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The Cesagene Seminar Series
Following the success of the first event, we are pleased to announce the second instalment of the Cesagene Seminar Series of 2015. This free event will take place on Wednesday 27th May 2-3pm in Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, in the Committee Rooms of the Glamorgan Building. We are grateful to be joined by two exemplary guest speakers:
Dr. Nick Lee, Director of Research, Centre for Education Studies, Warwick
ELSA Director, Warwick Centre for Synthetic Biology
'Navigating the Biosocial'
Reliable knowledge about life processes that inform people's growth and development is on the increase. Some argue that certain human life processes are becoming more open to deliberate interventions that can be relied upon to meet their goals. At a larger scale, it is clear that human lifestyles have an impact on ecological and meteorological systems in ways that exceed and confound human intention and preference. Given these contexts, social scientific practice needs to change and is changing.
I will present conceptual and methodological developments connected to the sociology of childhood that seek to contribute to this change. These include the concept of 'biosocial events', 'emergent biosocial phenomena' and a research methodology that attends to three 'multiplicities' of life, voice and resource. I will invite discussion about whether and how these approaches can fruitfully connect with current practice and debate around epigenetics.
Professor Joanna Latimer, Cardiff University
'Repelling neoliberal world-making: ageing, dementia and irresponse-ability'
In this paper I offer a perspective on body-world relations and care in the context of ageing, especially with regards to dementia. The paper represents a chapter in my new book, "At the Limits if Life", in which I am re-visioning ways to 'be alongside' and dwell with ageing and being old. This re-visioning does not preclude finding ways to cure, prevent or alleviate those diseases that seem to be particularly associated with growing older, but puts them under erasure to emphasise the need to resist waging a war on ageing, especially on dementia, and instead understand how ageing affects and threatens the modes of ordering that underpin contemporary capitalism. Specifically, I consider why contemporary late modern societies care so much about and yet fear growing old, perhaps even more than death, but also find it so hard to care about and look after the aged, including making ageing and the aged targets to be managed. Here, I suggest that something may occur in which dementia and even becoming old involves a form of repel-lance - what elsewhere I have called irresponse-ability - those moments and occasions in which the older person seems to be refusing and repelling others and the worlds they make together. In this inversion of the usual ways of theorizing the relation between the aged and the world, in which it is thought that it is the older person who becomes monstrous and repellent, I argue it is the older person, for example with dementia, who is repelled, and the environment in which they find themselves that can become monstrous. I then go on to re-vision ageing and emphasise the importance of being alongside the aged as a new perspective on care and late modern capitalism that 'others' those who are no longer response-able.
All are welcome to attend and refreshments (tea, coffee and welsh cakes) will be provided.
For more information contact Heather Strange ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) or Chris Goldsworthy ([log in to unmask]).
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