Taylor Swift will hold a symposium about her in Australia

The University of Melbourne will host a symposium in February 2024 to analyze the global influence of singer Taylor Swift, the first of its kind – called “Swiftposium” in English, “Swiftposio” in Spanish -, coinciding with the artist’s Australian tour.

The event will be held from February 11 to 13 at hybrid format -personal i on the line-, was organized by academics from seven universities in Australia and New Zealand, and the reception for registration of proposals for the discussion started this Wednesday.

His aim is to scrutinize the influence of the American megastar in the music industry as well as in culture, literature, the fan community or even the economy, and he hopes to attract researchers from Asia and the Pacific above all.

Among the proposals to be discussed at “Swiftposium”, organizers on the symposium’s website (www.swiftposium2024.com) cite the relationship of the singer of world hits such as “Shake it off” with feminism or LGTBQ movement.

“The Eras” tour.

The event will coincide with Swift’s February tour in Australia, where she will be headlining her tour “Era”which has won several of the most coveted awards in the world Video Music Awards (VMAs) from the music channel MTV: artist of the year, video of the year, song of the year and pop songas well as the direction, because she herself stood behind – and in front of – the camera.

The 33-year-old singer has become one of the highest-paid artists of all time, and her mega-tour “The Eras Tour” is considered cultural phenomenon and is on its way to becoming one of the most profitable in history, it is estimated that in North America The collection reaches 2.2 billion dollars, according to CNN.

Swift also became the first female artist to reach the milestone last August. 100 million listeners per month on the music platform Spotify.

Taylor Swift and X

X, before Twitteris not in the best moment and in order to increase the number, Elon Musk He made a special suggestion to Taylor Swift.

On this platform Swift gave thanks fans to decipher the riddles he created to discover release “Taylor’s Version”from his album in 1989, and in less than 24 hours it caused more than 600 thousand reactions, almost 180 thousand “retweets” and 13 thousand comments.

Because of this convening power, Musk commented on the post with an interesting suggestion: “I recommend posting some music or concert videos directly on platform“.