Member Diaries

I was in Bulgaria over the past few days and, when I arrived on Wednesday, I was told that Petar-Emil Mitev would be at the conference where I was giving a keynote speech on Friday.  You may not know who he is but I have met him a few times, though the last time was…

                                         ‘Campaign’ credentials             President Ana Miranda I have been working in youth studies from the moment I graduated. In 1995, I became part of the Youth Research Program at the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Argentina.  Since then, I have intensely developed academic…

Sibylle Hübner-Funk, RC 34 President from 1990 to 1994, passed away on 5 May 2014 in Munich, Germany. Sibylle was born on 6 January 1943 in Silesian Wroclaw. At the end of the Second World War, she fled with her family to live in western Germany, growing up in the town of Giessen. After her…

Written by Howard Williamson Secretary, RC 34 – Sociology of Youth April 4th 2007 It seems an eternity since I sat through almost a hundred youth research papers during the World Congress in Durban. All those contacts and wonderful plans around things to do together in the future! And then we return to base and…

Written by Ani Wierenga Vice President for Australia, New Zealand and Oceania Background: The following notes were originally written for family and friends at home, to describe my experience of being in Durban for the ISA World Congress of Sociology in July 2006. The piece might provide a sense of the setting for those who…

Letter from Clarence Batan IBYR editor August 2005 Hello my dear friends: Good day. It has been about six months since I left Dalhousie for my Philippine fieldwork. The first three months were challenging. I have to re-introduce myself to our local university where the usual bureaucracy made it difficult for me to carry on…

Ovidiu Badina, founder and first president of RC34, died on April 26, 1999. With his death, youth studies lost a distinguished scholar, and many members of the Research Committee 34 lost a personal friend. Badina, one of the leading figures in Romanian sociology, was born in Breaza-Buzau in 1932 and had a typical academic career…

Teresa López Translator, Interpreter ETSEA Universitat de Lleida Writing this small summary about my week was a good exercise that made me reflect about the different environments I find myself in within the week, or I should say within the day. Monday morning starts at work, in the International Relations Office, where we are supposed…

Carmen Leccardi Department of Sociology and Social Research University of Milan-Bicocca Sunday 6 May Since years, by now, my working week begins on Sunday. I am so used to consider Sunday as the key day for the week agenda that, as far as I’m concerned, it is “occupied” when it is invaded – often not…

Julia Zubo Russian Academy of Science Work on this diary has taken me incredibly long time not just because of lack of it, but also because it was difficult to decide what was more or less important significant in my every day life. Although everyone’s life is unique, our lives are similar in terms of…