The University of Thessaly, in Volos Greece, is organizing a pan European conference on the Eurovision Song Contest this coming weekend. The conference is expected to attract a large number of fans from all over the country and the University is going to provide international fans with the opportunity to watch the conference online.
The conference, Singing Europe: Spectacle and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest, is organized by the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly (Volos, Greece) in association with the The Society of Ethnomusicology (Special Interest Group for European Music), under the auspices of the Benaki Museum (Athens, Greece). It will take place in Volos, Greece, from 29 February to 2 March 2008.
A multitude of speakers from all over Europe and the USA will discuss the various aspects of the Eurovision Song Contest (you can read more here). The conference will be streamed live through the University's website so that fans from around the country and the world have the opportunity to follow the presentations.
More details on the conference as well as the full schedule can be found here
The conference will be streamed live here.
