

  • Maren Hancock — Embodiment, Memory, and the Global Circuits of Toronto Rave Culture(s)
  • Mark van Bergen — Pre‑ and Afterparty Affect: Exploring Well‑being Beyond Electronic Dance Music Events
  • Stephanie SK Marbach — Dancing Memory: Somatic Recall and Embodied Archives in Electronic Dance Music Culture

 

Track B · Panel 5B — Politics, Visibility & Media Historiography

Chair: Wren Jayasekara 

  • Andreas Kandolf (with Steffen Lepa) — From Underground Selection to Metric Visibility: Platformization, Cultural Intermediaries, and the Reconfiguration of Scene Recognition in Contemporary Techno
  • Pia Raddatz — On The Analysis of German Club Culture TV Documentaries: Confirming/Contesting Hegemony in Club Culture Historiography and Heritagisation?
  • Zoe Armour — Media Celebrity Capital? Framing the Performance of Taste in Super‑club Culture

20:00 · Public talk/side event/club visit @Planeta Za, Na Louži 7, 101 00 Praha 10-Vršovice  

“Heritage, Memory and Community in Contemporary Electronic Music and Dance Cultures”
Curated and moderated by Lucia Udvardyová, Easterndaze w Tereza Patočková, VibeLab, Resident Advisor and Freddie Hudson, independent journalist 

FRIDAY 15 MAY

09:40–11:00  Panel 6 · Diaspora, Remix & Political Memory

Chair: Theresa Goldbach

  • Dylan Davis (ONLINE) — Friends, Family, and Raves. In conversation with Latin American Electronic Dance Music Producers.
  • Ioannis Christidis — From the Syrian Streets to EDM Reworks on SWANA Dancefloors in Europe
  • Daniel Lee — Three Months Front Left: Reflections on South Africa’s Queer and Underground Nightlife, post-apartheid & post-COVID

 

11:10–12:30  Panel 7 · Inclusion, Transfer & Community Formation

Chair: Matthias Pasdzierny

  • Carla Vecchiola — There Are Two Detroits: Home and for Company
  • Yagmur Saglam — “Junglist Massive:” or Understanding the Operational Logic of Social Space Through Genre Based Community Formation
  • César Lugo‑Elías (ONLINE) — “Dance Floors as Band‑Aids in the Social Fabric”: Strategies for Inclusion, Transfer, and Community in Central Mexico

 

12:30–14:00  LUNCH (sound curator Theresa Goldbach)

14:00–15:20  Panel 8 · Gendered Nights, Politics & Community Care

Chair: Anita Jóri

  • Nancy Aumais (ONLINE, Google Meet) — Whose Night? Gendered Blind Spots in Night Studies
  • Beate Peter and Leonie Facius — Raves as agonistic encounters: Towards more resilient democracies
  • Katherine Griffiths — Flyers, playlists and memories of a night at WKD, Camden, London, in the early 1990s…

 

15:30–16:50  Panel 9 · Techno Knowledge Infrastructures: Writing, Archives, and Sonic Ecologies

Chair: Mark Van Bergen

  • David Aaron Swartz (with Emília Simão) — The Urgencies of Archival Dominion and Access: Risking Queer Club Culture Erasure
  • Rasmus Riegels Sørensen — Attuning to the Rumble: Techno, Sonic Tactility, and Agential Ecologies
  • Matthias Pasdzierny — Mapping Electronic Dance Music Heritage: Towards a Collaborative Online Platform 

 

17:00–18:20  Parallel Block C

Track A · Panel 10A — Heritage, Lineage & Local Continuities

Chair: Carla Vecchiola

  • Julijana Papazova — The Meaning of PMG Kolektiv… in Skopje
  • Filippo Marani Tassinari — The Beatmaker at the Threshold… Sonic Ancestry in Flying Lotus
  • Sejake Matsela — Evolution and the Sound of Politics in a New Century
  • Joel Ocañas — Making Space Where None Is Given: DIY Rave Culture in Texas’s Infrastructural Margins

 

Track B · Panel 10B — Subculture, Identity & Political Practice

Chair: Graham St John 

  • Andreas Kandolf (with Steffen Lepa) — From Underground Selection to Metric Visibility: Platformization, Cultural Intermediaries, and the Reconfiguration of Scene Recognition in Contemporary Techno 
  • Theresa Goldbach — Strangelove: Postpunk/Goth Dance Music And Chicanos on the US‑Mexico Border
  • Charles “Chanse” McAlllister, Jr. — Pausing Time Through Playtime

SATURDAY 16 MAY 

21:00 · Afterparty @Fuchs2, ostrov Štvanice, 170 00 Praha 7-Holešovice
F2 Live x DubClub Live: The Bug feat. Warrior Queen + Yukimura + Mudaki + Snow Lion + Alyaz
Entry offered by the organization, RSVP 15 May noon at the registration