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Youth, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA
Friday, February 8 to Sunday, February 10, 2002
Friday, February 8, 2002
7-9pm Closing Reception for Pink Onions: Reflections on
the Nostalgic Tenderness and Raw Pungency of Youth, a national juried
art exhibition at the Wankelman Gallery, Fine Arts Building, Bowling
Green State University. Free to all.
9-11pm The Late Show: Documenting the Lives of Young Women
Closer, directed by Tina Gharavi (2000, 24 minutes)
Cusp, directed by Ruth Sergel (2000, 25 minutes)
Hide and Seek, directed by Su Friedrich (1996, 65 min)
Bowen-Thompson Union Theater. Free to all.
Note: All Panels take place in 101-104 Olscamp Hall.
Exact room locations to be provided in printed program.
The conference is open to everyone. There are no
registration fees for BGSU students, staff, or faculty.
However, we ask that BGSU folks register, so we can
document attendance for funding purposes. Other visitors
are required to pay a $45 registration fee.
Saturday, February 9, 2002
Session 1: Three Concurrent Panels, 9-10:30 am
A. Global Rap: The Politics of Hip Hop Culture
Bryan Shelly and Susan McWilliams, Rebels Without a Pause: The
Political Goals and Gripes of Hip-Hop's "Next Movement"
Robert P. Stephens, "The Last Warning": Afro-German Hip Hop and the
Reemergence of 'Blackness' in post-Unification Germany
Adam Knobler, (W)rapping Up a Phat World: Hip-Hop Cultures & Rap Music
in non-American Contexts
Moderator: Halifu Osumare
B. Young Maculinities: Long Hairs, Boy Scouts,
and IONY Modernists
Patrick Vrooman, Verifying Youth Masculinities in Boys' Life Magazine,
1950 to 2000
Gayle V. Fischer, Revolutions in Dress Codes
and Hair Styles: High School Students, 1964-1969
Moderator: Stewart Varner
C. Media Literacy and Socialization: Strategies,
Ethics, and Pedagogy
Vickie Shields, Media Education, Media Activism and Self-Acceptance
as Strategies for Change in Young Girls' Everyday Relationship with
Advertising
Anna Gough-Yates, 'What It Feels Like for a Girl': Young Women's Magazines
and Media Ethics in late-twentieth century Britain
Doreen Piano, Congregating Women: Reading 3rd Wave Technological Practices
in Subcultural Production
Moderator: Lonni Nash
Session 2: Plenary, 10:45-12:15
Featured speaker: Carol Siegel, Washington State University.
"Perils for the Pure: Abstinence Rhetoric and
Goth Youth Cultures." 101 Olscamp.
Lunch Break, 12:15-1:45
Session 3: Four Concurrent Panels, 1:45-3:15pm
A. Constructing Categories: Tweens, Nerds, and Slackers
Sarah Hildebrandt, "Tweens"
Nathan S. Epley, Hierarchies of Taste and Adolescent Nerd Culture
Gulbin Kiranoglu, Generation X and Media
Moderator: Jack Santino
B. British Subcultural Theory Revisited: Issues of Youth, Style
and Subculture
Bill Osgerby, Towards a Pre-History of 'Post-Subcultural' Style: A Case-
Study of British Youth Culture During the 1950s.
David Muggleton, Subcultural Authenticity: Inside and Outsider Perspectives
Rehan Hyder, Asia Rising : Ethnicity and Subculture in Contemporary
Britain
Moderator: Joe Austin
C. Countercultural Institutions: The Sixties and After
Michael Mario Albrecht, The Selective Memory of the Sixties
Michael J. Kramer, Rock Criticism, 1960s Youth Culture, and the Pop
"Public Sphere"
Mary Rizzo, The Countercultural Peep Show: Youth Culture, Middle Class
Desire and the Musical Hair
Moderator: Brad Klypchak
D. TACA: A Demonstration/Workshop on Theatre and Youth Activism
Session 4: Three Concurrent Panels, 3:30-5pm
A. Roundtable on Eroin Guncesi (Heroin Diary), Youth,
and Modernization in Contemporary Turkey
Gulbin Kiranoglu, Tuna Mutlu, Nur Ozkan Bolukbasi, Berkem Gurenci, Purnur
Ucar
Moderator: Jack Santino
B. Generation and Political Socialization: Youth and the Liberal
State in the 20th Century
James Block, Generational Conflict and Social Change: The Structural
Role of Youth in Liberal Political Transformation
Robert Alexander, Political Socialization-Past and Present; the Formation
of Citizens or Subjects?
Moderator: Dale Dittmer
C. Defining the Teen in the Post-1945 Period
Grace Lees-Maffei, Conduct and Consumption: Managing the Youthquake
in Advice Literature 1945 - 1970
Ilana Nash, Knocked Up and Knocked Down: The Teenage Girl in Popular
Culture
Moderator: Marilyn Yaquinto
Dinner Break, 5-7pm
Keynote Address, 7:30 pm Janice Radway,
Duke University. "Girls, Zines, and the Miscellaneous Production
of Subjectivity in an Age of Unceasing Circulation."
Reception 6-7pm, Room 101 Olscamp.
Sunday, February 10
Session 5: Three Concurrent Panels, 9-10:30
A. Edifying with Entertainment
Dale Dittmer, "Barbarians at the Gates": The Interrogation of Youth
Culture on Law and Order
Tanya Dumova, Looking for Better Television for Our Youth: Children,
Parents, Educators, and a Local TV Station Working Together
Moderator: David Coon
B. The Perils and Pleasures of Girl Power
Ellen Riordan, In the Service of Patriarchal Capitalism: Constructing
Powerful Girls through Popular Culture
Natalie Coulter, Just one more paper on the Spice Girls: Offering new
frames of critique
Sarah Karnasiewicz, Buying Power: Consumerism, Gender, and the Pop-
Culture Phenomenon of the Teenage Witch
Moderator: Jennifer Musial
C. Dedicated Youth: Confronting the Limitations of the Domestic
Sphere
Kristen Schilt, Riot Grrl, Youth Subculture, and Political Commitment
Susan K. Freeman, "Climbing the Dating Ladder": High School Lessons
on Heterosexuality in the U.S., 1940-1960
Moderator: Lonni Nash
Session 6: Four Concurrent Panels, 10:45-12:15
A. Productive Consumption: Fans and Groupies as Agents
Christine Bichler, Star Trek the Movement: Early Star Trek Fanzines,
Gender, and the Rhetoric of the Counter-Culture
Kathryn Kerr Fenn, Love and Theft: A Labor History of Groupies in the
1960s
Kristen Kidder, "The Girl at the Rock Show:" The Placing of Groupies
in Contemporary Music Culture
Moderator: Halifu Osumar
B. The Criminalization of Youth
Maureen P. Hogan, The Role of Adult Amnesia and Anxiety in Popular Conceptions
of Youth
Steve Macek, The Rise and Fall of the "Superpredator": The News Media
and the Myth of the Coming Youth Crime Wave
Jennifer Tilton, "Ain't No Power Like the Power of the Youth": Youth
Activism against the Criminalization of a Generation
in California
Moderator: Joe Austin
C. Situating Subcultures: Record Shops, Heavy Metal, and War
Brad Klypchak, Death to False Metal? Metal Horror Films and Their Construction
of the Metal Subculture
Lee Ann Fullington, Stereo/types: Music scenes and the independent record
shop
Nur Ozkan, Lyrical Responses of American Hippie Youth to the Vietnam
War
Moderator: Mike DuBose
D. From Sesame Street to Pokemon: Race,
Sex, and Capitalism
Devorah Heitner, "Raced" and "Classed"
Muppets: Sesame Street
Davin Heckman, "Gotta Catch'em All":
The War Machine, The State, and
Pokemon Trainers
Matthew Wolf-Meyer, The Obscenely
Cute and the Blatantly Sexual: Pokemon
as a Pre-Sexual Therapeutic Text
Moderator: Daniel Boudreau
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