10.-11. June 2021 / Online via zoom
Concept and Organization: Katharina Seibert (Department for Contemporary History, University of Vienna) in cooperation with Barnabás Bálint (Magdalen College, University of Oxford)
The turmoil of the mid-twentieth century saw young people mobilized for action across Europe in an unprecedented manner. Concurrently, against the backdrop of the struggle between democratic and authoritarian projects, young people increasingly became a target of state legislation, (mass) organizations and other institutions. From the end of the First World War to the aftermath of the Second World War, Europe witnessed fundamental changes in the social regimes that determined societal power distribution.
This workshop approaches interwar history by looking through the lens of age and gender as interdependent categories of analysis. In doing so, we reveal how adult perceptions of youth and gender framed young men and women’s lives and their roles in society. Furthermore, we explore how these perceptions collided with youth agency, probing the specific age- and gender-related dynamics of empowerment and organization.
By zooming in on the concrete young actors and the institutional settings that limited their scope of action, processes of subjectivation will be contrasted with institutionalized attempts to control and lead the young. As such, we contribute to a global academic discussion on age, gender, the lifecycle, and intersectionality and add to more recent studies of youth that go beyond the analysis of youth organizations.
Participation is free and everyone is welcome! Please register: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=G96VzPWXk0-0uv5ouFLPkWht-eUoPBlBpvwnB9J4c51URU1ZR1lTVUpNTUk0UlpRWEZMSThaNTZPUi4u
Details about zoom will be sent upon registration.
For further questions, please contact: rallyingeurope.zeitgeschichte@univie.ac.at
