Thursday, 15.5.2014
14.00-14.30 Opening Remarks
Marcel van der Linden (Amsterdam), Stefan Berger (Bochum), Michaela Kuhnhenne (Düsseldorf)
Introduction: Knud Andresen (Hamburg), Bart van der Steen (Leiden)
14.30-15.30 Keynote Address:
Sebastian Haunss (Bremen): Unrest or Social Movement? Some Conceptual Clarifications
16.00-18.00 Panel 1: Youth Unrest in Consensus Democracies
Linus Owen (Middlebury): Activism and Travel Networks
Robert Foltin (Vienna): March 1st 1981 in Vienna: A Strange Demonstration
Adrienne Sörbom / Jan Jämte (Stockholm) Autonomous Movement and Antifa in Denmark
Chair: Bart van der Steen (Leiden)
Friday, 16.5.2014
9.00-11.00 Panel 2: Youth unrest in East- and South Europe
Oskar Mulej (Budapest): Punk in Slovenia and Yugoslavia
Nikolaus Papadogiannis (Berlin): The Party is Over? Youth Protest in Greece 'around 1980'
Grzegorz Pietrowski (Stockholm): The Jaroclin Rock Festival in Poland (1980-1986)
Chair: Lex Heerma van Voss (Den Haag)
11.30 -13.30 Panel 3: Youth in postcolonial Societies
Didier Chabanet (Lyon) The French Republic “One and Indivisible” Challenge to the Suburbs: The Turning Point of the 1980s
Almuth Ebke (Mannheim): Bloody Brixton”: Placing the Riots of 1980/81 in British Post-Imperial History
Chair:Anna Tijsseling (Leiden)
14.30-16.30 Panel 4: Spaces in Youth Movement
David Templin (Hamburg): Youth Center Initiatives in the „Youth Revolt“ of 1980/81
Jan-Hendrik Friedrichs (Berlin): Revolt or Transgression? Squatted Houses and the Heroin Scene as Spaces of Transgressive Youth in the Early 1980s
Aline Maldener (Saarbrücken): To have and have not – The 1981 Youth Revolt in Germany and Great Britain as Point of Culmination in a Youth-centered 1960s and 1970s Consumer Culture
Chair: Knud Andresen (Hamburg)
17.00-19.00 Panel 5: Reactions in Politics and Media
Jake Smith (Chicago): From Apathy to Subversion: Envisioning European Youth Movements, 1980-87.
Jan Hansen (Berlin): Defining Political Dissidence: How did the “Establishment” react to Extra-Parliamentary Protest?
Freia Anders (Mainz) / Alexander Sedlmair (Bangor): Debates, Definitions, Developments: Comparative Perspectives on Squatting in the Early 1980s
Chair: Klaus Weinhauer (Bielefeld)
Saturday, 17.5.2014
9.00-10.30 Panel 6: Beyond Youth Revolts
Dario Fazzi (Middelburg): A Global, Western Concern. The Transatlantic and Environmental Dimension of the European Youth Revolts of the Early Eighties.
Monika Baàr (Groningen): The European ‘Disability ‘Revolts’ of 1981: How were they Related to the Youth Movement?
Chair: Pepijn Brandon (Amsterdam)
11.00 – 12.30 Panel 7: Youth and Radical Politics
Joachim Häberlen (Warwick): Between Autonomous Youth Centers and Free Sight on the Mediterranean Sea: The Politics of Subjectivity in the Youth Revolts of 1980/81
Mathew Worley (Reading): Punk and Politics: The British Experience
Chair: Joost Augusteijn (Amsterdam)
13.30 –Final Discussion