ARCYP AT CONGRESS 2012

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Monday, May 28, 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Project Groundings: A Transnational Approach to Art and Youth Identity Development

In conjunction with Nia Centre for the Arts

Emerging Artists from Nia Centre for the Arts articulate their life stories through spoken word, theatre, and photography, exploring the complex ways in which Afrodiasporic identity is textured, disrupted, and devalued by everyday occurrences of violence.  How might art address systemic violence in African Jamaican and African Canadian lives?

Tuesday, May 29
ROUNDTABLE

The Friendly Giant’s “Empty Chair”: The Missing Histories of Canadian Children’s Media Industries

Although Canada has a long and distinguished history of producing media texts for children (children’s television, film, music, magazines, and video games), that history is often invisible.  This roundtable of scholars and practitioners will begin to recuperate the history of Canadian children’s cultural industries.

PANELS

Troubling Normativity: Race/Whiteness in the Popular Cultures Of Young People

Youth Creators, Thinkers, and Expressions of “Child Consciousness” 

Youth, (Imaginary) Borders, and the Nation State

SOCIAL CELEBRATION

Pub Dinner: Food, Drink, and Fine Company

The Association for Research in Cultures of Young People (ARCYP) was founded in 2008 by scholars from various disciplines:

Led by President Peter E. Cumming, the association is currently housed with the Children’s Studies Program in the Department of Humanities at York University in Toronto.

Membership in ARCYP is open to any cultural producer, academic, professional, or interested person engaged in the production, research, teaching, or study of young people’s texts and cultures.

MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS

• take part in listserv discussion
• receive news, Calls for Papers, and notification about conferences
• receive biannual newsletter
• network with other researchers of youth cultures
• help steer ARCYP’s growth and programs
• participate in annual conference presentations
• share “News of Members” on the Website and in the newsletter