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Women, Ageing and Media International Conference 5th December 2008

AHRC international Conference - Crossing Cultures: Women, Ageing and Media, to be held at the University of Gloucestershire (Cheltenham) on 5th December 2008.

 

Conference Programme

09.00-09.45 Registration 

09.45-10.00 Welcome and introduction to conference themes

                   Dr Ros Jennings

 

10.00-11.30 Opening keynotes:

The ambivalence of aging: media and aging women in an Africa context

Dr Kate Omenugha (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria);

Nationalised Embodiments: performing age and celebrity

Dr Sadie Wearing (London School of Economics, UK)

 

11.30-11.45 Break

11.45-13.15 Parallel Panels

Panel 1: Screening the Body

Silver Screen: the older woman in film - Colette Duke (Sussex University)

Transgressive or empowering? Depictions of the ageing female's sexuality in contemporary British cinema - Louise Wilks (University of Liverpool)

Panel 2: Image. Text, Ageing

Older Women and the Fashion Magazine - Professor Julia Twigg (University of Kent)

"One Nice Thing about Getting Old is that Nothing Frightens You". From Page to Screen: Rethinking Women's Old Age in Howl's Moving Castle - Dr Aagje Swinnen (Maastricht University)

  

13.15-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Parallel Panels

Panel 3: Community, Cultures, Campaigns

 

'It's not going to be like this is it?': Celebrating Age Festival 2008 - Josephine Dolan (University of the West of England)

Female Bodybuilders and Documentary Television: Exploring Narratives of Ageing - Dr Cassandra Phoenix (University of Exeter)

Panel 4: Actresses and Ageing
Neo-Noir's Fatal Woman: Stardom, Survival and Sharon Stone - Rebecca Feasey (Bath Spa University).

Time-Ripen'd Talents: Stardom, Performativity and the Decline of Classical Hollywood in the British Aging Actress Cycle 1964-74 - Dr Esther Sonnet (University of Portsmouth).

15.30-16.00 Break

 

16.00-16.45 Conference keynote:

Assisted Living: Women, Aging, and Media

Professor Kathleen Woodward (University of Washington, USA)

 

16.45-17.30 Closing plenary

 

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Conference organizer: Dr Ros Jennings

Reader in Cultural Studies
Head of Postgraduate Research
The University of Gloucestershire
The Park Campus
Cheltenham, 
rjennings@glos.ac.uk
Tel: 0044 (0)1242 715002

Conference administrator: Eva Krainitzki