BIN Norden invites everyone with an interest in Child culture to participate.
Registration will open soon
The conference The Poetics and Politics of Child Culture(s) draws attention to the aesthetic, practical, economic, and ideological possibilities and challenges that child and youth cultures are facing today. We welcome abstracts (250 words) on child and youth culture in various contexts and exploring all aspects of the conference theme. Deadline for abstract submission is December 15, 2024.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- Censorship and bans of culture by, for, and among children and young people
- Child and youth culture at the intersection of age, dis/ability, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class etc
- Children and young people’s right to culture
- Children’s work/labour in relation to cultural and creative industries, media etc
- Culture exploring (im)possibilities, challenging norms and transcending borders/boundaries
- Opportunities and constraints in artistic expressions for children and youth, such as film, literature, television, games, theatre, dance, circus etc.
- Silences and absences in child and youth culture
- Spaces and places of child and youth culture
- Mediated cultures, digital technologies, online cultures
- History of child and youth culture
- Consumer cultures, consumption and prosumption
- Cultural heritage
- Indigenous cultures and heritage
- Play cultures
- Everyday leisure cultures
- Material cultures
- Food cultures