Announcements - Calls for Papers

CfP BSG 2019 48th Annual Conference

Conference/Meeting - BSG 2019 48th Annual ConferenceDate - July 10, 2018Deadline - January 24, 2019Our Conference theme aligns to that aspiration: Resilience and Living Well in Local Communities . It builds on the BSG 2018 conference theme: ageing in an unequal world, focusing in on local communities. Research into ageing is a priority for the University of Liverpool and it has a multi-disciplinary approach…

CfP Thinking Ageing and Older Age

Conference/Meeting - Thinking Ageing and Older Age MICRA PhD and Early Career ConferenceDate - June 13, 2019Deadline - April 01, 2019With an ageing global population, research about ageing and older people is increasingly important. This one day conference aims to showcase the range of research among postgraduate and early career researchers from across disciplines taking ageing as its focus. We welcome researchers interested in and working on ageing and older…

CfP: Media Discourses on Inequalities in Old-Age Care

Conference/Meeting - Special Issue in the Journal of Ageing and Later Life (IJAL)Deadline - November 01, 2018Guest Edited by EVA SOOM AMMANN (Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland) Call for contributions for an upcoming special issue in the Journal of Ageing and Later Life (IJAL): MEDIA DISCOURSES ON INEQUALITIES IN OLD-AGE CARE Guest Edited by EVA SOOM AMMANN (Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland) in collaboration with…

CfP: Perspectives and Theories of Social Innovation for Ageing Population

Deadline - June 27, 2018 / 27/06/2018In collaboration with the journals Frontiers in Sociology & Frontiers in Public Health (www.frontiersin.org) we are bringing together a selected group of international experts to contribute to an open-access article collection on: "Perspectives and Theories of Social Innovation for Ageing Population"   Guest Editors: Andrzej Klimczuk, Warsaw School of Economics,…

CfP ESPAnet Poland Conference – Stream: Social Innovation and Technological Innovation in Ageing Policies in the European Union

Conference/Meeting - ESPAnet Poland Conference 2017Date - September 25, 2017Deadline - May 15, 2017 / 27/06/2018The 4th International Conference ESPAnet-Poland Wroclaw, 25-27 September 2017 The theme of the conference is “Social Policy: Controversies and Paradoxes”. The conference is organized by Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the Wroclaw University of Economics, as well as the Polish Social Policy Association.   Stream 19: “Social Innovation…

CfP to Volume: “Contemporary Challenges of Ageing Policy in the Central and Eastern European Countries”

CALL FOR PAPERS “Czech-Polish-Slovak Studies in Andragogy and Social Gerontology” series (https://gerontolodzy.wordpress.com) Volume: “Contemporary Challenges of Ageing Policy in the Central and Eastern European Countries” Language: English   Editors: Andrzej Klimczuk, Ph.D. Candidate (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland) Łukasz Tomczyk, Ph.D. (Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland)   Volume Description: A European Year…

Call for abstracts – PopFest 2016: the 24th Annual Population Postgraduate Conference

Conference/Meeting - PopFest 2016Date - July 04, 2016Deadline - March 31, 2016 / 27/06/2018opFest is an annual Population Studies conference for postgraduate students organised by fellow postgraduates. It provides an excellent opportunity to bring together researchers from various Social Science disciplines such as Demography, Human Geography, Urban and Landscape Planning, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Social Statistics, Politics and other related fields. PopFest is organised…

BSA Ageing, Body and Society Study Group 7th Annual Conference: Ageing and Culture

Conference/Meeting - BSA Ageing, Body and Society Study Group 7th Annual Conference: Ageing and Culture; University of ManchesterDate - February 26, 2016Deadline - December 15, 2015 / 12 midnightThis year the Ageing, Body and Society study group is holding its annual day conference in Manchester, in collaboration with MICRA, University of Manchester. The theme of the day is Ageing and Culture. We will also be celebrating the publication of The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology: https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415631143   We…

European Society on Family Relations – Call for symposia and papers

Conference/Meeting - 8th conference of the European Society on Family Relations (ESFR) Date - August 31, 2016Deadline - December 31, 2015 / 12 midnight8th Congress of the European Society on Family Relations (ESFR) Changing Family Relations – Gender and Generations August 31 - September 3, 2016, TU Dortmund University, Germany Megatrends like globalization, increasing migration, the neo-liberal transformation of labor, individualization and pluralization as well as demographic ageing profoundly influence families today. The…