AAGE is pleased to announce its annual call for outstanding graduate and undergraduate student papers to compete for the 2022 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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Welcome to Cati Coe, AAGE’s New President-Elect!
We are excited to welcome Cati Coe as AAGE’s President-Elect! She is currently Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, Camden, and in July 2022, she will be assuming a new position at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Ontario. She has come to the study of aging through her research on transnational families from Ghana, initially focused […]
Welcome to Erika Carrillo, AAGE’s New Secretary!
Please join us in welcoming Erika Carrillo as AAGE’s new Secretary! Erika is a doctoral candidate at Purdue University where she is pursuing her dual title in Anthropology and Gerontology. Her dissertation research is in San Francisco, California, among aging Latinos and their families. The project examines the everyday ethics and moral decision making involved […]
AGENET 2021 AVA Award and Slow Conference
AGENET, the AAGE sister organization in the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) will be wrapping up its Slow Conference (October-November) with a special event featuring the AVA Award Inaugural Keynote by Professor Paolo Favero (University of Antwerp/VANEASA). The announcement of the winner of the first ever AVA Award for Best Visual Ethnographic Material Addressing […]
AAA Interest Group/AAGE Annual Business Meeting and Virtual Auction
ANNUAL OPEN VIRTUAL BUSINESS MEETING OF THE AAA AGING AND THE LIFE COURSE INTEREST GROUP IN ASSOCIATION WITH AAGE Please join us at the annual open virtual business meeting of the Aging and the Life Course interest group on November 9th from Noon-2pm EDT in association with AAGE. Mark it on your calendars, and please click […]
AAGE 2021 Elections! Meet the Candidates, and VOTE by Nov 1
AAGE Members, please read about our fabulous candidates for President-Elect, Secretary, and Board of Directors, then cast your vote by November 1! Visit this page for candidate bios and a link to the ballot. AAGE 2021 Elections
Surviving COVID-19 in Peru
By Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Survival. Perhaps the word carries more weight today than ever. We are all engaged in this exercise of collective survival. Many of us have found ourselves forced to become accustomed to the unwelcome novelty of the burden of extreme uncertainty. And it is only now that […]
Falling off the cliff: Mythical sacrifice mirrored in Sweden’s COVID-19 response
By Carolina Johnson, Oberlin College Ättestupa is the Swedish word given to a number of steep cliffs. The myth of the ättestupa holds that in prehistoric Nordic times, older community members would throw themselves off a precipice for the sake of the greater good during famines or crises. The harrowing myth of ritual sacrifice has […]
Meet the 2020 AAGE Margaret Clark Award Co-Winners
What do we do when the two top papers both excel in originality, rigor and outstanding writing? We award them both! The co-winners of the 2020 Margaret Clark Award for best student paper were Francesco Diodati of the University Milano Biccoca and Yan Zhang of Case Western University. Our congratulations to both of you! AAGE’s […]
AAGE Elections – Call for nominations!
Dear AAGE folks, Like most scholarly organizations, AAGE continues to thrive and grow thanks to members’ willingness to step forward and contribute their energies and ideas. One key way to do so is through leadership service. Serving on the Board is a great way to help shape the future of research in anthropology and aging […]