Ageing, Body and Society
Study Group
Co-Convenors: Dr Wendy Martin (Brunel University)
and Professor Julia Twigg (University of Kent)
You are warmly invited to the 3rd Annual Conference
of the Ageing, Body and Society study group. We are delighted that the
British Library, St Pancras, London, are our co-hosts for this conference, that
enables us to present our research in a very special, prestigious and engaging
venue, close to the centre of the London.
Futures of Ageing: Science,
Technology and the Body
A One Day Conference:
Monday 19th July 2010
Keynote Address: How Old is
Your Brain?: Neuroculture, Active Ageing and Cognitive Decline
Professor Simon Williams (Warwick University, UK)
Plenary Panel: Technogenarians:
Studying Health and Illness through an Aging, Science, and Technology Lens.
Participants
include: Dr Kelly Joyce (College of William and Mary, USA); Dr Meika Loe
(Colgate University, USA); Professor Barb Marshall (Trent University, Canada);
Louis Neven (University of Twente);
Katie
Brittain (Newcastle University,
UK)
Call for Abstracts and
Invitation to Delegates
Science and technologies are becoming increasingly
significant to people’s experiences of growing older; innovations and
developments that are likely to influence the context, nature, experiences and
understandings of ageing and embodiment. This one day conference seeks to bring
together researchers, academics and practitioners whose work explores and
highlights the diverse ways in which science and technologies interconnect with
and influence our ageing bodies. We encourage researchers to share their
perspectives on science, technologies and ageing bodies and welcome abstracts on
different theoretical and methodological approaches, different disciplines,
emergent ideas, work in progress, practitioner perspectives, and empirical
findings.
We invite abstracts for presentations that will be
15 - 20 minutes in length. When submitting your abstract please use the
BSA abstract form on our conference website www.britsoc.co.uk/events/ageing.
Please provide the following information: title of your presentation; the
author, organisation and e-mail address of presenter/s; and a summary of the
proposed presentation using a maximum of 250 words. Please submit your
abstract to the BSA conference office at [log in to unmask] by Friday
23rd April. 2010.
We invite delegates to participate in this exciting
area of study and if you wish to attend or hear more about the conference,
please contact the BSA conference office at [log in to unmask]
Abstract deadline: Friday 23rd April, 2010
We also invite delegates to join us for this
exciting one day conference, and registration will be open by the end of
February 2010 on our conference website: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/ageing
Kind regards,
Jenny Cairns
Events Coordinator
The British Sociological Association
Telephone: +44 (0)191 383 0839
Facsimile: +44 (0)191 383 0782
BSA Food Study
Group 2nd Conference: Food, Society and Public Health
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BSA Medical Sociology Group Annual
Conference
Wednesday 1st – 3rd September 2010. University of
Durham
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BSA Work, Employment and Society
Conference
Monday 6th – 9th September 2010. University of
Brighton
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BSA Ageing, Body and Society Study Group 3rd
Conference: Futures of Ageing: Science, Technology and The Body
Monday 19th July 2010. The British Library
Conference Centre, London
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