Carmen Leccardi is Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca. She has conducted European and national theoretical and empirical research in youth cultures and inter-generational comparisons, biographical constructions, gender differences, sociological study of time, changes in cultural models and qualitative research methods. She has taken part in a number of national and international conferences and seminars presenting papers on gender issues, the condition of youth, the experience of time (with particular attention to gender differences) and cultural changes, as well as organizing several international and national conferences and seminars (the last conference she organized is the 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association “Differences, Inequalities, and Sociological Imagination”, Prague, 25-28 August 2015). She has published widely on cultural changes, young women’s cultures, youth and its cultural practices (with specific attention to the changing life course perspective) and temporal orientations.