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We are pleased to announce the fourth KISMIF International Conference ‘Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! Gender, differences, identities and DIY cultures’ (KISMIF Conference 2018) which will take place in Porto, Portugal, between 3 July and 7 July 2018.The submission of abstracts for this conference is open to academic researchers working in all areas of sociology, anthropology, history, cultural economics, geography, urban planning, media and cultural studies and cognate disciplines, such as design, illustration, popular music, cinema, visual and performing arts.This initiative follows the great success of the three past editions of the KISMIF Conference (held in 2014, 2015 and 2016) and brings together an international community of researchers focusing on underground music scenes and do-it-yourself culture.The KISMIF Conference offers a unique forum where participants can discuss and share information about underground cultures and DIY practices. KISMIF focuses on cultural practices that are often pitched against more mainstream, mass-produced and commodified forms of cultural production. Aligned with this is an anti-hegemonic ideology focused around aesthetic and lifestyle politics. KISMIF is the first and so far, only conference to examine the theory and practice of underground DIY cultures as an increasingly significant form of cultural practice in a global context. The conference has a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming contributions from the global community of scholars and activists working on all aspects of underground scenes and DIY cultures, and based on various methodologies — quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods analysis. The goal is to discuss not only music but also other artistic fields such as film and video, graffiti and street art, theatre and the performing arts, literature and poetry, radio, programming and editing, graphic design, illustration, cartoon and comic fiction.Seeking to respond to the desire reiterated by researchers, artists and activists present at previous KISMIF conferences, the 4th edition of KISMIF will focus on ‘Gender, differences, identities and DIY cultures’, directing its attention on gender issues relating to underground scenes and DIY cultures, and their manifestation at local, translocal and virtual levels. Expressions of gender in local, translocal and virtual spaces constitute important variables to understand contemporary cultures, their sounds, their practices (artistic, cultural, economic and social), their actors and their contexts. From a postcolonial and glocalized perspective, it is important to consider the changes in artistic and musical practices with an underground nature to draw symbolic boundaries between their operating modalities and those of advanced capitalism.In 2018, the scientific programme of KISMIF will once again be accompanied by a diverse social and cultural programme, characterised by a series of artistic events, with special focus on underground music and other artistic expressions. The aim is to provide a unique experience in terms of the transglobal DIY cultures.The conference will be preceded by a summer school entitled ‘What difference do DIY cultures make?’ on 3 July 2018 in Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto. The summer school will offer an opportunity for all interested persons, including those participating in the conference, to attend workshops led by specialists in these fields. More information about the Summer School will be progressively disseminated in the KISMIF Conference website.The conference convenors welcome abstracts pertaining to the following topics, taking into account the KISMIF 2018 themes – gender, differences, identities and its relations with DIY cultures: The role/importance of gendered spaces/places/territories in underground music scenes and DIY cultures at the local, translocal and virtual level. Gender, migrations, diasporas, refugees and artistic and musical movements. Cities, space and contemporary countercultural resistance, social and artistic practices. Music scenes, new actors, new equalities: gender, queer, LGBT. New artistic and musical productions and intermediations in favor of spatial justice and gender equality. The role of gender in local, translocal and virtual mechanisms of production, intermediation and musical consumption. Developments in social theory around the gendered art worlds, musical fields, artistic fields, local/translocal/virtual music scenes. Gender, memory, historicity, genealogy and diachrony of music/artistic scenes. Subcultures, post-subcultures, tribes, neo-tribes and gender. Heritage, retromania and local/translocal/virtual DIY archives. Theoretical and methodological challenges/dilemmas in the research of artistic differences. Urban micro-economies, DIY careers and gender: alternative forms of musical, artistic and cultural entrepreneurship. Pedagogies and interventions based on artistic/musical DIY and social justice. Music scenes and (sub)cultures, ageing, ethnicity and development. City and aesthetics: musical and artistic styles and aesthetic transformations. Urban spaces and new dynamics of social inclusion through music and underground artistic practices and DIY. Spaces, places and the festivalization of culture, music, underground and DIY practices. Ethnicities, creative, musical and artistic roots and hybridity. Post-colonialism, transglobal artistic and musical scenes and citizenship.General InstructionsThe KISMIF Conference 2018 welcomes the submission of proposals for papers’ presentations, panels’ discussion, creative workshops and creative performances.All proposals must be written in English and submitted no later than 10 February 2018, in the KISMIF Conference website: www.kismifconference.com.Each author cannot submit more than one proposal as first author.Instructions for paper proposal submissions:• Paper proposal abstracts should be approximately 250 words in length.• The information requested with abstract submissions includes:(1) the name(s) of the author(s), the area of expertise (sociology, economy, etc.), the institutional affiliation (department, university, country), and email(s);(2) title of the proposed presentation;(3) abstract with approximately 250 words;(4) between 3-5 keywords.Instructions for participation in Summer School:• All the interested persons must complete and submit a form available in the KISMIF Conference website: www.kismifconference.com.• The forms must be submitted no later than 10 February 2018.• The information requested includes:(1) the name of the participant;(2) the area of expertise (sociology, economy, etc.);(3) the institutional affiliation (department, university, country);(4) email;(5) biographical note with approximately 150 words.Important datesConference Proposals submission: from 01 October 2017 to 10 February 2018 Opening of Registration: 31 October 2017 Notification of proposals approval: 28 February 2018 Deadline for early registration: 31 March 2018 Deadline for registration of conference presenters: 15 April 2018 Deadline for registration of all other delegates: 07 July 2018Summer School Submission of applications: from 01 October 2017 to 10 February 2018 Notification of applications approval: 28 February 2018 Deadline for early registration: 31 March 2018 Deadline for late registration: 15 April 2018&#160;KISMIF Conference 2018_ CALL (en)KISMIF Summer School 2018_ CALL (en)