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Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA February 8, 9, and 10, 2002 How have young people consumed, resisted, co-opted, and negotiated popular culture in the service of their own needs and goals? How does popular culture serve institutional, political, and cultural ideologies in its construction of youth? How has the social category of "youth" been inhabited and transformed by young people themselves? We are locating these questions at the intersections of youth, popular culture, and everyday life in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. This interdisciplinary, international conference will explore the multiple ways in which popular culture and everyday practices have influenced youth, children, and the teenager as social categories, the ways in which youth people have responded to these influences, and how the complex interactions between them have varied over time, location, and social identity. Keynote Address: Janice Radway (Duke University): "Girls, Zines, and the Miscellaneous Production of Subjectivity in an Age of Unceasing Circulation." (reception and presentation on Saturday evening, February 9) Featured Speaker: Carol Siegel (Washington State University), "Perils for the Pure: Abstinence Rhetoric and Goth Youth Cultures" (presentation will be a conference plenary session, mid-day, Saturday, February 9) National Juried Art Exhibition: Pink Onions: Reflections on the Nostalgic Tenderness and Raw Pungency of Youth (Closing Reception, evening, February 8) |