Workshops

The “Coming of Age”: Cultural Construction of Age(ing)

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Program

Thursday, September 7, 2006


14:00 Welcome
Wilhelm Staudacher, General Secretary of Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation
(tbc.);
Peter Claussen, Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of the United States of America;
Dr. Patrick Hart, Deputy Director of the British Council Germany


Cultural Construction of Age and Ageing

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kunow, University of Potsdam

14:15 – 14:45 “Aged by Culture: Cultural Urgencies”
Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Ph.D., Brandeis University

14:45 – 15:15 “Aging and its Discontents: Women, Bodies, Generations”
Prof. Kathleen Woodward, Ph.D., University of Washington

15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 – 16:15 “Perceptions of Ageing”
Age Concern England

16:15 – 16:45 “Ageing and Gender”
Prof. Sara Arber, University of Surrey

Moderation: Dr. Heike Hartung, University of Greifswald

16:45 – 18:00 Panel on “Personal vs. Cultural Scripts of Ageing”
Prof. Sara Arber
Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Ph.D.
Prof. Kathleen Woodward, Ph.D.
Prof. Rüdiger Kunow

18:00 – 19:00 Reception

19:00 – 19:45 Slide Show “Visualizing Age: Long Married Couples”
Robert Fass, Photographer, New York (More)

19:45 – 20:30 Reading from “Uncle Rudolf” (2002)
Paul Bailey

Friday, September 8, 2006


Learning and Unlearning to grow old – “The Art of Meaningful Ageing”

Moderation: NN

10:00 – 10:45 “Europe’s Cultural History of Old Age and the Old’s Place in
Society”
Prof. Pat Thane, Ph.D., Institute of Historical Research,
London

10:45 – 11:30 “The Healing Effects of Life Stories”
Kate de Medeiros, Ph.D., Copper Ridge Institute, Maryland

11:30 – 12:00 Discussion with Pat Thane and Kate de Medeiros

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break


Visions of an Ageing Society

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Michael Albus, University of Frankfurt/Main (tbc.)

13:30 – 14:15 „The Ageing Society and the Myth of Generational Justice“
Dr. Jutta Hoppe, Foundation for the Rights of Future
Generations (SRzG)

14:15 – 15:30 Panel on “Visions of Ageing Societies”
Prof. Dr. Gertrud Backes, University of Kassel
Philipp Missfelder MdB
Prof. Pat Thane, Ph.D.
Kate de Medeiros, Ph.D.
Dr. Jutta Hoppe

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Exhibition: “Long Married Couples”, Photographs by Robert Fass, New York (More)

Reading: Paul Bailey from “Uncle Rudolf” (2002)

Program: Dr. Barbara von Bechtolsheim, Embassy of the United States of
America
Dr. Heike Hartung, University of Greifswald
Guido Jansen, British Council Germany
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kunow, University of Potsdam
Dr. Andrea M. Schneider, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation

Organisation: Detha Degenhardt, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation