2024 AAA Meeting Update from Jay
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AAGE Member Meeting Dec. 6, 2024
Friday, December 6, 2024 12:00 – 1:00 EST Via Zoom: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/96503431622
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Margaret Clark Award Winners 2024!
Congratulations to the 2024 winners of the Margaret Clark Award! This year’s undergraduate prize has been awarded to Azzah Kania Budianto and Sayf Muhammad Alaydrus for their cowritten paper: “Aging into Fabulousness: A Preliminary Study on Successful Aging According to Senior and Young Gay Men in Indonesia.” Azzah Kania Budianto and Sayf Muhammad Alaydrus Department
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Margaret Clark 2024 Best Paper Award
AAGE is pleased to announce its annual call for outstanding graduate and undergraduate student papers to compete for the 2024 Margaret Clark Award. This award supports the continued pursuit of work following the example of M. Margaret Clark, a pioneer in the multidisciplinary study of socio-cultural gerontology and medical anthropology, and a scholar committed to
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May Book Discussion: Migrants Who Care
The Association of Aging, Gerontology, and the Life Course (AAGE) is hosting a discussion of Fumilayo Showers’ Migrants Who Care: West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care (Rutgers University Press, 2023) on Friday, May 10th, 12-1pm (Eastern, North America) via Zoom. About the book: As the U.S. population ages and as health
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New issue: Anthropology & Aging 45(1)
We are excited to announce that Anthropology & Aging has just published its latest issue 45(1), which you can read here: https://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/anthro-age/issue/view/45. This issue includes two original research articles that deal with perceptions of well-being in Chile and pet robots in dementia care in Denmark; a new conversation in our “Aging Talks” section; a Commentary
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AAGE 2024 Conference
We had an intense time of sharing and learning at the AAGE 2024 conference, held in association with the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The sky was beautiful, the food was delicious, and the company was collegial and interesting. One highlight was a tour of an exhibit of artwork by
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April Book Discussion: Tanja Ahlin’s Calling Family
The Association of Aging, Gerontology, and the Life Course (AAGE) is hosting a discussion of Tanja Ahlin’s Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives (Rutgers University Press, 2023) via Zoom on Friday, April 12, 12-1pm (Eastern North America). About the book: How do digital technologies shape both how people care for
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2024 Jacob Climo Award Winners
Two winners of the Jacob Climo travel award have been selected to receive a small grant for travel to the 2024 AAGE Conference to be held in conjunction with SfAA on March 26-31 in Santa Fe, New Mexico: Jessica Bytautas and Sheridan Conty. Jessica Bytautas is a PhD candidate in the Dalla Lana School of
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Webinar on Images, Aging, and Care: “Ethical Images: On Violence, Trust, and Care” by Roger Canals
Come for a webinar with Roger Canals on “Ethical Images: On Violence, Trust, and Care” on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 10-11:30am Eastern, North America, 16.00-17.30 Central European Time. The Zoom link is here. Meeting ID: 858 3204 6756 Passcode: 832664 About the talk: We do ethical things with images. Images are not just representations, but
March Book Discussion: Andrea Freidus and Dena Shenk’s Voices of Long-Term Care Workers
We are hosting a discussion of Andrea Freidus and Dena Shenk’sVoices of Long-Term Care Workers: Elder Care in the Time of Covid-19 and Beyond (Berghahn, 2024) via Zoom on Friday, March 1, 12-1pm (Eastern North America). About the book: There were many challenges, successes, and concerns in providing long-term care to older adults during the
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