Dates: May 22, 2016 – May 25, 2016
Location: Western University, Faculty of Education, London, Ontario, Canada
This international Symposium is aimed at developing and extending a dialogue to address what appears both nationally and internationally as a growing concern for youth sexualized identities. This event centres on taking up a critical dialogue that will examine the education tensions in Canada and beyond that are currently emerging as schools gradually acknowledge and develop curriculum that better reflects a changing reality of the complexity of youth identities.
Who should attend:
- Academics
- Graduate students
- Health agencies
- Researchers
- Teachers
Abstract submissions for panel discussions could address any of the following either singularly or as they overlap and intersect:
- Adolescent, youth bodies, school bodies
- Bodies and the curriculum that names and frames youth
- Body image
- Bullying
- Competing/antagonistic discourses of youth sexual identities
- Curriculum
- Dynamic dialogue
- Femininities
- Health and Physical Education
- Homophobia
- Masculinities
- Pedagogy
- Producing/disrupting/interrogating heteronormativity across youth through curricula
- Schools as site for the (re)production of sexual identities
- Sex education
- Sexting, technology and youth identities
- Sexual cultures of school children
- Sexual surveillance of youth
- Sexual violence against youth
- Sexualities
- Sexualized identities
- Students as sexual subjects
- The “myth of childhood innocence”
- Youth identities, sexed, classed, raced
- Youth subjectivities
more details can be found here
