Youth at the Edge

This session approaches the theme of this year’s congress reflectively. Understanding it is devoted to the exploration of the tensions of inclusion and exclusion, it reflects on the unwitting barriers that the congress itself creates to student participation and the hierarchies that it inevitably erects among participants, who are ordered by the level of their academic and professional experiences into students/professors/ independent scholars, and so on. Heeding the congress’s call for “the need for inclusivity, and the acceptance of diversity… by creative interdisciplinary research activities in the humanities and social sciences”, this panel is devoted to student research. Specifically, we are interested in attracting papers of students that are at the beginning of their scholarly careers, at the undergraduate or early graduate level, with research interests intersecting with many articulations of the “edge”:

• Youth Experiences and Risk, “at the edge”
• The Edge as Liminal Space (inclusion/exclusion)•Cultural Expressions and Youth “As” the Edge
• “Edgy” Sexualities
• The Edge of Knowledge, The Limits of Knowing
• Excess and the Edge
• The Edge and the Untouched
• The Edge and Alterity

This session is cross listed with the Canadian Association for Comparative Literature and Gender and Women’s Studies.

Session Organizer and Chair: Serena Petrella, PhD, Brandon University, petrellas@brandonu.ca
Session Co-organizer: Jonathan Allan, Brandon University, allanj@brandonu.ca

Session Code: SoFCY6

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