9:00am-12:00pm Registration

10:00am-11:30am “Can We Live While We’re Young?!” A Guided Listening Session through Chalk Dust Torture

Jacob A. Cohen, Steven Reale, and Julie Viscardi-Smalley

12:00pm-12:30pm Welcome & Opening Remarks

Stephanie Jenkins

Nicole von Germeten

12:30pm-1:15pm Keynote Address

Jnan Blau, “We Are Aphicionados, We Are Vernacular Theorists!: A Critical Reconsideration and Anti-Hegemonic Recasting of Phish, Phandom and Fan Praxis”

1:30pm-3:00pm Panel Session

Shiny Music that Descends from Overhead: The Significance of Improvisation

Moderator: Dana Reason

Steven Reale, “Breathing Deep in a Steam Dream: Structural Fog and the Persistence of Groove in a Split Open and Melt Jam”

Daniel Knorr, “Motive Constructs in the Music of Phish: Redefining What it Means to ‘Jam’”

David Rosen, “The Neuroscience of the Jam: A Research Paradigm to Study Brain Interactivity Underlying Improvisation in Phish”

Julie Viscardi-Smalley, “Up the Mountain: The Compositional Use of the Arpeggiated Augmented Triad in Anastasio’s ‘Colonel Forbin’s Ascent’ as Performed by Phish”

3:15pm-4:45pm Panel Session

Perception is Spoonfed: Phish, Art, and Experience

Moderator: Sharyn Clough

Michael Sell, “Photo Gods and Rock ‘n’ Roll Monsters: Portraits of Phish Fans”

Kristine Warrenburg Rome, “Unpredictable Phamiliarity: Atopy Performance Art and the Fourth Persona”

Joseph Dresch, “Kasvot from the Couch: Medium, Perception, and Experience: 10.31.18”

Jason Maas, “Phish: The Good Breast: An Examination of the Phish phenomenon and the Extensive Dedication of their Fans with an Object Relations and Attachment Theory Approach”

5:00pm-6:30pm Panel Session

We’re All in this Together: Race and Racism in the Phish Community

Moderator: Jane Waite

Kate Aly-Brady, Daniel J. Budiansky, Adam Lioz, and Rupa Mitra,“White Phragility: Race-Talk and Backlash in the Phish Scene”

Joong Won Kim, Nathaniel G. Chapman, & David L. Brunsma, “‘Is This Your First Show?’: White Racism and Subcultural Capital in the Phish Community”

Paul Livingston and Laura J. Livingston, “This is Your Song Too: Race and Exclusivity in the Phish Community”

Jim Vernon, “’Control for Smilers Can’t be Bought’: Phish’s White Rebellion Against White Rebellion”

6:30pm Below the Moss Forgotten: Phish in the Pacific Northwest

Opening Reception (catered)

Curator: Alexander Grosby

Exhibitor: Pete Mason