Russ Castronovo is Tom Paine Professor of English and Dorothy Draheim Professor of American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, where he is also Affiliate Faculty Member of the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture.
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We are all, as Margaret Morganroth Gulotte has famously written, “aged by culture.” What this implies is that the meaning ascribed to age is not so much biological, as it is cultural. What does this mean, however, for specific communities within a given culture? What does it mean to speak, for instance, of concepts such as “black aging,” “queer aging,” or “female aging”? And what does all this mean in a transnational context? This workshop seeks to link aging studies on the one hand and fields such as Black Studies, Queer Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Gender Studies on the other.
At the same time, it asks whether culturalist notions of aging have jettisoned the biological, material dimension of aging altogether or whether there is after all a way in which “culture” and “biology” can be fruitfully linked. Moreover, recent research, both in the life sciences and in forms of life writing (such as the boom of centenarians’ autobiographies) may have given rise to a celebration, perhaps even fetishization, of extreme longevity. To what extent has the emphasis on both longevity and “successful aging” tended to pit aging studies against, for instance, disability studies? What other narratives of old age need to be told, which may serve to sabotage mainstream representations of what it means to be old?
The symposium is organized by Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee and Julia Velten, M.A. for the DFG-funded research project “Die Fabrikation der Hundertjährigen,” which is part of the DFG Research Group 1939 “Un/Doing Differences – Praktiken der Humandifferenzierung.”
On Nov 22, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl will give the annual Obama Lecture and the Obama Institute’s Executive Board members will award the Obama Dissertation Prize to Argelia Segovia Liga from Missouri State U, USA, who will also give a short talk on her thesis.
Furthermore, the Obama Institute will award the Galinsky Prize to outstanding student papers in the field of Early American Studies.
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The ERASMUS Exchange Lecturer Dr. Justyna Fruzinska (University of Lodz, Poland) will give four lectures in various seminars on Oct 23 and 24. Everyone is welcome!
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018
10 a.m.-12 noon, 00-025 SR 03 (BKM)
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
6-8 p.m., P 15 (Philosophicum)
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
12 noon-2 p.m., P 102 (Philosophicum)
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
4-6 p.m., P 103 (Philosophicum)
Dr. Ying WANG is a Research Fellow, Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at the Institute of Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Her main field of research is Life Writing Studies as well as Literary and Cultural Studies. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese Society for Aesthetics and was a visiting scholar and visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge. She has published research papers in The Medieval History Journal and the Global Journal of Human Social Science. She is co-author of the English monograph Fashioning the Elusive Self: Autobiography in China and the West (Cambridge: Bringfield’s Head Press, 2015).
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