Events
Forthcoming Events
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Past Events
International Conversations in Ageing and Technology: Critical Explorations of Ageing Bodies and Socio-Gerontechnology - Symposium Two: Ageing bodies, datafication and algorithms
Co-hosted with the Socio-Gerontechnology Network
Online
International Conversations in Ageing and Technology: Critical Explorations of Ageing Bodies and Socio-Gerontechnology - Symposium One: Ageing bodies, materiality, identity and everyday life
Co-hosted with the Socio-Gerontechnology Network
Online
University of Kent, UK
BSA Ageing, Body and Society Study Group 7th Annual Conference: Ageing and Culture
Manchester University, UK
(a)Dressing the Ageing Demographic: A One-day Symposium Exploring Ageing and Dress - supported by the Ageing, Body and Society Study Group
Royal College of Art, London, UK
6 July 2012
BSA Ageing, Body and Society Study Group Conference:‘Ageing, Body And Society: Critical Perspectives, Future Challenges’
The British Library Conference Centre, London, UK
6 September 2011
BSA Ageing, Body and Society Study Group Conference: Body Work in Health and Social Care
The British Library Conference Centre, London, UK
19 July 2010
3rd Annual One Day Conference: 'Futures of Ageing: Science, Technology and the Body'
The British Library Conference Centre, London, UK
Presentations from the conference:
- Valerie Bissland - Older adults' preferred learning and communication styles and how these fit with recent neuroscience insights into adult learning
- Katie Brittain - Technologies of Place for those Living with Dementia
- Sophia Efstathiou - Could Ageing Brains Be Wiser? Wisdom, Heuristics and Ageing
- David Frochlich - A Custom Computer for Older People
- Louis Neven - Robots and Elder Test Users
- Jennie Olofsson - Ageing bodies, technological shifts - retired fire fighters and the embodied implications of instrumental development
Download the Final Conference Programme here.
26 March 2010
'Embodiment and Dementia'
University of Bradford, UK
Dr Pia Kontos from the University of Toronto, Canada gave the Keynote address.
20 July 2009
2nd Annual One Day Conference of the BSA Ageing, Body and Society Study Group: 'Gender, Ageing and the Body' - Download a copy of the final programme.
British Library, London, UK
25 June 2008
Re-launch of the Ageing, Body and Society group - A One Day Conference
Download the final Programme.
University of Reading , UK
Keynote Address: Professor Stephen Katz (Trent University, Canada)
Plenary Address: Professor Julia Twigg (University of Kent, UK)