RC34 Members in Beijing Conference 2008

RC34 members – Maurice Delvin, Steven Sek-yum Ngai, Marc Molgat, Vinod Chandra and Fang Wei – participated in the “International Symposium on Youth Employment: Preparation, Opportunities and Challenges”, organized by the China Youth University for Political Science in Beijing, China on October 30, 2008. The photos were taken together with Lu De-ping, Deputy Director for the Academy of Youth Development and Li Jia-hua, Vice Chancellor for the China Youth University for Political Science.

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ISA-RC34 Barcelona Forum on Youth: A Success

SOCIAL SCIENCE academics worldwide brought a new wave of academic heat to the First Forum of Sociology of the International Sociological Association (ISA) held at Barcelona, Spain from September 5 – 8, 2008. Our RC 34 – Sociology of Youth organized a total of 12 sessions, including one open session and a joint-session with two research committees, RC 13 – Sociology of Leisure and RC 53 – Sociology of Childhood. The open session attracted several hundreds of participants and the 70 paper presentations at various sessions were received with favorable attendance.


Our general theme, Growing-up in a Liquid World: Youth Questions and Public Debates covered a number of interesting discussions such as the concept of ‘generation’, youth theories, research and policy issues impacting various young persons around the world.

ISA Forum Plenary

The success of this RC 34 activity would not be possible if not for the hard work and dedication of Carles Feixa and Carmen Leccardi, our Vice-Presidents from Europe. Thanks so much for this initiative. I would also like to acknowledge and express my gratitude to the members of the Executive Board and the Advisory Board, the organizing committee, as well as the Catalan Youth Observatory of the Catalan Youth Agency, who rendered support to make this academic meeting a worthwhile meeting of youthful minds and spirit.

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I look forward to having another successful international conference like this in the coming years where we shall continue learning from each other, making sure that the discourse on the sociology of youth around the world will continue to flourish.

Dr. Ngan-pun Ngai
President

More photos of Barcelona 2008 ISA Forum click here.

Minutes of Rc34 2nd Executive Board Meeting at Barcelona, September 6, 2008

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Meet our RC 34 Board

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RC 34 Board of Directors (2006-2010)
From left: Natalie Watcher (Treasurer), Howard Williamson (Secretary), Ngan-pun Ngai(President), Tom Dwyer (VP-Latin America), Helena Helve (Ex-president), Carmen Leccardi (VP-Europe), Ani Wierenga (VP– Australia), Charles Ukeje (VP-Africa), Vinod Chandra (VP-Asia), Carles Feixa (VP-Europe), Clarence M. Batan (IBYR editor). Not in picture James Côté (VP-North America) & Shen Jie (VP-Asia).

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by Clarence M. Batan

Bringing together salient information about young people for youth researchers’ consumption is a daunting task. This is the challenge I faced in bringing forth a new fresh look to our website. For its design, I used a combination of playful fonts and pictures embedded in subtle earth colors, aimed at highlighting the “academic” as well as the “youth” in us. I look forward to receiving articles, news and other related information from you or from other online visitors. This maybe the fastest and the most efficient way to inform the world’s academics, researchers and policy-makers about your youth projects and initiatives. So keep me updated and if you request, I will upload it to this website.

Submit comments/inquiries to clarencebatan@gmail.com.

Updated: October 3, 2008

 

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