Friday, November 2nd
9:30-10:00 Opening: Matthias Schwartz, Heike Winkel (Berlin)
Section 1: The Redefinition of the Political
10:00-11:00
Keynote Speaker: Ken Roberts (Liverpool): Youth Cultures and the Formation of a New Political Generation in Eastern Europe
11:00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.30
Félix Krawatzek (Oxford): Youth Mobilisation in its Relation to Politics. Comparing Perestroika and the Putin / Medvedev Era
Anna Zhelnina (St. Petersburg): “Young Politics”? The Emergence of the Social Network of Young Politicians in St. Petersburg, Russia
Tom Junes (Vienna): No More Politics? 1989 and the End of the 'Classical' Student Movement in Poland
13.30-15:00 Lunch break
Section 2: The Revison of the Social I: New Types of Belonging
15:00-17:00
Herwig Reiter, Christine Steiner (Berlin): Two Different Countries, two Different Pathways to Capitalism – one New Youth?
Maciej Bernasiewicz (Katowice): Worldview Discourses in Polish Magazines for Young People and Hip-Hop Music
Vlad Strukov (Leeds): ‘Optimistic’ Youth: Media Environment, Politics of Space and Construction of Identity
17.00-17.30 Coffee break
The Revison of the Social II: New Media Techniques
17.30-19.00
Patryk Wasiak (Wassenaar): 'Video-Fans' and Computer Bosses'. Consumer Electronics ad Youth Identities in the Late State-socialist Poland
Sabina-Adina Luca, Bogdan Gheorghita and Dragos Dragoman (Sibiu): Young People in Romania. How 'New Media' Shape Social Communication and Political Activism
Saturday, November 3rd
Section 3: Rethinking Youth I: Beyond Generation
10.00-11:00
Keynote Speaker: Hilary Pilkington (Manchester): Punk – but not as we know it: Rethinking Youth Culture from a Post-socialist Perspective
11.00-12:30
Stefan B. Kirmse (Berlin): How far does 'Eastern Europe' go? Experiences of Youth in Central Asia
Alfrun Kliems (Leipzig/Berlin): Old young men. Popculture and its Aging Protagonists
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
Rethinking Youth II: Post-Socialist Subjectivities
14:00-16:00
Gleb Tsipursky (Newark, Ohio): Youth Communal Policing: Public Discourse and Volunteer Militias in Post-Soviet Russia
José Alaniz (Seattle): Colorful Pictures: 'Respekt' Comics and Russian Youth
Matthias Schwartz (Berlin): Everything Feels Bad: Figurations of the Self in Young Post-Socialist Literature
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
Section 4: The Transformation of the Imaginary I: Constructing Identity Patterns
16:30-18:30
Yaryna Borenko (Lviv): Concepts of Patriotism within Education and Youth Policies in Ukraine
Jovana Papović, Astrea Pejović (Belgrade): Nationalist Iconography of the Nineties in Contemporary Youth Discourse in Serbia
Robert Pruszczyński (Warschau): Masculinity without a Rebel, a Rebel without a Masculinity. Polish Cinemy, Youths and National Stereotypes (Żamojda, Żuławski)
Sunday, November 4th
Section 4: The Transformation of the Imaginary II: Appropriating and Subverting Identity Patterns
10:00-11:20
Catriona Kelly (Oxford): The End of Childhood and/or the Discovery of the Tineidzher? Reflections on Age Boundaries and Boundaries in Chronology
Matthias Meindl (Zürich): The Fight of/for the Youth: Russian Youth Movements and their Representation in Contemporary Russian Literature
11:20-11:40 Coffee break
11:40-13:00
Anna Oravcová (Prague): Czech Hip-Hop Undergroud
Heike Winkel (Berlin): Loners and Gangs. Communality in Contemporary Eastern European Literature
13:00-14:00 Concluding discussion