Call for Papers
Youth Cultures in Post-War France
Conference to be held at Heriot Watt University Edinburgh
Friday 9 September 2005
We are delighted to invite proposals (300 words) for papers for the first
in a series of one-day conferences on Youth Cultures in Post-War France,
intended to provide a new forum for established researchers and
postgraduate students working in this significant yet relatively
underdeveloped field. The initial conference will be broad in scope,
encompassing a variety of disciplines and specializations. Suggested areas
of enquiry include:
Representations of youth in the mass media, popular music, cinema,
literary texts, bande dessinée
Mainstream and Alternative Cultures; Transgression; Moral Panics;
Delinquency; Blousons noirs, Loubards, and other marginal subcultures;
Political and social movements
Youth and other related identities - ethnicity, class, gender,
sexuality, region, language, religion, generation, memory, community
Production and Marketing Strategies; Technological Developments
Consumption; Spectatorship; Taste cultures; Corporeal Practices; Dance
Cultures; Discophilia; Fashion and Clothing; Fandom, Icons and Teen Idols
Regulatory Practices; Cultural and Educational Policies
The deadline for reception of abstracts is Friday 29 April 2005.
It is expected that papers will last a maximum of 20 minutes to allow
ample time for discussion. Please e-mail abstracts or requests for further
information to:
W.Michallat@shef.ac.uk or C.G.Tinker@hw.ac.uk
Dr Wendy Michallat
French Department
University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield S10 2TN
Tel: 0114 22 22 879
or
Dr Chris Tinker
Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies
Heriot-Watt University
Riccarton
Edinburgh EH14 4AS
Tel: 0131 451 4101