[ecrea] CFP: Teenage Kicks - Global teenage cultures, representations and practices

CALL FOR PAPERS

Kingston University, London

Conference: Teenage Kicks: Global teenage cultures, representations and 
practices

Event date: Saturday 9 September - Sunday 10 September 2017
Deadline for Proposals: 1st March 2017

Keynote Speaker: Dr Kate E. Taylor-Jones, School of East Asian Studies, 
Sheffield University


The popular contemporary representation of a teenager is someone who 
stays in their bedroom with their tablet and phone, only venturing out 
for sustenance.  Media panics around violence and videogames, online 
pornography and extreme television and film also construct the teenager 
as a passive victim of the mass media. The purpose of this two day 
conference is to interrogate popular representations, cultures and 
sub-cultures, and practices of teenagers on a global level.
This interdisciplinary conference seeks 20 minute papers and panel 
proposals which interrogate popular conceptions and misconceptions of 
the teenager. Papers and panels will approach the teenager from a global 
perspective are particularly welcome.

Themes include:

•	Bedroom Cultures

•	Fan practices and cultures

•	Blogs/Vlogs and other internet practices

•	Selfie culture

•	Fashion and beauty

•	Music and sub-cultural identities

•	Constructions of the 'girl' or constructions of the 'boy' in popular 
culture

•	Teenage cinema
•	Online dating and sexting

•	K-Pop/J-Pop and hybridity

•	Teenagers and the ideology of anti-social behaviour

•	Religion and the teenager

•	Histories of the teenager

•	Young Adult literature

•	Young Adult television and film

•	The law and the teenager

Please email abstracts (250-300) words to Colette Balmain 
((c.balmain /at/ kingston.ac.uk)) or Lucy Williams ((l.williams /at/ kingston.ac.uk)) 
by no later than March 1st 2017 and don't forget to include your name, 
email address and institutional affiliation if applicable. We look 
forward to hearing from you.

For further information about this event contact: Dr Colette Balmain at: 
(c.balmain /at/ kingston.ac.uk).
Updated details will appear on the conference website:
http://www.kingston.ac.uk/events/item/2444/09-sep-2017-teenage-kicks-global-teenage-cultures-representations-and-practices/

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