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Friday 09/06/2024 by phishnet

PHISH STUDIES 101 IS COMING!

Thanks to Jnan Blau (@thephunkydrb) for this exciting news!]

This, dear reader, is obviously a blog post on our beloved Dot Net. But it is also more than that. This here is also a heads-up, as well as a bit of an enjoinder. Maybe this is also a touch of a plea. It is certainly hoping to function as a woo-ing (not during-a-jam wooing, no no!) — you know, as in to woo (v.) someone. Most assuredly, this is an enthusiastic and genuine invitation to you, my fellow phans.

Indeed, I come bearing what is exciting news about something that maybe should be on your radar and that, it is hoped, will be of interest to many of you.

This writing comes to you on behalf of Phish Studies. Some of you have perhaps heard of us, and of the events we have been putting on the last several years. The first one was on the campgrounds of The Gorge in 2018; the last one happened this past spring. In a nutshell, gatherings of folks who are scholars/academics who turn their keen eyes and ears — and even keener minds and hearts — to unpacking and analyzing and theorizing and deeply appreciating this phenomenon we know as Phish and phandom. Maybe you caught wind of our most recent event, the second official, interdisciplinary Phish Studies Conference, held in May of this year at Oregon State University?

Before I get to the concrete news and invite, allow me to set the stage just a bit more...

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