Symposium topics

Papers will draw on experience in a wide variety of areas. Suggested thematic issues:

1.  Ageing icons and stereotypes

2.  Creativity and ageing

3.  Growing older and sexuality

4.  Gender and ethnicity in ageing populations

5.  The language of ageing

6.  Ageism vs Youthism

7.  Media representations of ageing

8.  Care-giving and care-receiving

9.  Old people and bureaucracy

10. The longevity revolution, post-9/11

11. Ageing, migrants and exiles

12. Growing old as consciousness

13. Ageing in popular culture

14. Philosophy, spirituality and mortality

15. Ageing and humour

16. Dependency, provision and sustainability

17. Ageing and New Technologies

18. Generation gaps

19. Retirement and post-retirement

20. Fictionalising and narrativising ageing in literature

21. Ageing populations and climate change

22. Ageing and globalisation

23. Ageing across frontiers

24. Aged electorates and democracy

25. Longevity, the family and social stability