• Photos from China youth activities: [Photo1];  [Photo2].
• Job opening: Professor in Sociology - Victoria University of Wellington
• 1 - 2 May 2007 National youth conference: ARE WE THERE YET? Melbourne
  A conference for youth workers, young people, educators, policy-makers, academics and researchers, and for anyone interested in youth affairs in Australia. International insights and comparative perspecitives are very welcome! Hosted by the Youth Affairs Council of Victoria in partnership with Australia's other State and Territory non-government youth affairs peak bodies, and supported by the Department of Victorian Communities, Victorian State Government. Theme: Are we there yet: past learnings, current realities, future directions. The conference will cover several themes including Youth Participation, Mental Health and Employment, Education and Training. Call for abstracts: 18 September 2006. Abstracts for research-based papers close 15 November 2006. Full papers submitted for peer-refereeing on 7 February 2007. Early-bird registrations: January-February 2007, registrations close: 27 April 2007. For more information contact Erin Johnson on email at: conference@yacvic.org.au Download this announcement as .pdf file
• ISA Research Committee Activities Report: Final Report for 2002-2006 and Reports on activities 2004-2006
• Minutes from RC34 Board meeting in Durban, 28th July 2006
• Letter from the President N.P.Ngai, 2nd August 2006
• Letter from IBYR editor: I am very pleased to be your new International Bulletin of Youth Research (IBYR) news editor for 2006-2010. For more than fours years now, this news bulletin is housed under our website (http://www.alli.fi/youth/research/ibyr/index.htm), which proves to be a great venue for updates and exchanges of youth-related information - be it about upcoming conferences or new publications. With your support, I shall continue to make use of this electronic medium in maintaining virtual relationship with the entire RC 34 membership and other interested individuals or organizations... read more
• Bread and Fish - article about the Durban conference written by Ani Wierenga, Vice President for Australia, New Zealand and Oceania: This South Africa visit was for the International Sociological Association Conference. I heard that about 4000 of us descended on Durban for the conference. Thankfully the youth research strand (Research Committee 34) is a little smaller than that (I think we have 133 members from 43 countries - many of whom attended) and like other research committees this one had a 6 day internal program of its own with a solid membership and collegial core group. Like others I co-chaired some session and gave a paper. And then we disbanded by 8.30 every night and usually re-convened at a nice little watering hole at the docklands called 'Cafe Fish' ... read more
• ISA 2006 Durban photos
• 2nd Call for papers: CODESWITCHING As a memorial volume to honor Rodolfo Jacobson
• 2nd Call for papers: Youth, Globalization and Migration – Local Diver-sity in Transition. Mid-way conference in the European Sociological Association’s (ESA) Re-search Network 'Youth & Generation'

• LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT, 2006 and Programme, RC34, ISA WC Durban 24-29 July 2006
• Conference announcement: Young People and Modern Technologies: Focusing on the positives, Thursday 19 October, , Manchester
• New book: A New Youth? Young People, Generations and Family Life
• New book: Mortimer, Jeylan T. and Michael J. Shanahan (eds.). 2003. Handbook of the Life Course. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Paperback edition, Springer, 2006
• Call for Proposals for the 3rd Conference on Emerging Adulthood (ages
  18-29) is available (http://www.ssea.org). The conference will take place on February 15-16, 2007, in Tucson, Arizona
• The RC34 board has the pleasure to announce that Dennis Zuev of Krasnoyarsk State University has won the award of the Young Youth Sociologists with his paper "Youth travel ideology in Russia."
• YOUNG - Nordic Journal of Youth Research: First 10 issues, from 1993 to 2002 are now available online
• Call for Papers: An international conference, Young People at the Crossroads, 1-5 September 2006, Petrozavodsk, Karelian Republic, Russian Federation. V Международная конференция по молодежным исследованиям ?#1052;олодежь на перекрестках? Петрозаводск, Россия, 1-5 сентября 2006 года

• The 7^th International Conference on Asian Youth Issues, December 5-9, 2005, Macao. Closing Remarks by Ngan-Pun Ngai, ISA Vice President (for Asia), December 7, 2005
• The Fifth Shanghai International Forum for Children: Children’s Safety and Social Responsibility - Report
• Minutes from RC34 Board meeting in Macao, 8th December, 2005
• DURBAN 2006 - Second Call for Papers (update, October 2005): Research Committee on Sociology of Youth RC34, ISA World Congress of Sociology The Quality of Social Existence in a Globalising World. More information and sessions abstracts are on RC34 bulletin's web pages.
• A new book by the authors from RC 34: Contemporary Youth Research Local Expressions and Global Connections, Helena Helve and Gunilla Holm
• NOTICE TO ALL RC34 MEMBERS: If you have changed your contact information recently, especially your email address, please notify Howard Williamson at howardw@glam.ac.uk so he can update your file. This is especially important as the World Congress approaches next year and notices will be sent concerning that conference and the election of board members preceding it.
• RC34 members have now free trial access to the journal YOUNG until the end of November. Register at www.sagepublications.com/youngfreetrial 
• New book:  Internet, Interaction and Networking: Post-national Identities of Youth in Cities around the Baltic Sea, edited by Carsten Yndigegn, Peter Waara, Kari Paakkunainen
• Call for papers for "Investment and Citizenship: Towards
  Transdisciplinary Dialogue in Child & Youth Rights". Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario on July 19-21, 2006. The deadline for submissions is September 12, 2005
• Report: EUYOUPART ?Youth, Politics and the Future of European Democracy, results of a biennial research project presented in Brussels

• DURBAN 2006 - Call for Papers (update, April 2005): Research Committee on Sociology of Youth RC34, ISA World Congress of Sociology The Quality of Social Existence in a Globalising World.
• Call for Participation: Competition for Junior Scholars in Youth Sociology
• Letter from Clarence Batan: Fieldwork in the Philippines
• Job announcement for a RESEARCHER at AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE FOR YOUTH RESEARCH

• Book looking for reviews: Mach?#269;ek, L. (2004) Youth in Slovakia and European Identity, Bratislava
• Ngan-Pun Ngai RC34 Vice President for Asia reports on the 6th International Conference on Asian Youth Issues, Economic Globalization and Youth Employment, 15-19 October 2004, Beijing
• New book by Howard Williamson - The Milltown Boys Revisited (Berg Publishers, publication 4th November 2004) Press release
• The University of Minnesota is pleased to announce a postdoctoral position, a National Research Service Award, sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health.

• RC34 Board meeting: Roskilde, Denmark, 12-13 June 2003

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