Punk rock is a musical style, a way of life and a set of aesthetic and emotional styles. Emerging in Western English-speaking cities during the late 1970s, it has resonated across time and space, providing a cosmopolitan set of contested cultural references, aesthetics, memories and identities particularized in innumerable local settings.
This seminar explores the multifarious heritage of punk culture from a range of geographical, historical and disciplinary positions: as aesthetics and cultural history; in its Anglophone origins and several of its local adaptions.

• No Future: Punk in Britain, 1976-84: Matt Worley, Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading
• Punk in West and East Berlin: No Future vs. too much future: Marie Arleth Skov, postdoc, ARoS and Aarhus University
• Czech and Slovak Punk: Ondřej Daniel, Assistant Professor of History, Charles University, Prague
• China Punk: Andreas Steen, Professor of Chinese Studies, Aarhus University
• Aarhus Punk: Bertel Nygaard, Professor of History, Aarhus University

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