[Commlist] CfP '2nd Screening Spaces of Youth Symposium' (24 May 2024, Online)

*2nd Screening Spaces of Youth Symposium*
*Online, 24th May 2024*

Screening Spaces of Youth aims to bring together scholars interested in 
the representation of youth in audiovisual texts, including cinema, 
television and other media. This one-day online symposium places its 
focus on onscreen representations of spaces of youth. That is, of the 
spaces that young people inhabit and interact with in films, television, 
video-games and other forms of media. The symposium is open to all 
researchers, including postgraduate students, with a scholarly interest 
in the fields of youth studies, film studies and media studies, and it 
is free to attend.

In order to leave ample room for different approaches to the topic, we 
understand youth in its widest sense, as a period that encompasses 
childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. During these pre-adult life 
stages, young people inhabit spaces that are never truly theirs. The 
spaces that they interact with are often bound to the decisions of the 
adults around them, as well as to the rules of institutions controlled 
by adults. Yet, it cannot be said that young people lack agency. Through 
interaction with spaces, children, teenagers and young adults make them 
their own, adapting themselves to the spaces within their reach and 
repurposing those spaces to better suit their needs and desires. Through 
this process, then, young people reconfigure spaces and their 
boundaries, imbuing them with new meanings.

This year’s edition will have an emphasis on *the spaces of 
transnational youths*. While we are willing to accept papers on any 
aspect related to youth spaces in contemporary media (see list of topics 
below), we are particularly keen to encourage contributions which 
address questions of mobility, borders, diaspora, migration, 
displacement, or uprooting as they are experienced by youth across 
different media.

*Keynote speaker: Prof. Pamela Robertson Wojcik (University of Notre Dame)*

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  * Migrant youth
  * Youth, uprooting and sense of place
  * Diasporic spaces of youth
  * Youth and borders
  * Touristic spaces and youth
  * Gendered spaces
  * Youth, space and genre
  * Imagined spaces of youth
  * Space and coming-of-age
  * Meanings of home
  * Educational spaces
  * Youth and the global city
  * Urban and suburban spaces of youth
  * Youth and nature
  * Youth in rural spaces
  * Youth and transnational/national space
  * Postcolonial spaces of youth
  * Spaces of production/consumption
  * Youth and authorship
  * Youth, space and philosophies of time
  * Youth, space and World Cinema

*Submission instructions:*
Please send your paper proposal and bio to 
(screeningspacesofyouth2023 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(screeningspacesofyouth2023 /at/ gmail.com)> by March 15th. Abstracts 
should be no longer than 200 words and bios should not exceed 100 words. 
Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions about 
the submission process or about your proposal.

Please keep in mind that papers will be 10 minutes long to allow for 
ample discussion and foster interaction and collaboration among youth 
media scholars.

We are working towards the publication of an edited collection with 
contributions from the two editions of the Symposium. After the 
conference, we will contact contributors and make a selection from those 
interested in the publication. It is expected to be published by a major 
international publisher.

*Key dates:*
Paper proposal - March 15, 2024
Notification of acceptance - April 15, 2024
Symposium - May 24, 2024

*Conference organisers:*
Dr Maria Elena Alampi (University of Exeter)
Andrés Buesa (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Dr Luis Freijo (King’s College London)
Lauren Jones (University of Birmingham)
Dr Andrea Sofía Regueira Martín (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Ella Wright (University of Birmingham)

For information on the first edition: 
https://screeningspacesofyouth.weebly.com/



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