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Aging and the Life Course at the 2023 AAA / CASCA Meetings in Toronto

Leave a Comment / Awards, Conference, News, students / By ccoe

Continuing a strong trend over the past five years there were a wider range of sessions, panels and events related to aging and the life course, within this AAA conference, than at any previous meetings. This included scholars from not only North American, but Europe, Asia and Australia – to view the list see: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jav9nPr80sNWNsgLq9ij8svwRXNkrdvj/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106655931765856558164&rtpof=true&sd=true …

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Annual Book Auction to support the Jacob Climo travel award

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Please participate in the annual, virtual book auction to raise funds for the Jacob Climo travel award, to support graduate student travel to the AAGE 2024 conference: https://www.32auctions.com/aagebookauction2023

Meet the 2023 Margaret Clark award winners

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The Margaret Clark 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 mentoring younger colleagues. Since 1993, this award has sought to recognize and uplift the contributions of the next generation of scholars …

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AAGE guide to the 2023 AAA/CASCA meetings

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As usual we are having an interlocutor special event, celebration of new books/research on Friday 12:15, Metro Toronto Convention Centre 709, where Jay Sokolovsky and Maria Cattell interview members of the award winning, “Resemblage Project: Remixing Scarborough’s Stories of Aging”, set in Toronto; Business meeting Saturday 12:15 and our IG Invited Session – “Transitions in …

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2023 AAGE Executive Committee Elections

Leave a Comment / News / By Aaron Seaman

Meet the candidates running for AAGE Executive Committee positions, then cast your vote (once only!) before Friday, November 3, 2023! To cast your vote, use the link that has been sent through the AAGE listserv. Candidates for President-Elect Felicity Aulino (unopposed) My name is Felicity Aulino and I am a Five-College Associate Professor based …

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November book discussion: Anita Hannig’s The Day I Die

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Our next book discussion will be on Anita Hannig’s The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America (Sourcebooks, 2022) on Friday, November 10, 12-1pm (Eastern, North America). About the book: Lyrical and lucid, sensitive but never sentimental, The Day I Die tackles one of the most urgent social issues of our …

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AAGE Seeking Nominations for Leadership Positions

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AAGE is seeking nominations for four leadership positions, to be announced in late 2023. Leadership service is an excellent way to contribute to and shape the vision of the AAGE community! Any member of AAGE can nominate another member or self-nominate. Please take a moment to do so, by filling out this (Self-) Nomination Form. Target date for nominations: Friday, October 13, 2023 Elections: …

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Current issue of AAGE’s journal!

Leave a Comment / News / By Su Schaer

All of the articles in the latest issue of Anthropology & Aging (vol 44 no 2) are now available free to download! This Special Issue highlights original research articles generated from the five-year, multi-country project, the Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Aging (ASSA), based at University College London and led by Professor Daniel Miller. Through five compelling articles (and an …

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AAGE 2024 Conference: Enchantment and Transformation

Leave a Comment / News / By Su Schaer

AAGE will be holding its biennial conference in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) at the El Dorado Hotel & Spa in Santa Fe, NM on March 26-30, 2024. We are adopting the theme of SfAA’s meeting—“Enchantment and Transformation”—and adapting it to our concerns with aging, gerontology, and the …

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October Book Discussion: Martins Sampaio’s Migration, Diversity, and Inequality in Later Life

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Our next book discussion will be on Dora Martins Sampaio’s book Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life: Ageing at a Crossroads (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) on Friday, October 13, 12-1pm (Eastern, North America). About the book: This book is the first comprehensive ethnographic study of the diversity of living and ageing experiences of three groups of older migrants …

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New Graduate Student Travel Award to AAA meetings for research on the Anthropology of Aging and the Life course

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The Aging and the Life Course Interest Group of the American Anthropological Association invites applications for the first annual Christine Fry Graduate Student Travel Award. The awardee will receive $500 to be applied toward travel to the 2023 AAA/CASCA meetings in Toronto, and will be honored at the Interest Group business meeting during the conference. …

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September Book Discussion: Chinese Senior Migrants and the Globalization of Retirement

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The Association of Aging, Gerontology, and the Life Course (AAGE) is hosting a discussion on Zoom of Nicole DeJong Newendorp’s Chinese Senior Migrants and the Globalization of Retirement (Stanford University Press, 2020) on Friday, September 8, 2023, 12-1pm (Eastern, North America) via Zoom. About the book: The 21st century has seen growing numbers of seniors turning to migration …

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