DRAFT PROGRAMME - SUBJECT to CHANGE
THURSDAY 14 MAY
09:40–11:00 Panel 1 · Sonic Practices & Performance Technologies
- 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
- 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
14:00–15:20 Panel 3 · Digital Heritage Platforms, Mapping & Grassroots Memory Work
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 — Platformization, Visibility & Media Historiography
- 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
FRIDAY 15 MAY
09:40–11:00 Panel 6 · Diaspora, Remix & Political Memory
- 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
- 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
14:00–15:20 Panel 8 · Gendered Nights, Politics & Community Care
- Nancy Aumais (ONLINE) — 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
- Liam Cagney — Seven Things Learned from Writing a Book about Techno
- 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
17:00–18:20 Parallel Block C
Track A · Panel 10A — Heritage, Lineage & Local Continuities
- 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
- Jan Géryk & Jana Tokarská — The Czech Pirate Party and its Pirate Rave Parties…
- Theresa Goldbach — Strangelove: Postpunk/Goth Dance Music And Chicanos on the US‑Mexico Border
- Charles “Chanse” McAlllister, Jr. — Pausing Time Through Playtime
Venue:
The conference takes place @Kampus Hybernská A3
Address: Hybernská 998/4, 110 00 Nové Město
Pre-conference get-together:
Wednesday 13 May 18:00 @Kampus Hybernská front yard
Side events/Public talks/Club visits:
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“Heritage, Memory and Community in Contemporary Electronic Music and Dance Cultures”
Curated and moderated by Lucia Udvardyová, Easterndaze
Tereza Patočková, VibeLab, Resident Advisor + Freddie Hudson, independent journalist
Thursday 14 May 20:00 @Planeta Za, Na Louži 7, 101 00 Praha 10-Vršovice -
“Heritage, Memory and Community in Freetekno”
Curated by Lukáš Rychetský, A2, moderated by DJ Raveboy
Midirama, Fuchs2
Friday 15 May 20:00 @Salo, ostrov Štvanice, 170 00 Praha 7-Holešovice
Afterparty:
F2 Live x DubClub Live: The Bug feat. Warrior Queen + Yukimura + Mudaki + Snow Lion + Alyaz
Saturday 16 May 21:00 @Fuchs2, ostrov Štvanice, 170 00 Praha 7-Holešovice
