[ecrea] CFP: Retrenching/Entrenching Youth Conference Call

*Conference Call:*

*Retrenching/Entrenching Youth: Mobility and Stasis in Youth Culture 
Representations on Screen*

University of Liverpool

4^th - 5^th June 2018

*Confirmed Keynotes:*

Professor Pamela Robertson Wojcik, University of Notre Dame

Dr. Timothy Shary, Southern New Hampshire University

Professor Karen Lury, University of Glasgow

In recent years the expansion of free trade, globalization and freedom 
of movement, has facilitated the emergence of immigrant youths who view 
themselves as transnational citizens (Maira 2004). Often travelling as 
tourists, migrant workers or students, these young people seek to live 
in different countries, experience new cultures, see new places, form 
new communities and/or find adventure. This freedom of movement has been 
reflected in young people’s films such as /Love, Rosie/; /The Dreamers;/ 
/An Education; What If; The Fault in Our Stars; Sisterhood of the 
Travelling Pants; The Inbetweeners Movie; Call Me By Your Name; 
Copenhagen; Bekas; Una Noche; Twilight: New Moon; Pitch Perfect 2; Pitch 
Perfect 3; Everything is Illuminated /and/Eurotrip;/ in television 
programmes such as /Gossip Girl /(season 4); /Gilmore Girls /(season 
5);/One Tree Hill/ (season 9); /Degrassi: The Next Generation/ (Season 
8) and /Skins /(season 2); as well as in Netflix series like /Gilmore 
Girls/ (“A Year in the Life”).

The flow of media, goods and people across national borders and the 
formation of online communities have seen youth culture embedded within 
both national and global trends and happenings. Yet, As Stephen Castles, 
Hein de Haas, and Mark Miller note, “the growth of transnational society 
has given rise to novel challenges” (17). The strain of these challenges 
has been seen in both the Brexit and Trump campaigns and surprised 
victories, with immigration and tighter border control serving as a 
central issue in both campaigns. While in the British referendum and the 
American presidential election young people more commonly voted to 
remain in the European Union and against Trump and his values, this 
generation now faces tightening borders and heightened nationalism. In 
this conference, we aim to explore how contemporary youth culture has 
been shaped by these and other earlier developments such as, the global 
financial crisis, the increased visibility of terrorism in the West, and 
the intersecting ways in which industrial, economic, social, cultural 
and political factors have affected the representation of young people’s 
stasis and mobility on screen. Papers, panels and workshops are invited 
on but not limited to:

~ Youth Culture and (Trans)National Identity

~ Beyond Borders: Youth Culture and Online Communities

~ Travel in Contemporary Youth Film and Television

~ Youth Culture and the Media

~ Youth Literature and Travel

~ Group Commitment and Boundaries among Young People

~ The Changing Landscape of Borders and Youth Culture

~ Youth Culture and Brexit

~ Youth Culture and Trump

~ Youth Culture in the European Union

Please send queries and abstracts of 250-350 words, along with a brief 
bio of no more than 100 words, to (katherine.whitehurst /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(katherine.whitehurst /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>by *18^th March 2018*. The 
conference chairs are Dr. Yannis Tzioumakis & Dr. Katherine Whitehurst 
at the University of Liverpool. Conference details can be obtained at: 
https://commsmedialiverpool.wordpress.com

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