April 2, 2008
9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. | St. John’s College Social Lounge
Organized by the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education and sponsored by the University of Cambridge, UK
The Youth Research Symposium showcased the role of interdisciplinary research in rethinking conceptualizations of ‘marginalized’ youth identity’, debates on youth subcultures versus post-subcultures, issues of gender, sexuality and social exclusion, and the history of policing and surveillance of young bodies over time and across national spaces. In particular, it sought to understand more fully how ideas about childhood and new youth identities have been generated and framed in different temporal, cultural and spatial contexts. The symposium also explored how the formation of new youth cultures may function, and to what degree, both as a response to, and a complex connection between, the macro and micro cultural forces of social and temporal change in the late 20th century and early 21st century.
Link to video presentations
- “Morality Squads, Curfews, and the Sports Solution: Policing Youth in Mid-Twentieth Century Canada” by Tamara Meyers
- “From the Margins to the Centre? Girlhood and the Contradictions of Femininity Across Three Generations” by Mary-Jane Kehily
- “Moral Panic in a New Age: Suspicion, Dread and Evolving Conceptions of Youth and the ‘Dangerous classes’ in Urban Space” by Joanne Dillabough
- “Learning to Protest: Youth Activist Struggles for Recognition and Symbolic Authority in a Neoliberal Moment” by Jackie Kennelly
- “The Nexus of Youth Studies and Gender Studies: Questions of Methodology” by Lisa Loutzenheiser
- “Interrogating Identities: Exploring Racism, Community and Belonging Among Mixed Race Youth in Canada” by Leanne Taylor
- “Navigating the Pedagogy of Failure: Medicine and Education Encounters: The Disabled Child in English Canada, 1900-1945” by Mona Gleason