Conference Blackbox Youth

[Heike Winkel]

*Blackbox Youth*  
*New Perspectives on East-European Youth Cultures*

*02.11.2012 -- 04.11.2012*

*Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 
Berlin Room KL 32/202 (Rostlaube)*

*Organizers**: *

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    Institute for East-European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

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    Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature, Freie Universität
    Berlin

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    Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur
    Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO), Leipzig


*Conception:*

  *

    *Matthias Schwartz, Heike Winkel*


*Homepage:*

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    *http://www.oei.fu-berlin.de/kultur/jugend.html*

The conference is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), 
Institute for East-European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, 
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), 
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas 
in Leipzig (GWZO) and Heinrich Böll Stiftung.


The youth are in great demand, for they symbolize the future of society, 
and that future is constantly up for debate. The political potential of 
young people became apparent once again during the revolutions in the 
Arab world and the latest protests in Russia, all of which were 
significantly shaped by young activists. As a result, we are witnessing 
a repeat of the scenario familiar from the uprisings that occurred 
throughout Eastern Europe during the last decade. The so called "colour 
revolutions" led to a debate about the social-political role of young 
people. The trajectory of the discussion reveals both a social need to 
project collective wishes onto youth activism and societies' obvious 
helplessness when it comes to critically reflecting on the 
disappointment stemming from the exaggerated expectations. The 
conference aims to initiate an unbiased discussion of quintessential 
developments, results and discourses that are central to the youth 
cultures in Eastern European countries.


*Conference Program
*


*/Friday, November 2nd /*

9:30-10:00Opening: Matthias Schwartz, Heike Winkel (Berlin)

*Section 1:The Redefinition of the Political *

10:00-11:00Keynote Speaker: Ken Roberts (Liverpool): /Youth Cultures and 
the Formation of a New Political Generation in Eastern Europe/

11:00-11.30Coffee break

11.30-13.30Félix Krawatzek (Oxford): /Youth Mobilisation in its Relation 
to Politics. Comparing Perestroika and the Putin / Medvedev Era /

Anna Zhelnina (St. Petersburg): /"Young Politics"? The Emergence of the 
Social Network of Young Politicians in St. Petersburg, Russia/

Tom Junes (Vienna): /No More Politics? 1989 and the End of the 
'Classical' Student Movement in Poland/

13.30-15:00Lunch break

*Section 2: The Revison of the Social I: New Types of Belonging*

15:00-17:00Herwig Reiter, Christine Steiner (Berlin): /Two Different 
Countries, two Different Pathways to Capitalism -- one New Youth?/

Maciej Bernasiewicz (Katowice): /Worldview Discourses in Polish 
Magazines for Young People and Hip-Hop Music/

Vlad Strukov (Leeds): /'Optimistic' Youth: Media Environment, Politics 
of Space and Construction of Identity/

17.00-17.30Coffee break

*The Revison of the Social II: New Media Techniques*

17.30-19.00Patryk Wasiak (Wassenaar): /'Video-Fans' and Computer 
Bosses'. Consumer Electronics ad Youth Identities in the Late 
State-socialist Poland///

Sabina-Adina Luca,Bogdan Gheorghita and Dragos Dragoman (Sibiu): /Young 
People in Romania. How 'New Media' Shape Social Communication and 
Political Activism/

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*/Saturday, November 3rd/*

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*Section 3: Rethinking Youth I: Beyond Generation*

10.00-11:00Keynote Speaker: Hilary Pilkington (Manchester): /Punk -- but 
not as we know it: Rethinking Youth Culture from a Post-socialist 
Perspective/

11.00-12:30Stefan B. Kirmse (Berlin): /How far does 'Eastern Europe' go? 
Experiences of Youth in Central Asia/

Alfrun Kliems (Leipzig/Berlin):/Old young men. Popculture and its Aging 
Protagonists/

12:30-14:00Lunch break

***Rethinking Youth II: Post-Socialist Subjectivities*

14:00-16:00Gleb Tsipursky (Newark, Ohio): /Youth Communal Policing: 
Public Discourse and Volunteer Militias in Post-Soviet Russia/

José Alaniz (Seattle): /Colorful Pictures: 'Respekt' Comics and Russian 
Youth/

Matthias Schwartz (Berlin): /Everything Feels Bad: Figurations of the 
Self in Young Post-Socialist Literature/

16.00-16.30Coffee break

*Section 4: The Transformation of the Imaginary I: Constructing Identity 
Patterns*

16:30-18:30Yaryna Borenko (Lviv/): Concepts of Patriotism within 
Education and Youth Policies in Ukraine/

Jovana Papovic', Astrea Pejovic' (Belgrade): /Nationalist Iconography of 
the Nineties in Contemporary Youth Discourse in Serbia/

Robert Pruszczyn'ski (Warschau): /Masculinity without a Rebel, a Rebel 
without a Masculinity. Polish Cinemy, Youths and National Stereotypes 
(Z.amojda, Z.u?awski)/

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*/Sunday, November 4th/**//*

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*Section 4: The Transformation of the Imaginary II: Appropriating and 
Subverting Identity Patterns*

10:00-11:20 Catriona Kelly (Oxford): /The End of Childhood and/or the 
Discovery of the Tineidzher?////Reflections on Age Boundaries and 
Boundaries in Chronology/

Matthias Meindl (Zürich): /The Fight of/for the Youth: Russian Youth 
Movements and their Representation in Contemporary Russian Literature/

11:20-11:40Coffee break

11:40-13:00Anna Oravcová (Prague): /Czech Hip-Hop Undergroud/

Heike Winkel (Berlin): /Loners and Gangs. Communality in Contemporary 
Eastern European Literature/

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*/13:00-14:00/**Concluding discussion*

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For further information and to register please contact the organizers 
per mail.

_Heike Winkel, Dr. des. 
<http://www.oei.fu-berlin.de/kultur/mitarbeiter/wissenschaftliche_mitarbeiterbeiter/winkel/index.html>_

Freie Universität Berlin

Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature

Habelschwerdter Allee 45
Gebäude Rost- und Silberlaube
14195 Berlin

Mail: _hwinkel at zedat.fu-berlin.de <mailto:hwinkel at zedat.fu-berlin.de>_


_Matthias Schwartz, Dr. des. 
<http://www.oei.fu-berlin.de/kultur/mitarbeiter/wissenschaftliche_mitarbeiterbeiter/schwartz/index.html>_

Freie Universität Berlin

Institute for East-European Studies

Garystr. 55

14195 Berlin

Mail: _schwartz at zedat.fu-berlin.de <mailto:schwartz at zedat.fu-berlin.de>_





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