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SUMMARY:The Graz International Summer School Seggau
DESCRIPTION:June 30 – July 13\, 2019 – Seggau Castle | Leibnitz | Austria \nThe Graz International Summer School Seggau is designed for internationally oriented\, highly motivated students from all disciplines\, who wish to deepen their understanding of current European and international affairs by studying and discussing global developments and challenges within the context of transformation processes and demographic change reflecting aspects of individual\, social\, political\, religious\, cultural\, literary\, regional\, economic\, cohort and national identities. \nThis year\, as part of the school’s curriculum\, the full extent of which can be found HERE\, ACT Project’s principal researcher Kim Sawchuk will be teaching a Seminar on Ageing\, Communication\, and Technologies: \n“(Re)Configuring Age and Ageing: Critical Mediations in Critical Times” \n“Concepts are never simply descriptive; they are also programmatic and normative” (Bal\, 2002\, 29). Their definition should not leave us indifferent but rather “implicate [us] and impose taking a stand” (Stengers\, 1987\, 11). \nThis seminar considers age and ageing as key concepts whose definitions affect how\, in today’s networked societies marked by the proliferation of digitally mediated communications often deemed the purview of the young\, issues that pertain to the social exclusion/inclusion of an increasingly older population and the development of ethical intergenerational relations are articulated in public discourses and policies. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach\, we will draw upon the insights of critical ageing studies scholars in Europe and the Americas to: a) examine the predominance of “decline narratives” associated with ageing; b) to draw the contours of ageism and what we might call “digital ageism”; and c) to question the ethical and political implications of notions of “active ageing” and “wellness” in the context of growing concerns about age-related decline\, including cognitive\, memory and physical decline. We will also draw upon ethnographies with older adults as well as theoretical work on media\, mediation and mediatisation to reflect on the possibilities of transgressing mainstream definitions of age and ageing\, and the norms and expectations that they contribute to establish and legitimize. We will discuss the contrasted definitions of ageing proposed by and performed in different cultures of ageing to shift our perspective on what concepts of age and ageing can do\, the relevant questions they lead us to ask\, and the stands they invite us to take in the here and now. \nDuring the second week\, we bring theoretical and critical questions about age and ageing in conversation with the hands-on production of digital “media capsules”. Participants are taught sound recording\, photography and audio-visual editing skills\, as well as interview techniques. We ask the students to not only create media capsules that engage with conceptions of age and ageing\, but to think about the import of creative and collaborative approaches to research. We explore how low-cost\, intergenerational and co-creative media production practices can be thought of as a way of challenging narrow and rigid definitions of later life\, and the purported incommensurability of old age and digital technologies.
URL:https://actproject.ca/event/the-graz-international-summer-school-seggau/
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SUMMARY:Sexism\, ageism and 'late style': Popular music and older women performers
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to attend a public keynote by Prof. Ros Jennings\, from the University of Gloucestershire\, where she will question the dominant ageist discourses in the West and their impact on the late style identities and performance strategies of older women popular music stars. \nThe research discussed will focus on performers such as Mavis Staples\, Joan Baez\, Marianne Faithfull and Kate Bush; female popular music performers who have established long and notable careers. \nThe analysis presented will examine the ways that the cultural forces of ageism and sexism are entwined with dominant understandings of race\, class and nation; working to construct older female popular music performers in particular and often\, negative ways. \n9.30 to 11am\nFB.620\nFaubourg Building\n1250 Guy St\, Montreal\nConcordia University
URL:https://actproject.ca/event/sexism-ageism-and-late-style-popular-music-and-older-women-performers/
LOCATION:Concordia University
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