Adriana Amaral has a PhD in Communication Studies from Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). She is a professor at Communication Studies Post-Graduate Program at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos […]
Motti Regev is Professor of Sociology at the Open University of Israel. He is a cultural sociologist. He has served on the editorial boards of Journal of World Popular Music, Popular Music, European Journal […]
Marion Leonard is Senior Lecturer in the School of Music and member of the Institute of Popular Music. She is author of Gender in the Music Industry (Ashgate, 2007) and co-editor of The Beat Goes […]
Website Paula Guerra is convenor of KISMIF Conference. She is Professor of Sociology at Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP, Portugal), and senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology of […]
Simone Pereira de Sá has a PhD and Master in Communication and Culture Studies and BA in Social Sciences at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ/ Brazil). Currently, she is Professor at Media and Cultural Studies […]
Don Letts is another figure very well known by the most of us. We are pleased to announce his presence at KISMIF Conference, not only to speak, as keynote speaker, about his rich experience, but […]
We are pleased to announce that the third edition of KISMIF Conference will count with the participation of Steve Ignorant as keynote speaker to talk about his great experience on music and resistance practices. For […]
KISMIF Conference 2016 has the privilege to announce the presence of Billy Bragg, as keynote speaker, on 18 July. His political activism has been a hallmark in recent times. Billy Bragg is a British singer, songwriter, […]
Antoine Hennion is a Professor at Mines ParisTech and the former Director of the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI, 1994-2002). He has a PhD in sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en […]
Website Gina Arnold is an American author, music critic, and academic. Adjunct Professor at Department of Rhetoric and Languages and Department of Media Studies of the University of San Francisco. She holds a PhD in […]
Website Catherine Strong has a PhD in Sociology from the Australian National University. Her thesis looked at grunge music and collective memory, and has since been published as Grunge: Music and Memory with Ashgate (2011). […]
Website Samantha Bennett is a sound recordist and academic from London, UK. An AHRC Doctoral Scholar, she is currently Associate Professor at the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. Her research focuses on recorded […]