First-Ever Phish Conference Coming To OSU

KLCC | By Brian Bull

Published May 1, 2019 at 4:58 PM PDT

If you’ve ever yearned to discuss the scholarly aspects of the rock band, Phish, Oregon State University will accommodate.

A weekend-long academic conference will be held at OSU May 17^th through the 19^th.

Co-organizer Chryss Allaback says this is the first one dedicated to the band, featuring a variety of perspectives from many different fields.

Conference co-organizer (and suspected Phish fan), Chryss Allaback.

“Communications, philosophy, economics, religion, all these sorta different disciplines come together," Allaback tells KLCC. "All sort of use Phish as a lens to analyze our culture, our humanity, our subcultures.”

Official sessions range from The Neuroscience of the Jam, to The Role of Phish in Jewish Clergy Spiritual Development.

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Brian Bull is a part-time reporter for the KLCC News department, and first began working with the station in 2016. He's been a senior reporter with the Native American media organization Buffalo's Fire, and a journalism professor at the University of Oregon.

In his 30 years working as a public media journalist, Bull has worked at NPR, Twin Cities Public Television, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Wisconsin Public Radio, and ideastream in Cleveland. His reporting has netted dozens of accolades, including four national Edward R. Murrow Awards (25 regional), the Ohio Associated Press' Best Reporter Award, Best Radio Reporter from the Indigenous Journalists Association, and the PRNDI/NEFE Award for Excellence in Consumer Finance Reporting.

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