Pop Conference 2016

Carl Wilson is a freelance writer, the music critic for Slate, and the author of Let’s Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste. In the winter of 2016, he will be the visiting Southam Lecturer in the Creative Writing program at the University of Victoria. He is a frequent... Read More →

Anthony Easton is a critic, originally from Edmonton and now living in Hamilton, Ontario. They have written about music for the Atlantic Online, Buzzfeed, Stylus, Freaky Trigger, Red State Reader, Singles Jukebox, Pitchfork, Spin, and the National Post. They have a ThM from University... Read More →

Daniel Fisher is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. He is co-editor of Radio Fields: Anthropology and Wireless Sound in the 21st Century (NYU Press, 2012), and author of The Voice and its Doubles (Duke University, forthcoming April 2016). He has contributed to journals... Read More →

Clare O’Connor is a doctoral student in Communication at the University of Southern California. She studies the latent liberatory content of popular music and its implications for contemporary social movements. Her publications include Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary... Read More →