Youngsters: On the Cultures of Children and Youth

Inaugural Conference

The Association for Research in the Cultures of Young People (ARCYP)

20-22 October 2016

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC

Confirmed Keynotes

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Professor, Chair of Modern Media and Culture, Brown University)

Steven Bruhm (Robert and Ruth Lumsden Professor of English, Western University)

The Association for Research in the Cultures of Young People invites proposals for an inaugural conference in the field of children’s and youth cultural studies.  While scholars have been producing exciting work in the field for decades, that work has found itself positioned most often under the umbrella of other fields, including children’s literature, education studies, sociology, media studies, or cultural studies itself.  This conference seeks to establish itself as a biannual event to draw together scholars from these diverse fields to showcase and discuss the astonishing breadth of interdisciplinary scholarship in children’s and youth cultural studies.

We therefore welcome approaches to the study of childhood and children’s and youth cultures from an array of disciplines, fields, and historical periods, including work deploying a wide range of methodologies and theoretical approaches. Themes and topics may include:

The Racialization of Childhood

Media Darlings

The Spoils of Childhood

Child/Culture/Chronotope

Paradoxes of Development

Child’s Play

Children’s and Youth Spaces

Tender Travelers

The International Child

Theory’s Children

Youth Labours

Youth Subcultures and Scenes

Methodologies of Child and Youth

Cultural Studies

Psychoanalysis and/of Young People

Reproduction and/as Ideology

Archiving Young People

The Problems and Futures of Sex-Ed

Remediated Childhoods

Ecologies of Youth

Criminal Youth and Child Perpetrators

Animated Childhoods

Indigenous Youth Cultures

Out of the Mouths of Babes

Pedagogy and Its Discontents

Sonic Youth: Where Sound Meets Subculture

Embodied Youth

Fan Cultures

Remediating Young People

DYI Aesthetics

Minor Matters

The Limits and Possibilities of Children’s Rights

Channeling Youth Cultures: YouTube, ITube, WeTube

Cultures of Risk

Youth Cultural Production

The Emerging Narrative “I”/”Eye”

Baby Cultures

Children, Youth, and the DSM

The Sartorial Child

The Energies of Youth

Utopian/Dystopian Youth

Kinder Gardens: The Child in Ecocriticism

Queer and Trans Childhoods

Famous Babies

Submission Guidelines

Individual Submissions:

All individual proposals must be submitted by email to admin@arcyp.ca by 11:59pm PST on January 15, 2016.

Please use the following format for the subject line of your email: “Proposal Last Name First Name” (eg. Proposal Woodson Jacqueline). Please assist us by attaching a single document in .DOC, or .DOCX format only with the following information in exactly the order listed below:

Paper Title.

Name; institutional affiliation; position or title; degrees and granting institutions; email address; and phone number.

Abstract of the content and rationale of the paper: up to 300 words. (Presentation time for papers is 20 minutes maximum)

Brief (2-3 sentence) scholarly biography of presenter.

Indicate any audiovisual needs or special accommodations.

Panel Proposals:

Final panel proposals, including proposals for no more than three individual presenters (formatted as above) are due by no later than 11:59pm MST on January 15, 2016. Papers not accepted by panel organizers may be resubmitted to the general call for consideration provided they meet the above deadline. Please respond to all submissions in a prompt and courteous manner.

Please use the following format for the subject line of your email: “Panel Last Name First Name” (eg. Panel Rowling J.K.). Please assist us by attaching a single document in .DOC, or .DOCX format only with the following information in exactly the order listed below:

Panel Title.

Name; institutional affiliation; position or title; degrees and granting institutions; email address; and phone number

Copy of the panel proposal (up to 150 words).

Brief (2-3 sentence) scholarly biography of organizer.

Indicate any audiovisual needs or special accommodations.

Three proposed papers & related information formatted as above under “Individual Submissions”