Perceptions of Aging and Old Age: Thresholds and Life-Cycles
Conference
- Event open to the public without registration
- Start: Mar 28, 2023 09:15 AM (Local Time Germany)
- End: Mar 29, 2023 05:30 PM
- Speaker: Conference
- Location: March 28th: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo https://vimeo.com/event/2092675) and March 29th: The Norwegian Institute in Rome, Viale Trenta Aprile 33, 00153 Roma (Online via ZOOM)
- Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
Reflections on aging in the arts, medical texts, historical sources and literature reveal concepts of age, societal expectations, and stereotypical notions which determine how individuals approach late life, but also how these cultural assumptions of age-appropriate behavior can be subverted, changed, and expanded. By looking at socio-biological thresholds and analyzing how fluctuating models of the stages of human life have circulated in different time periods, our goal is to assess recurring patterns and continuities, new forms of expression and changes as well as complexities that provide a framework through which cultural constructions of age(ing) may be analyzed and understood. Thus the conference seeks to enrich the ongoing discussion on age and aging with new perspectives.
For partecipation online please follow on
March 28 : https://vimeo.com/event/2092675
March 29: https://uio.zoom.us/j/65576716260
PERCEPTIONS OF AGING AND OLD AGE: THRESHOLDS AND LIFE-CYCLES
Tuesday, 2023, March 28 – Bibliotheca Hertziana
09:15 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Welcome: Tanja
Michalsky, Director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana
Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, University of
Duesseldorf
Laura Cayrol-Bernardo, University of
Bergen
SECTION 1
Moderator:
Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, University of Duesseldorf
INTERVENTIONS
Kristin B. Aavitsland, The Norwegian
Institute in Rome
Life Turning on Death: The Life Cycle in Late Medieval
and Early Modern Visual Rhetoric
Camille Brouzes, University of Rouen
The Ages of Man in Late Medieval French Poetry: a
Self-Portrait Technique?
11:00 Pause
11:30 SECTION 2
Moderator:
Giovanna Pinna, University of Molise
INTERVENTIONS
Svetlana Luchitskaia, Academy of Science,
Moscow
‘Li darriens tens et la fin de l’aage’: Old Age as
Perceived by a Crusader Knight (Philippe of Novara’s Views on Age and Aging)
Christian Neumann, German Historical
Institute in Rome
Old Age and the English Kings: Thresholds,
Transitions, and Turning Points (12–14th Centuries)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 SECTION 3
Moderator:
Ulla Kriebernegg, University of Graz
INTERVENTIONS
Laura Cayrol-Bernardo, University of
Bergen
Understanding Sex Difference in Later Life: «
Menopause » as a Threshold in Medieval Thought (12th-15th c:)
Daniel Schäfer, University of
Cologne
Medical Invention of the Infertile Old Man? Reflections
on the Early Modern Discussion of Male Old-Age Sterility and Impotence
15:30 Pause
16:00 Moderator: Margery Vibe Skagen, University of Bergen
INTERVENTION
Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, University of
Duesseldorf
Diagrammatic Thinking and The Division of Life into
Stages of Age
Wednesday, 2023, March 29 – The
Norwegian Institute in Rome
Viale Trenta Aprile 33, 00153 Roma
09:15 WELCOME
Kristin B. Aavitsland, Director of The
Norwegian Institute in Rome
SECTION 4
Moderator:
Daniel Schäfer, University of Cologne
INTERVENTIONS
Jaco Zuijderduijn, University of Lund
The Three
Myths of Old Age – and Why Historians Should Care
Giovanna
Pinna, University of
Molise
On Aging and Agency: Nussbaum vs. de Beauvoir
11:00 Pause
11:30
SECTION 5
Moderator:
Laura Cayrol-Bernardo, University of Bergen
INTERVENTIONS
Margery Vibe Skagen, University of
Bergen
Outsiders on the Threshold to Eternity:
Representations of Old Age in 19th century French Poetry
María Soledad Marambio Castro,
University of Bergen
Anne Pedersdotter: a Witch for the Ages
13:00 Lunch
14:30 SECTION
6
Moderator:
Jill Halstead, University of Bergen
INTERVENTIONS
Anita Wohlmann, University of
Southern Denmark
Studying Old Age in Literary Texts: Critique and
Postcritique
Ulla Kriebernegg, University of Graz
“I fear I am not in my perfect mind”: Perceptions of
Aging and Vulnerability in 21st Century Productions of Shakespeare’s “King
Lear”
16:00 Pause
16:30 INTERVENTION
Moderator:
Kristin B: Aavitsland, The Norwegian Institute in Rome
17:15
Jill Halstead, University of Bergen
Sounding Age: Music and the Social Acoustics of the
Life Cycle
CLOSURE
Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, University of
Duesseldorf
Laura Cayrol-Bernardo, University of
Bergen
For partecipation online please follow on
March 28 : https://vimeo.com/event/2092675
March 29: https://uio.zoom.us/j/65576716260
Scientific Organization: Prof. Dr. Andrea von Hülsen-Esch (Krautheimer-fellow, University of Duesseldorf, Germany) and Dr. Laura Cayrol-Bernardo (University of Bergen, Norway)