Every five years or so, the AAA meetings fall a little later in the year, making us wish the meetings were some place warm (remember New Orleans 2010?) rather than a city with an average December HIGH of about 47F degrees (remember Philadelphia 2009?). Nonetheless, it is sure to be a good turnout this year, […]
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AAGE guide to the meetings: Gerontological Association of America, Nov 5-9,2014
October is quickly upon us, and for many of us that means that it is time to start thinking again about those fall conferences we submitted abstracts for back in March. While AAGE has not had its own booth at the meetings in recent years, it still holds its annual business meetings at the two […]
Call for papers: 2015 AAGE conference Health Disparities in Aging
We are pleased to announce thenext Workshop Conference of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology, to be held at Florida International University in Miami, February 5-7, 2015. This year’s conference theme is: “Health Disparities in Aging.” We will consider entries on aging among minority groups, the experience of aging among immigrants, and other vulnerable populations […]
AAGE member panels at the IUAES Inter-Congress, May 15-18, 2014 in Chiba, Japan
The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Studies will be holding its annual Inter-Congress in Chiba, Japan from May 15-18. It will be held in conjunction with the 50th anniversary meeting of JASCA (Japanese Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology). According to the IUAES Commission on Aging and the Life Course, co-chaired by Leng Leng […]
AAGE at AAA 2014, Washington DC, December 3-7 2014
April 15th is the deadline for submitting poster and panel abstracts for the 113th AAA Annual Meeting. The theme of the meeting is “Producing Anthropology,” which, the Program Chairs note, also produces a wealth of questions about anthropology: “what are our epistemological commitments to the ways we make scientific knowledge today? What impact do our […]
Global Aging Forum at GSA Annual Scientific Meeting, Nov. 24
PDF of this Flyer: FINAL Global Aging Forum at 2013 GSA-flyer Sun, Nov 24 I 11:45 am-5:00 pm I Sheraton Hotel, Oak Alley Room I $30 (Lunch included). Focus on transnational research and educational efforts concerning global aging and health. A stellar cast of speakers will advance our understanding of ongoing activities and outline future […]
AAGE X ACYIG: Richard Zimmer on generational links in special needs families
When I was in San Diego last spring for the SPA/ACYIG Meeting (Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group), I attended a panel discussion on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (which only the USA and Somalia are yet to ratify). Many of us are involved in similar political advocacy for the […]
Upcoming events
You can now view upcoming events on our google calendar below. You can also download the calendar here Or print it hereAging events at AAA
AAA Report from Jay Sokolovsky
San Francisco is always a big draw and this meeting had over 6000 participants and many sessions and papers on aging. The AAA Interest Group and AAGE collaboratively organized two special events: An Interlocutor Event on Senior Activism with Anthropologist Roger Sanjek and Berkeley activist Harvey Smith being interviewed by Jay Sokolovsky and Athena Mclean. The […]