[Commlist] CfP 'Screening Spaces of Youth'

*Screening Spaces of Youth Symposium*
*Online (Zoom), 2 June 2023*


"Screening Spaces of Youth" aims to bring together scholars interested 
in the representation of youth in audiovisual texts media, including 
cinema, television and other media. More specifically, 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 children and teenagers interact with are often bound to the 
decisions of the adults around them, as well as to the rules of 
institutions controlled by adults. More often than not, children and 
teenagers are unable to choose their place of residence, where they 
spend most of their days, and what spaces are available to them. While 
young adults may have more of a say in the matter, the precarity of the 
coming-of-age process renders them subject to the whims of the 
employment and housing markets. With security and stability far from 
guaranteed, they remain in a post-adolescent limbo, the markers—and 
spaces of—adulthood out of their reach. 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.

*Keynote speakers:* Prof. Romana Andò (Sapienza University of Rome), 
Prof. Celestino Deleyto (Universidad de Zaragoza), Prof. Danielle 
Hipkins (University of Exeter), Dr Catherine Lester (University of 
Birmingham), Prof. Rob Stone (University of Birmingham).

*Topics* may include, but are not limited to:

  * Youth, space and genre
  * Gendered spaces
  * Space and coming-of-age
  * Youth, uprooting and sense of place
  * Migrant youth
  * Youth and transnational/national space
  * Youth, space and World Cinema
  * Youth, space and philosophies of time
  * Youth and the city
  * Youth and nature
  * Youth in rural spaces
  * Youth in educational spaces
  * Postcolonial spaces of youth
  * Youth and authorship
  * Imagined spaces of youth
  * Spaces of production/consumption

*Submission info:
*Please send your paper proposal and bio to 
(screeningspacesofyouth2023 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(screeningspacesofyouth2023 /at/ gmail.com)> by March 31st. 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.

*Key dates:
*Paper proposal - March 31, 2023
Notification of acceptance - April 28, 2023
Symposium - June 2, 2023

*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)



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