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Marie Jahoda Winter School of Sociology / Doing Age – The Practices of Age and Ageing / November 1-3, 2018

Against the backdrop of demographic ageing, ageing research itself is transforming. While widely used concepts such as models of disengagement and active ageing have been heavily critizied for their “crypto-normativity” (Kolland & Amann, 2014), more recent approaches within a ‘cultural gerontology’ put emphasis on the subjective experience, identity construction and…

Final Conference Cost Action IS1409 – Call for Papers Institute for Lifecourse & Society November 22-23, 2018 Galway, Ireland.

Extending working life is one of the most important policy measures recommended to respond to population ageing, and the sustainability of social protection systems, in particular pension and health care systems. However, the differential impacts of these policies for various social groups and across different social policy regimes have yet…


Call for papers and sessions. Conference of the ESA Research Network (RN01) on Ageing in Europe

CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSIONS 4th Mid-Term Conference of the ESA Research Network (RN01) on Ageing in Europe "AGEING IN EUROPE: AGENCY, CITIZENSHIP AND THE DYNAMICS OF POWER" Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 5 - 7 September 2018 Conference website: http://esaageing-conf.fss.muni.cz Conference email: esaageing.conf@gmail.com  Conference Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/346869709120565 The major…

Announcement of RC11 Emerging Scholar Paper Award for Aging Research (Deadline: January 15th 2018)

The Executive Committee of Research Committee 11 (Sociology of Aging) of the International Sociological Association announces a competition for a conference participation award for best original research paper by an emerging scholar for presentation at the 2018 World Congress of Sociology 15-21 July, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. Emerging scholars include…

Call for Abstracts & Registration: British Society of Gerontology Conference and Emerging Researchers in Ageing (ERA) Pre-Conference

Call for Abstracts & Registration: Conference registration and abstract submission now open!   47th Annual British Society of Gerontology Conference: Ageing in an Unequal World, Shaping Environments for the 21st Century, 4 – 6 July 2018   AND   Emerging Researchers in Ageing (ERA) Pre-Conference Event, 3 – 4 July 2018  …

INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (ISA) JOINT CONFERENCE FOR ISA RC06 (FAMILY) & RC41 (POPULATION) MAY 17-19, 2018

CHANGING DEMOGRAPHY <-> CHANGING FAMILIES Conference website: https://singaporerc0641.nus.edu.sg/index.php Deadline for submission of abstract: November 1, 2017 ISA research committees on Family (RC06) and Population (RC41) will have its first joint meeting in Singapore hosted by the National University of Singapore Centre for Family and Population Research (NUS CFPR). We welcome…


Announcement of RC11 Emerging Scholar Paper Award for Aging Research

Announcement of RC11 Emerging Scholar Paper Award for Aging Research   The Executive Committee of Research Committee 11 (Sociology of Aging) of the International Sociological Association announces a competition for a conference participation award for best original research paper by an emerging scholar for presentation at the 2018 World Congress…

Call for Submissions. ISA World Conference 2018

Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting a paper to the Research Committee on the Sociology of Aging (RC11) for the upcoming World Congress of Sociology, July 15-21, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. Abstracts must be submitted by September 30, 2017 on-line at the following url: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/Symposium448.html Please cut and past the url…