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Friday, November 2nd                                                                                                                                                                                           

09:30-10:00	Opening: Matthias Schwartz, Heike Winkel (Berlin)
Section 1:	The Redefinition of the Political (Moderation: Heike Winkel)
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 Revision of the Social I: New Types of Belonging (Moderation: Stefan Kirmse)
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 Revision of the Social II: New Media Techniques (Moderation: Tom Junes)
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 (Moderation: José Alaniz)
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 (Moderation: Hilary Pilkington)
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: 'Respect' 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 (Moderation: Matteo Colombi, GWZO Leipzig)
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 Cinema, Youths and National Stereotypes (Żamojda, Żuławski)

 

Sunday, November 4th                                                                                                                                                                                           

Section 4:	The Transformation of the Imaginary II: Appropriating and Subverting Identity Patterns (Moderation: Matthias Schwartz)
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