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JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES Youth Culture/s in Europe A One-Day Conference to be held in June 2007 at Kingston University, London CALL FOR PAPERS The conference is sponsored by the Journal of Contemporary European Studies and seeks to provide a forum for critical, interdisciplinary debate on discourses of youth cultures in European countries. Contributions from a wide variety of perspectives are encouraged, either as single country or comparative studies, such as: - Youth culture and /class/gender/race - Youth culture as political contestation - Consumption and cultural resistance - Cultural practice and commodification - Immigrant youth culture - Youth-specific media - Boys and the 'feminisation' of education - 'Girl power' - Youth as 'key to the future' - Youth and crime - Global youth culture - Spaces of youth culture - Poverty and unemployment To find out more about the JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES, please visit the journal website at: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk. Proposals for papers of approx. twenty minutes in length are invited on any aspect of this topic. Proposals, including a 200-400 word abstract, should be sent by 30th September 2006 to the organizers at the following address: Martha Wörsching Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies Loughborough University, LOUGHBOROUGH LE11 3TU/UK Tel +00 44 (0)1509 222998 [log in to unmask] http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/eu/ Office Hours: Dissertations: Tuesday from 10-11 am General: Thursday from 101-11 am Reviews Editor of the JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES For further information on this journal, please visit the following website: http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/