1st Global Conference
Friday 3rd July – Saturday 5th July 2009
Mansfield College, Oxford
The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.
Final Conference Programme (v.1.3g)
Friday 3rd July 2009
from 12.30
Registration
13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Rob Fisher and Harry Blatterer
14.00
Session 1: Concepts and Critiques
Chair: Harry Blatterer
Jan Baars
The Meaning of Age: Cultures Meet Biology
Peter Caws and Julia Glahn
The Irrelevance of Chronological Age
Monica Payne
“Teen Brain” Science and the Contemporary Storying of Psychological (Im)maturity
15.30
Tea/Coffee
16.00
Session 2: Elders and the Collectivity
Chair: Christina (Ina) Olohan
Judie C. Davies
Making Sense of Ageing: Multidisciplinary Course Modules Provide a Guide to Creating “age-friendly communities”
Juliana Mansvelt
Learning through Consumption: Placing Ageing through the Life Course
Peter Whitecross
Being Heard: Community Participation Across the Life Course
17.30
Notices and Announcements
17.40
Wine Reception
18.30
Dinner
Saturday 4th July 2009
09.00
Session 3: Old Traditions, New Mores
Chair: Andrea Nicolas
Harry Blatterer
Without a Centre that Holds: Contemporary Adulthood and the Devolving Life Course
Rebecca Raby
Theorizing Liminal Adulthood and its Consequences for Youth
Eiji Gon
Light and Shadow of ‘Active and Independent Senior’: From Life History of Japanese ‘pre-elderly’
10.30
Tea/Coffee
11.00
Session 4a. Wisdom and Old Age
Chair: Monica Payne
Giuliana Di Biase
Wisdom and Old Age
John-Raphael Staude
Last Works. The Late Life Creativity of Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann
Sheila Mason
Practical Wisdom and Overall Life Satisfaction in Aging
Session 4b: Transitions to Adulthood
Chair: Harry Blatterer
Valentina Cuzzocrea and Sveva Magaraggia
Blurred Transitions: Revisiting the Significance of Work and Parenthood for Young Adults in Italy
Andrea Nicolas
Like Fathers, Like Sons: Age Staging and Generational Stumbling Blocks. The Boran Gada Experience
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 5a: Practice and Ethics
Chair: Peter Whitecross
James V. Gambone
Together For Tomorrow: Building Community through Intergenerational Dialogue and Action
Roger Anunsen
Longevity meets Brain Wellness: Where, What & How
Bethany Morgan
Growing Up and Growing Old: Negotiating the Generational Shift in Midlife
Session 5b: Vicissitudes of Growing Old
Chair: Maria Vaccarella
Christie Chung
The Positive Effect in Old Age: Is it Real?
Judith Fadlon
A Time to Keep Silent and a Time to Speak: Past and Present in a Group for the Elderly
Claire Lacoste Kapstein
Sartorial Identity of Professional Women Over Age 60
15.30
Tea/Coffee
16.00
Session 6: Ageing in Context
Chair: Eiji Gon
António M. Fonseca
Trajectories of Ageing in a South European Country: The Case of Portugal
Ravindra Kumar
The Aged in Vedic Society
Pnina Dolberg
Middle Aged Immigrants
17.30
Sessions End
Sunday 5th July 2009
09.00
Session 7: Generations in Context
Chair: Juliana Mansvelt
Tatiana Saburova
“Fathers and Sons”: The Generation Gap in the History of Imperial Russia
Chen Hee Tam
Constructing Generations in China: A Mannheimian
Chai Sen Tyng
What is Successful Ageing? The Meaning of a Good Old Age through the Lives of Older Chinese Malaysians
10.30
Tea/Coffee
11.00
Session 8a: Decline and Renewal
Chair: Ranindra Kumar
Anastasia Kucharski
Dementia, Life Processes and the Experience of the Self
Johanna Wigg
Intimacy among the Socially Dead: Examining Intimacy among Institutionalized Elders with Mid to Late Stage Dementia
Barbara Flood
Re-Writing the Myth of Women and Aging
Session 8b: Ageing and Adaptation
Chair: Christie Chung
James H Cook
Higher Education in Later Life: ‘Cui Bono’?
Miwako Kidahashi
Positive Life Models After Normative Retirement Age: Toward a Typology Construction
Deirdre O’Donnell
Storied Lives: An Exploration of Life Course Narrative Identities and the Factors Linked to Happiness in Later Life
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 9: Elders in Company
Chair: Johanna Wigg
Alexandre Maas
Human Life: A Social Collaborative Itinerary?
Christina (Ina) Olohan
Get Me To A Nunnery: A Reflection on Ageing in Two Different Cultural Contexts, The Nursing Home and the Religious Convent
Christine Stephens
Social Networks of Older People: Negotiating the Moral Landscape of Kinship and Friendship
15.30
Tea/Coffee
16.00
Session 10: Contemplating Life and Death
Chair: Peter Caws
Ian Nichols
World Without End: An Examination of Immortality in Speculative Fiction
Ian Flaherty
The Love Stories of, and the Impact of HIV/AIDS upon, Generations of Gay Men in Urban Australia and New Zealand
17.00
Development Meeting
17.30
Conference Close
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