20180525_History_Images_Youth_Good_Bad_Ugly

Location

Room 4.36 RRST
Room 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Date

May 25 2018

Time

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Labels

Department of History

Department of History

IMAGES OF YOUTH: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY International Conference “Children and Youth in a Global Age”

 

Professor Colin Heywood
University of Nottingham

 

This keytnote lecture investigates images of youth from the medieval to the modern period. Starting with three case studies revealing the way three French youths depicted themselves, it works outwards to illustrate positive and negative images of youth in their social context. Scaling up analysis to engage with images from the West more generally, it notes the recurrence of certain themes down the ages, and the way adults both idealized and demonized this stage of life.
Colin Heywood is Professor Emeritus of Modern French History at the University of Nottingham. His principal research interest is the social and cultural history of modern France. He has written two monographs on the history of young people: Childhood in Nineteenth-Century France (1988), and Growing Up in Modern France (2007). He has also produced two more general works, A History of Childhood (2nd ed. 2018), and, due out in August this year, Childhood in Modern Europe, for the New Approaches to History series from Cambridge University Press.

All are welcome. No registration is required.

Date/Time: 25/05/2018 16:30 – 18:00
Venue: Room 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Language: English

For further information, please visit: http://www.history.hku.hk/news_s17event_heywood.html

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