Congresses and Forums

March-November 2015 How are young people living in the global South the same as or differ to their peers in the global North, and what strategies, policies and theories have we developed to help them succeed? This question has prompted Sharlene Swartz (Vice President for Africa and the Middle East) to convene a Consortium of…

Tuesday 23rd & Wednesday 24th June 2015 (Maynooth University, Ireland) (*note extended deadline*)   Papers are invited on all aspects of change and mobility that are relevant to youth studies. In what ways, and to what extent, is transformation or “movement” evident in the individual and collective lives of young people, in services, policies and…

Young people, wellbeing and inequality One day conference and edited collection   16th April, 2015 (University of Leeds, UK) Co-convenors: Jo Pike, University of Leeds, UK Peter Kelly, RMIT, Australia Rationale The unfolding effects of what some are calling the Great Recession in Europe and the US, and the emergence of sovereign debt crises and…

KISMIF International Conference 2015 13-17 July 2015 (Porto, Portugal)     International Conference Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! Crossing Borders of Underground Music Scenes Summer School Gettin’ Underground Together CALL FOR PAPERS   Abstracts Submission: From 5th November 2014 to 15th February 2015. Dates: KISMIF International Conference: 15th – 17th July 2015 Summer School…

AN INVITATIONAL TWO (2) DAY CONFERENCE AND EDITED COLLECTION December 7 and 8, 2015 (Melbourne, Australia)   A society at war with its children is a society in deep crisis (Conway, 2012)   Hope is a way of dreaming up possible futures: an anticipatory virtue that permeates our lives and activates them (Braidotti, 2013) Co-convenors:…

28-30 October 2014 Baku, Azerbaijan     The programme of the First Global Forum on Youth Policies follows its original idea to organise discussions between youth policy leaders, experts and practitioners – a space for our professional community to exchange, reflect and discuss. Against that backdrop, most sessions are build around discussion formats. There will…

Advancing strategies and child protection systems to protect our children and their rights  20th – 21st November 2014 Cape Town Lodge Hotel & Conference Centre Cape Town (South Africa)   The Inaugural Child Protection & Online Safety Conference brings together family members (and the child where appropriate), supporters/advocates and those professionals most involved with the…

There is a call for papers to be presented in a conference this Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd December, 2014 in Monash University Caulfield Campus, Melbourne. It’s theme is Interactive Futures: Young People’s Mediated Lives in the Asia Pacific and Beyond and this conference explores young people’s engagement with new modes of mediated communication, self-expression…

This conference aims at understanding the reality of crisis Japanese youth have been facing and examining the possibility of hope for them with empirical and comparative approach. Three sessions are organized about crisis and hope in family formation and partnership, social and political participation, and transition and life planning respectively. The first question is what…

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