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On Wednesday there was a mix of business and pleasure for me. \u00a0In the morning I attend a conference at the University of Malmo entitled\u00a0A Transnational Vision for Europe? Performances, Politics and Places of the Eurovision Song Contest<\/em>. It has brought together a range of academic and interested parties from around the world, reflecting the expanding nature and diversity of research being undertaken in this area. \u00a0If you’d like to get a flavour of what’s on the programme, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lucky for me, I was first to deliver my paper – and I was pleased with how it went and how it was received. A range of good questions followed, and it was good to get positive feedback from friends and delegates at the conference. I was on the same panel as my good friend Dr Paul Jordan. We first met at a conference in Volos, Greece back in 2007 – the first dedicated conference on the ESC. \u00a0He is building a great profile for researching the Eurovision Song Contest. \u00a0Indeed, I know that some of you will be familiar with his work as “Dr Eurovision”. He will been contributing to both semi-final broadcasts for BBC this week. If you would like to know more about Paul’s work, click here<\/a>. Some of you might even has seen him on the BBC3 programme\u00a0How To Win Eurovision\u00a0<\/em>last weekend. Paul contributed very well, but the programme was terrible! It was a pity that BBC3 could’t have commissioned a programme which didn’t have to take the ‘proverbial’ out of the Contest. \u00a0Then again, it was broadcast on Saturday night *and* on BBC3, so their target audience probably wasn’t looking for anything analytical!<\/p>\n

I missed the afternoon panels of the conference as I wanted to see the rehearsals of the host Country, Sweden, and our very own Bonnie Tyler. More of that later today…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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