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Ordinary lives, Everyday People? Young people, social change and popular cultures, 1930-2000
10-11 April 2025, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Graduate Conference
In the mid-1980s work by McRobbie and Garber and Clarke suggested that scholars of youth subcultures turn their attention to the everyday, the ordinary and the feminine – but this promise has only been partly realised.
Recent interventions in the histories of everyday life, the emotions and the category of ordinariness suggest that these remain useful frameworks for conceptualising youthful experiences. We suggest they could reinvigorate the study of youth cultures.
Registration
You can register for the conference via our Eventbrite page.
There will also be master-classes in getting published, applying for funding and working with museums, archives and third-sector partners. Participants will be offered the opportunity to submit worked-up papers to be selected for publication in an edited collection in the re-launched Subcultures, Music and Social Change series published by Manchester University Press.
There is no conference fee but if you wish to attend, we ask that you please register in advance.