The 2024 Jacob Climo Award supports student costs up to $500 to present their work at the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology and the Life Course (AAGE) joint meeting with the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) to be held in Sante Fe, New Mexico from March 26 to March 30, 2024. The award honors the scholarship […]
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We are excited to announce that Anthropology & Aging Vol. 44, No. 3 is now available online! https://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/anthro-age/issue/view/44 This final issue of 2023 includes three original research articles: the cover story was written by the winner of the 2022 Margaret Clark Award, and it offers a creative reconfiguration of the term ‘non-disclosure’ to portray the ambivalent lived experiences following an Alzheimer’s diagnosis
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Come for the inaugural webinar on images, aging, and care with Inge Daniels on Thursday, January 25, 2024, 12-1:30pm (Eastern, North America). AAGE is co-sponsoring a series of events on this theme throughout 2024. Inge Daniels’ film “She Waves at Me” explores what it feels like to be an aging body in an aging housing
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The Association of Aging, Gerontology, and the Life Course (AAGE) is hosting a discussion of Diete Humblet’s The Older Prisoner (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) on Friday, January 12, 2024, 12-1pm (Eastern, North America) via Zoom. About the book: This book critically explores the world of older prisoners to provide a more nuanced understanding of imprisonment at
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The Association of Aging, Gerontology, and the Life Course (AAGE) is hosting a discussion of Amanda Grenier’s Late-Life Homelessness: Experiences of Disadvantage and Unequal Aging (McGill-Queens University Press, 2022) on Friday, December 8, 12-1pm (Eastern, North America). About the book: Around the world and across a range of contexts, homelessness among older people is on
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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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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
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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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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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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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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 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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