screening spaces of youth symposium 2024
Keynote speaker: Prof. Pamela Robertson Wojcik (University of Notre Dame)
Screening Spaces of Youth aims to bring together scholars interested in the representation of youth in audiovisual texts media, including cinema, television and other media. More specifically, this one-day online symposium places its focus on onscreen representations of spaces of youth. That is, of the spaces that young people inhabit and interact with in films, television, video-games and other forms of media.
Screening Spaces of Youth aims to bring together scholars interested in the representation of youth in audiovisual texts media, including cinema, television and other media. More specifically, this one-day online symposium places its focus on onscreen representations of spaces of youth. That is, of the spaces that young people inhabit and interact with in films, television, video-games and other forms of media.
In order to leave ample room for different approaches to the topic, we understand youth in its widest sense, as a period that encompasses childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. During these pre-adult life stages, young people inhabit spaces that are never truly theirs. The spaces that children and teenagers interact with are often bound to the decisions of the adults around them, as well as to the rules of institutions controlled by adults. More often than not, children and teenagers are unable to choose their place of residence, where they spend most of their days, and what spaces are available to them. While young adults may have more of a say in the matter, the precarity of the coming-of-age process renders them subject to the whims of the employment and housing markets. With security and stability far from guaranteed, they remain in a post-adolescent limbo, the markers—and spaces of—adulthood out of their reach. Yet, it cannot be said that young people lack agency. Through interaction with spaces, children, teenagers and young adults make them their own, adapting themselves to the spaces within their reach and repurposing those spaces to better suit their needs and desires. Through this process, then, young people reconfigure spaces and their boundaries, imbuing them with new meanings.
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Contact email: [email protected]
Conference organisers:
Dr Maria Elena Alampi (University of Exeter)
Andrés Buesa (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Dr Luis Freijo (King’s College London)
Dr Andrea Sofía Regueira Martín (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Ella Wright (University of Birmingham)
Xanthe Pajarillo (University of Birmingham)
Contact email: [email protected]
Conference organisers:
Dr Maria Elena Alampi (University of Exeter)
Andrés Buesa (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Dr Luis Freijo (King’s College London)
Dr Andrea Sofía Regueira Martín (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Ella Wright (University of Birmingham)
Xanthe Pajarillo (University of Birmingham)
