Recent Conference Presentations
2025
“This next one’s a cover!”: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes go to camp,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March.
2024
“Don’t call me white: A set of contemplations on (or contemporary complications of) the Jewish problem in punk.” With Schwartz, Jessica. Punk Scholars Network Conference and Postgraduate Symposium, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK, December.
Educational Dissidence: The Punk Scholars Network & challenges to the neoliberal university. With Schwartz, Jessica. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Chicago, Illinois, March.
2023
“The NEPA effect: The Menzingers’ sense of place as a nostalgic act, Punk Scholars Network Conference and Postgraduate Symposium, Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe, United Kingdom, December.
“‘Another day the way things should be’: The Bouncing Souls’ How I Spent My Summer Vacation and its significance in the life of a 14-year-old punk researcher,” Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November.
“‘We’re going to the Fest!’: Sense of place in the music of Gainesville’s Fest,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, San Antonio, Texas, April.
2022
“These are our friends, they’re not commodities: Investigating the sub and pop culture connection at Gainesville’s Fest,” Punk Scholars Network Conference and Postgraduate Symposium, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom, December.
“A Message to You, Rudy: Contextualizing Humor and Politics at a Four Seasons Total Landscaping Punk Show,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Virtual, April.
2021
“‘Waive your rights like you just don’t care’: Culture jamming conspiracy theories in Bad Religion’s ‘Do the Paranoid Style,’” Punk Scholars Network Conference and Symposium, Virtual, December.
“Bad Religion and the Burlesque: Framing Extremist Rhetoric in ‘The Kids are Alt-Right,’” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, virtual, June.
2020
“Epitaph Records and Insta-Activism in Contemporary Punk Rock Spaces,” Punk Scholars Network Conference and Symposium, Virtual, December.
2019
“Crowdfunding a Scene: GoFundMe, Norms of Reciprocity and Social (Media) Capital in Contemporary Punk Rock Communities,” Punk Scholars Network Conference and Symposium, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, December.
“‘…And Out Come the Comps’: Punk-O-Rama, CD Compilations, and their Prolonged Impact on Fans,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Washington, D.C., April.
Ellen Bernhard 