Through the auspices of the AAA Interest Group (IG) on Aging and the Life Course – the interests of AAGE were well represented in the 2022 Meetings. Besides the many sessions our members organized and participated in, this included: An invited session “Caring for Varied Aging Populations in Senior Housings and Facilities as Cultural […]
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AAGE at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (Nov 17-21, 2021), Baltimore
The Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association begins this week (17th-21st November).The hybrid format includes asynchronous, ‘view-on-demand’ library of podcasts and videos, synchronous ‘virtual sessions’, live broadcast sessions from Baltimore, and non-broadcast in-person events for attendees. A little of something for everyone? AAGE members are, as usual, well represtented at the conference, but not […]
Don’t miss AALCIG and AAGE events at #AAA2017, Washington D.C.
AAGE, with its partner orgaization the Anthropology of Aging and the Life Course Interest Group (AALCIG) will once again be holding two joint events at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anthropology in Washington D.C. this year. The meeting will be held at the Wardman Marriot Hotel, November 28- December 3, and the […]
AAGE guide to the meetings: American Anthropological Association, Dec 3-7, 2014
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]