PUNK

Words, music, politics, influence

North America's first international scholarly conference on punk WAS to be held at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, on April 24-26, 2008. Unfortunately institutional support has not been what we have hoped and we do not feel we have a sufficient number of proposals to mount a successful conference. We are, therefore, going to postpone the conference. Our plan now is to hold the conference in the spring of 2009 once we have secured the support that we need to make the event worthy of the subject and our university. Apologies to all those who sent in proposals and offered to help.

If you have any questions, please contact

Paul Budra at budra@sfu.ca or Stephen Ogden at ogden@sfu.ca

And check out the official conference blog, run by both of us: punk conference blog

THE PUNK ARCHIVE: Special Collections, in SFU's Bennett Library, is beginning to assemble material for the world's first punk archive. If you have punk material (posters and signs, chapbooks, punk manuscripts of any sort, song lyrics, LPs & CDs, etc.) consider donating them to the library. They will be preserved forever and used by scholars for generations. Contact Eric Swanick for details.