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