The Politics of Old Age: Old People and Ageing in British and European History (Middle Ages to the Present)

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The Politics of Old Age: Old People and Ageing in British and European History (Middle Ages to the Present)

Veranstalter
Frédérique Lachaud, Sorbonne Université Lettres, Paris; Wencke Meteling, Universität Marburg/Catholic University of America, Washington DC; Jenny Pleinen, German Historical Institute London (Conference of the German Association for British Studies (Arbeitskreis Großbritannien-Forschung, AGF) in cooperation with the German Historical Institute London and Sorbonne Université Lettres, Paris)
Ausrichter
Conference of the German Association for British Studies (Arbeitskreis Großbritannien-Forschung, AGF) in cooperation with the German Historical Institute London and Sorbonne Université Lettres, Paris
Veranstaltungsort
virtually via Zoom
PLZ
10117
Ort
Berlin
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
07.05.2021 - 08.05.2021
Deadline
04.05.2021
Website
http://www.agf-britishstudies.de/en/news-english/
Von
Wencke Meteling, Seminar für Neuere Geschichte, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Originally planned for last May, the conference will now take place virtually via Zoom.
Examining the discourses and realities of old age, ageing, and politics over a long period, the conference brings together scholars of diverse disciplinary backgrounds from the UK, Europe, and the U.S. to discuss this major topic.

The Politics of Old Age: Old People and Ageing in British and European History (Middle Ages to the Present)

The conference was meant to take place at the Centre for British Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin in May 2020. Due to the ongoing covid-19 crisis the conveners decided to hold it virtually via Zoom.

The connection between old age and civil society raises complex debates. In most Western societies ageing has become a major social and political issue involving cost and care, inter-generational responsibilities, the place of the elderly in the work place, or continued access to politics and political information. The importance of political activism of the elderly suggests however that far from being excluded from the political sphere, the older part of populations may weigh significantly in British and European politics.

These contrasting views of the connection between old age and politics call for a historical approach of questions surrounding ageing and old age. Examining the discourses and realities of old age and politics over a long period, the conference brings together scholars of diverse disciplinary backgrounds from the UK, Europe, and the U.S. to produce a more nuanced view of this theme.

Programm

Friday 7 May 2021

15:00–15:15 Welcome & Opening Remarks

15:15–16:15 Keynote Lecture with Q&A
Patricia Thane, King’s College London
‘Old age and the intergenerational debate’

16:30–18:00
Session I:
Amelia Jennie Kennedy, Yale University
‘Time to work or time to retire? Changing attitudes toward older Cistercian abbots in the 13th century’

Elisa Mantienne, Université de Lorraine
‘Elderly abbots in English benedictine monasteries in the 14th and 15th centuries’

Benedikt Brunner, Leibniz-Institute for European History
‘Dying in good company: Social and cultural norms regarding old people in British and German funeral sermons of the 17th and early 18th century’

Saturday 8 May 2021

15:00 – 16:00
Session II:
Christian Neumann, German Historical Institute Rome
‘Old Age and the Republic of Venice’

Nataša Henig Miščič, Institute of Contemporary history, Ljubljana
‘Carnolian savings bank and the politics of Old Age in the late 19th and early 20th centuries’

16:15-17:15
Session III:
Alissa Klots, University of Pittsburgh
‘Soviet retirees as a political community‘

Benjamin Glöckler, Universität Freiburg
‘Images of ageing in divided Germany during the late 1960s and 1970s. Comparing two magazines of East and West German welfare organizations’

Kontakt

registration for each day via eventbrite:

May 7: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/150970878963

May 8: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/150971472739

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