Full Programme…

Programme
09.30	Registration
10.00	Welcome: ‘Young Citizen’ Dr Sarah Mills (University of Leicester)   Introductions
10.15	Keynote Paper: From biography to citizenship: can young people re-invent adulthood? Professor Rachel Thomson (Sussex University)   Questions
11.15	Tea/Coffee
11.30	Keynote Panel: Spaces of Youth Citizenship Dr Tom Cockburn (University of Bradford), Dr Jo-Anne Dillabough (University of Cambridge), Dr Jane Pilcher (University of Leicester), Graeme Tiffany (Federation for Detached Youth Work), Dr Fiona Smith (University of Dundee)   Questions & Discussion
12.30	Lunch
13.30	Workshop Session 1: Conceptual Questions and Challenges F75a and F34   Discussion
14.30	Short Paper Session Chair: Dr Peter Kraftl (University of Leicester)   Online Spaces of Youth Citizenship: Interaction With Community Through The Village Forum Sarah Smith (University of Leicester) There is no alternative? The UK student movement 2010 as a challenge to sociological understandings of youth in late modernity Rowan Rheingans (Newcastle University) Whose agenda? Music, Subversion and Active Citizenship Luke Dickens & Douglas Lonie (Goldsmiths, University of London/Youth Music)   Questions
15.30	Tea/Coffee & Cake
16.00	Workshop Session 2: Methodological Questions and Challenges F75a and F34   Closing Discussion
17.00	Finish

One Day Workshop: Spaces of Youth Citizenship

Tuesday 17th January 2012

Department of Geography, University of Leicester

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS AND SHORT PAPERS

Booking is now open for a one-day workshop that will bring together social researchers from a range of academic disciplines, along with non-academic practitioners, who are interested in the study of youth citizenship.  The workshop aims to provide a space to discuss the interplay between youth, citizenship and education and to provoke possible new directions that consider the role of space, place and mobility in the complex geographies of citizenship and youth.

Keynote Speaker: Professor Rachel Thomson (Open University/Sussex University)

Invited Panelists: Dr Tom Cockburn (Social Sciences and Criminal Justice Studies, University of Bradford); Dr Jo-Anne Dillabough (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge); Dr Jane Pilcher (Department of Sociology, University of Leicester); Graeme Tiffany (Federation for Detached Youth Work); Dr Fiona M. Smith (Geography, University of Dundee)

In addition to a keynote lecture and panel session, there will be more interactive discussions to foster critical engagement with key conceptual, theoretical and methodological questions relating to research on youth citizenship.  If you would like to present a short paper or discussion piece (10 minutes) on any of the above themes, please send an abstract of no more than 200 words to Sarah Mills (sm599@le.ac.uk) by Friday 4th November 2011.

The cost for attending the event is £10 (free for unwaged or postgraduate) which includes lunch and light refreshments.  However, places are limited so booking is required by Friday 2^nd December 2011.

Welcome

This blog will feature information and updates about a forthcoming workshop entitled ‘Spaces of Youth Citizenship’ to be held at the Department of Geography, University of Leicester in January 2012.

More details and a call for participants will be posted in due course.