Symposium
Programme*
[*The Symposium
Organising Committee reserves the right to make
alterations to this provisional programme at its
discretion]
16th, 17th & 18th October 2008
Venues: Edifici
del Rectorat, University of Lleida / Lleida /
Catalunya and Sala Fundació "la Caixa" /
Avinguda Blondel, 3 / Lleida / Catalunya.
Wednesday,
15th October 2008
17:00-19:00 - Registration and documentation
retrieval
Thursday,
16th October 2008
08:30-09:30 - Registration and documentation
retrieval
09:30-10:30 - Symposium
Inauguration
Venue: Sala d'actes (Edifici del
Rectorat - 2nd floor)
Welcome: Rector of the University
of Lleida, academic and civic dignitaries
Opening address: Manuel Porras
Muñoz - Institute for Elderly Persons and Social
Services (IMSERSO), Spanish Ministry of Education,
Political Science and Sport (MEPSYD)
10:30-12:00 - Panel session
#1
Panel #1 - The poetics of
ageing - Sala de Juntes, 2nd floor
Chair: Nela
Bureu-Ramos (University of Lleida)
1. Esther Bautista-Naranjo: Dorian Gray’s fall from grace, the
price to pay for immortality
2. Marta Cerezo-Moreno: “Lots of colors into grays”: The
Merging of Youth into Old Age in John Updike’s Seek
My Face
3. Dídac Llorens-Cubedo: The Days of Darkness in the Poetry of T.S.
Eliot and Salvador Espriu
Panel #2 - Ageism and
ethics - Sala de Juntes, 3rd floor
Chair: Jenni
Spännäri (University of Helsinki)
1. Håkan Jönson, and Annika
Thagizadeh Larsson: The exclusion of older people in disability
activism and policies—a case of inadvertent
ageism?
2. Magnus Nilsson: The discourse of ageism within anti-ageist
policy
3. Sinikka Vakimo: Aspects of Research Ethics in Cultural
Gerontology
Panel #3 - Home and places
of ageing - Sala Víctor Siurana
Chair: Marta
Miquel-Baldellou (University of Lleida)
1. Sirpa Andersson: The significance of home in older
couple’s lives
2. Jill Eversole Nolan: Aging in Place using a Cooperative Housing
Model
3. Cormac Sheehan: Homes, Social Connections, Roles.
Ethnographic Encounters with Older Persons Living
Alone in Ireland
Panel #4 - Care-giving and
care-receiving networks - Room 2.16
Chair: Alana
Jackson (University of Lleida)
1. Anu Leinonen, and Teppo Kröger:
Reconciliation of paid work and informal
care for older people: bringing new perspectives into
research on family care
2. Dimpy Mahanta, and N.K. Chadha: The Cycle of Care-Giving and Receiving
3. Anindya Jayanta Mishra: Do Indian elderly desire culturally
prescribed care and reciprocity? A study of the Old
Age Home Residents of India
12:00-12:30 - Coffee / tea
break
12:30-14:00 - Keynote
address #1
Venue: Sala d'actes (Edifici del
Rectorat - 2nd floor)
Presenter: Hans-Joachim von
Kondratowitz (Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen)
Keynote speaker: Christine E. Swane (EGV
Fonden, Copenhagen)
Title: "Dementia in a
cultural gerontological perspective"
14:00-16:00 - Lunch break*
*N.B. Lunches are
not provided by the Symposium. A list of bars and
restaurants in the vicinity of the Symposium venue
will be made available.
16:00-17:30 - Panel session
#2
Panel #5 -
Fictionalisations of remembrance and forgetfulness -
Sala de Juntes, 2nd floor
Chair: Maria
O'Neill (University of Lleida)
1. Marta Miquel-Baldellou: From the Young Student to the Old Caxtonian:
Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Lifetime Reflections on
Victorian Ageing
2. Ricardo Navarrete-Franco: Remembrance and Oblivion in George
Eliot’s Middlemarch and James
Joyce’s Ulysses
3. John Pendergast: Quarrels with Time: Shakespeare and
‘Late Style’
Panel #6 - Agency and care
- Sala de Juntes, 3rd floor
Chair: Lars
Andersson (Linköping University, Sweden)
1. Outi Jolanki: Agency and old age
2. Jyrki Jyrkämä: Agency as an approach in old age care
research
3. Jaana Nummijoki: Cultivating agency in home care.
Transforming the paradigms for encounters between
home care-workers and their elderly clients
Panel #7 - Dress and
fashion - Sala Víctor Siurana
Chair: Elena
Pérez-Serrano (University of Lleida)
1. Laura Hurd Clarke, Meridith
Griffin, and Kate Maliha: Bat Wings, Bunions, and Turkey Wattles: Body
Transgressions and Older Women’s Strategic
Clothing Choices
2. Katarzyna Smyczynska: Popular Culture and The Ageing Woman: On
Trinny and Susannah’s Philosophy of Style
3. Julia Twigg: Clothing, Identity and the Embodiment of Age
Panel #8 - Longevity and
care in India - Room 2.27
Chair:
Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz (Deutsches Zentrum
für Altersfragen)
1. Neha Ojha: The Phenomena of Ageing—“miles to
go before I sleep…”
2. Sandip Talukdar: The middle-class elderly in contemporary
India: globalization and cultural readjustments
3. Penny Vera-Sanso: The impact of globalisation on older
people’s livelihoods in South India
Panel #9 - Driving and
travelling - Room 2.38
Chair: Carme
Farré-Vidal (University of Lleida)
1. Satu Maarit Heikkinen: To drive or not to drive—older people
and car-driving in Swedish transportation policy
2. Jung, Sung-chae: Travel Motivation of Older Korean
17:30-18:00 - Coffee / tea
break
18:00-18:30 - Walk (max. 15
minutes) to Sala Fundació "la Caixa" /
Avinguda Blondel, 3 / Lleida
19:00-21:00 - Keynote
address #2*
Venue: Sala Fundació "la
Caixa" / Avinguda Blondel, 3 / Lleida
Presenter: Brian Worsfold (University
of Lleida)
Keynote speaker: Tom Kirkwood (University
of Newcastle, England)
Title: "Our Increasing
Longevity: Humanity's Big Success and an Even Bigger
Challenge"
[Simultaneous
translation into Catalan]
*Talk presented in collaboration
with the Obra Social Fundació "la
Caixa"
* * *
Friday, 17th
October 2008
09:00-10:30 - Panel session
#3
Panel #10 - Creativity as
salve of ageing - Sala de Juntes, 2nd floor
Chair: David
Rampton (University of Ottawa)
1. Nela Bureu-Ramos: Portrait of the girl as an ageing woman:
when literature finally makes sense
2. Catherine Yvonne Dinkelmann: Stories of Belonging—a tapestry of
stories. Using narrative enquiry and visual art to
investigate individual and collective identity within
a residential aged care facility
3. Antti Karisto, Anja Kuhalampi,
Arto Tiihonen, and Terhi Willman: Identity Work with Creative
Methods—Older Adults as Graphic and Personal
Novelists
Panel #11- The wisdom of
age - Sala de Juntes, 3rd floor
Chair: Jenni
Spännäri (University of Helsinki)
1. Emma Domínguez-Rué: Good Old Men in the New South: Portraits of
Elderly Male Characters in Ellen Glasgow’s
Novels
2. Ricca Edmondson: Wisdom in Later Life and a Humanistic
Approach to Gerontology
3. Nina Taunton: The Triumph of Age: All’s Well that
Ends Well
Panel #12 -
Intergenerational relationships - Sala
Víctor Siurana
Chair: Lars
Andersson (Linköping University, Sweden)
1. Lars Bergstrom: Tradition, Generation and Responsibility
2. Joanna Bornat and Bill Bytheway:
Tracking the lives of the oldest generation
3. N.K. Chadha, and Dimpy Mahanta: Intergenerational Gap: Indian Context
Panel #13 - Time and the
passing of time - Room 2.16
Chair: Isabel
Santaularia-Capdevila (University of Lleida)
1. Carmen Lara-Rallo: Ageing and Geology in Recent British Fiction
2. Maricel Oró-Piqueras: Wrinkles and Selves: Time and Memory through
the Ageing Body in Penelope Lively’s Spiderweb
and Doris Lessing’s Love, Again
3. Aagje Swinnen: “Cheer Up! Death is Round the
Corner.” The Polyphonic Representation of Old
Age in The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes
10:30-11:00 - Coffee / tea
break
11:00-12:30 - Keynote
address #3
Venue: Sala d'actes (Edifici del
Rectorat - 2nd floor)
Presenter: Nela Bureu-Ramos (University
of Lleida)
Keynote speaker: Rosa Regàs, writer
Title: "La sorpresa de
fer-se gran" ("Surprise in Growing
Old")
[Simultaneous
translation into English]
12:30-13:30 - Visit to La
Seu Vella, Lleida
13:30-14:30 - Civic
reception*
By courtesy of "La
Paeria" Ajuntament de Lleida
Venue: Lleida City Hall
14:30-16:00 - Lunch break*
*N.B. Lunches are
not provided by the Symposium. A list of bars and
restaurants in the vicinity of the Symposium venue
will be made available.
16:00-17:30 - Panel session
#4
Panel #14 - Narratives of
age identities - Sala de Juntes, 2nd floor
Chair: Bill
Bytheway (The Open University, England)
1. Clary Krekula: Age coding: Negotiated age identities and
constructions of “the Other”
2. Anushiya Sivanarayanan: Calling on “Our Boys”: The Rise of
Tamil Militant Rhetoric in Sri Lanka
Panel #15 - Vulnerability,
fragility and victimisation - Sala de
Juntes, 3rd floor
Chair: Emma
Domínguez-Rué (University of Lleida)
1. Olabisi James Ayodele: Ageing, Vulnerability to Criminality and
Victimization in Nigeria
2. Susan Ballyn: The Invisible Vulnerability of the Elderly
3. Carmen Nuin-Orrio, Pilar
Jürschik-Giménez, Miguel Angel Escobar-Bravo,
Teresa Botigué-Satorra, and Ana Lavedan-Santamaría:
Fragility in elderly people: the influence
of social relationships
Panel #16 - Getting old in
North America - Sala Víctor Siurana
Chair: Gordon
Collier (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen)
1. Pamela Garvey: Patronizing the Elderly: Fragmentation and
Dehumanization in Contemporary American Fiction
2. Teresa Gibert: Why Survive? A Satiric Deconstruction of
Being ‘Old’ in America
Panel #17 - Strategies for
well-being - Room 2.38
Chair: Stephen
Katz (Trent University, Canada)
1. Listyati Setyo Palupi: Is there any gender difference in the
psychological well-being of elderly people?
2. Emmanuelle Tulle, Claire
Ballinger, Dawn Skelton, and Christina Victor: Ageing, Exercise and Culture: Pointers for a
critical research agenda
3. Daisuke Watanabe: Group activity of older people and
ambivalence of work experiences. The case study of
three retirees in one bamboo charcoal-making club in
Japan
17:30-18:00 - Coffee / tea
break
18:00-19:30 - Keynote
address #4
Venue: Sala d'actes (Edifici del
Rectorat - 2nd floor)
Presenter: Teresa Gibert (UNED,
Madrid)
Keynote speaker: Roberta Maierhofer (University
of Graz, Austria)
Title: "A Foreign Country
with an Unknown Language: An Anocritical Approach to
Age and Aging"
21:00-22:00 - Theatre
production
Venue: Sala Fundació "la
Caixa" / Avinguda Blondel, 3 / Lleida
Play: CollAge - Theatrical
Album of a Journey Through Life / Àlbum teatral d'un
viatge per la vida
Players: Núria Casado, Ferran
Farré
Director: Òscar H. Sánchez
Production: Grup Dedal-Lit and
Nurosfera
In collaboration with: L'Obra
Social Fundació "la Caixa"
* * *
Saturday,
18th October 2008
09:00-10:30 - Panel session
#5
Panel #18 - Elderly
care-givers - Sala de Juntes, 2nd floor
Chair: Susan
Ballyn (University of Barcelona)
1. Berith Nyqvist Cech: A bridge of culture between research, the
elderly women and social care?
2. Montse Navarro-Diez, Adela
Zabalegui-Yárnoz, Esther Cabrera-Torres, Albert
Gallart-Fernandez-Puebla, María Dolores
Bardallo-Porras, and Encarna Rodriguez-Higueros: Elderly Caregiver Interventions. Are they
effective?
3. Anna Whitaker: Parenthood, disability and ageing—a
life course perspective on care-giving
Panel #19 - Ageing
palliatives - Sala de Juntes, 3rd floor
Chair:
Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz (Deutsches Zentrum
für Altersfragen)
1. Stephen Katz: Enhancing the Mind? Memory, Anti-Aging, and
The Biosocial Brain
2. Younghee Kim, Kayla Scherf,
Nancy Boudreau, and Karen Bakies: Inequality of Health Status among American
Elderly Persons: Racial, Age and Gender differences
of Serum Vitamin D levels
3. Adela Zabalegui-Yárnoz, Carmen
Nuin-Orrio, Esther Cabrera-Torres, Albert
Gallart-Fernandez-Puebla, María Dolores
Bardallo-Porras, Roser. Ricomà-Muntané, Joana
Barbera-Cortada, and Magdalena Perez-Esquiva: Palliative elderly care in Spain
Panel #20 - Ageing
discourse fictionalised - Sala Víctor
Siurana
Chair: Bill
Bytheway (The Open University, England)
1. Andy James: The Linguistic Effects of the Aging Process
in Kingsley Amis’s Ending Up
2. David Rampton: The Ethical Turn. Ageing in Late Roth
Panel #21 - Ageing
sexualities - Room 2.16
Chair: Julia Twigg
(University of Kent)
1. Ojo M. Agunbiade, Titilayo
Ayotunde, and Mustapha Opatola: Religious Doctrines and Sexuality in Old
Age: Perspectives of Older Adults in Two Yoruba
Communities in Osun State, Nigeria
2. Chaya Koren, and Zvi Eisikovits:
Life beyond the planned script: Accounts of
elder Israelis who created second couple-hood in old
age
3. Aet Leemet: Writing wrinkles
10:30-11:00 - Coffee / tea
break
11:00-12:00 - Poster
presentations
Exhibition areas:
Edifici del Rectorat, 2nd floor, main corridor
1. Rafael
Allepuz-Capdevila, Joan Pere Enciso-Rodríguez,
Mariona Farré-Perdiguer, and Cecilio.Lapresta-Rey: Economic and social implications of Ageing.
The case of the city of Lleida
2. Yrjö Engeström,
Anna-Liisa Niemelä, Jaana Nummijoki, and Juha Nyman:
A project to cultivate promising best
practices for prevention of social exclusion of
elderly people in the Helsinki home-care system
3. Håkan Jönson, and
Tove Persson: Family Members’ Claims about
Mistreatment in Old Age Care
4. Mercè Mateu-Serra,
and Marc Esteve-Laporta: Creativity and elderly people: artistic
motor practices in physical activity programmes
5. Ramona
Ribes-Castells, and Anna Soldevila-Benet: The opportunity of growing older
11:30-13:00 - Panel session
#6
Panel #22 - The elderly's
perceptions of the elderly - Sala de Juntes,
2nd floor
Chair: Núria
Casado-Gual (University of Lleida)
1. Jaime Raúl Seixas Fonseca, and
Telma Palma Cristina Alves: A Population of Older People: How They See
Themselves and How They Look at Life
2. Maria Cecilia R. San Luis: A sociological exploration of childless
elderly women’s uncertain source of security:
Life histories of marginalized Filipina elderly
Panel #23 - Popular images
of the elderly - Sala de Juntes, 3rd floor
Chair: David
Rampton (University of Ottawa)
1. Florinda de Fiesta-Mateo: Representations of the Filipino Elderly on
Philippine Primetime Television
2. Karin Lövgren: “New opportunities in
midlife”—On popular magazines aimed at
women readers aged over 45
3. Virpi Ylänne and Angie
Williams: Images of older people in TV
advertising—a focus group study
Panel #24 - The lived-in
body - Sala Víctor Siurana
Chair: Gordon
Collier (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen)
1. Eileen Fairhurst, and Susan
Baines: Health and Well-Being of Older Individuals:
a Case study of a Positive Image of Ageing Campaign
and the Production of a Calendar
2. Evy Gunnarsson: Older people’s meaning of everyday
life, ageing and the lived body
3. Marius-Adrian Hazaparu: Being old and getting old in Romania: ageing
frames in Romanian newspapers
Panel #25 - Places to grow
old in - Room 2.16
Chair: Maricel
Oró-Piqueras (University of Lleida)
1. Pilar Jürschik-Giménez, Carmen
Nuin-Orrio, Teresa Botigué-Satorra, and Ana
Lavedan-Santamaría: Factors related to loneliness and sadness in
elderly people
2. Eija Kaskiharju: The places of ageing in parliamentary
speeches
3. Tarja Tapio: How connection with nature embodies agency
in a rural village in Tornionlaakso, North Sweden
13:00-14:30 - Keynote
address #5
Venue: Sala d'actes (Edifici del
Rectorat - 2nd floor)
Presenter: Maria Vidal-Grau (University
of Lleida)
Keynote speaker: Tavengwa Nhongo (HelpAge
International, Africa)
Title: "Death and dying -
perceptions and implications for poor older people in
Africa"
14:30-16:00 - Lunch break*
*N.B. Lunches are
not provided by the Symposium. A list of bars and
restaurants in the vicinity of the Symposium venue
will be made available.
16:00-17:30 - Panel session
#7
Panel #26 - Aged migrants
- Sala de Juntes, 2nd floor
Chair: Julia
Johnson (The Open University, England)
1. Sari Irni: Mapping migration, ethnicity and the
‘ageing Europe’
2. Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz: Contrasting Cultural Definitions of
“Good Elder Care.” Perceptions and
Interpretations of Polish Female Care Workers in
Direct Elder Care Work in German Private Households
3. Julia Schonheinz, and Elisabeth
Schröder-Butterfill: Transnational Networks - Supporting Older
Transylvanian Saxons in Romania
Panel #27 - The language of
old age - Sala de Juntes, 3rd floor
Chair: Maricel
Oró-Piqueras (University of Lleida)
1. Cathy Bailey, Clodagh
Cunningham, Lisa Cogan, and Simon W. Roberts: “I fell out of my standing”: Falls
narratives and the Language of Ageing
2. Alana Jackson: Language, Identity and Images of Ageing in
Rulfo’s El Llano en Llamas
3. Jenni Spännäri: Ageing and Religious Language—From
Religious Coping to Sustaining Collective Identities
Panel #28 - Constructing
ageing profiles - Sala Víctor Siurana
Chair: Teresa
Gibert (UNED, Madrid)
1. Ester Baiget-Bonany: Reading and ageing in Alan Bennet’s Confessions
of an uncommon reader, Anne Fadiman’s Ex
Libris. Confessions of a common reader, and Jaume
Cabré’s La matèria de l’esperit
2. Núria Casado-Gual: Old age as theatrical matter: Devising and
performing CollAge, a play on the masks and
mirrors of the ageing process
Panel #29 - Literary
gerontology - Room 2.16
Chair: Stephen
Katz (Trent University, Canada)
1. AnnaLena Hållner: Chronological Ordering and the
Representation of Old Age. The Integration of
Literary Theory in Literary Gerontology
2. Deirdre O’Donnell: The (Be)coming of Age—Explorations in
theoretical approaches to the lived experience of
ageing
17:30-18:00 - Coffee / tea
break
18:00-19:30 - Closing
address
Venue: Sala d'actes (Edifici del
Rectorat - 2nd floor)
Presenter: Brian Worsfold (University
of Lleida)
Keynote speaker: Bill Bytheway (The
Open University, England)
Title: "Still the same old
me: age, resistance and finitude"
19:30-20:00 - Closure
Venue: Sala d'actes (Edifici del
Rectorat - 2nd floor)
21:30 - Symposium dinner
Venue: Hotel NH
Pirineus
Passeig de Ronda, 63
Lleida
* * *
Contact address:
Departament d’Anglès i
Lingüística,
Plaça de Víctor Siurana, 1
Tel: +34 973 702 144 / 973 703 189
/ 973 703 172
More information: http://web.udl.cat/dept/dal/cultgero/index.htm
