Panel I: Driving Forces of Youth Cultures
Matthew Worley, University of Reading: 'Suburban relapse: boredom, alienation and despair’
David Wilkinson, Manchester Metropolitan University. ‘Agents of Change’: Post-Punk and the Libertarian Left in Britain
Moderator: Bodo Mrozek (Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam)
Panel II: From the Urban to the Rural. The Influence of Space on Youth Culture
Sian Edwards, University of Sussex: Growing Up in the Countryside
Felix Fuhg, Humboldt University Berlin: The Metropolitan Experience.
Youth Culture as an Urban Phenomenon
Moderator: n.n.
Panel III: Gendering Youth Cultures and its History
Lucy Robinson, University of Sussex: Taking Girls’ Subcultures Seriously
Laura Catherine Cofield, University of Sussex: Riot Grrrls: Fangrrrling Feminism
Moderator: Annette Karpp (Free University Berlin)
Panel IV: The Transformation of the Work and Leisure Regime and its Impact on Teenager
Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton: Coal Mines, Cotton Mills, and English Rock ’n’ Roll: Reflections on the history of work, class, locality, and popular music in post-war Britain
Stephen Catterall, University of Huddersfield: Keeping the Faith: A History of Northern Soul
Moderator: Daniel Tödt (Technical University Berlin)