The Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Gerontology Advisory Panel (HACGAP) invites you to join our conversation group, the Arts and Humanities Forum. Discussions will examine scholarly articles, works of art, fiction and non-fiction, film, music, performance and more. Topics will be selected by each session’s volunteer leader, in rotation. Materials will be circulated ahead of time. Participants are encouraged to respond to questions posed by the leader in advance of the session, as well as generate their own, to guide a thoughtful exchange of ideas on the roles, impact, and legacies of the arts, humanities and culture on experiences, interpretations, representations and perceptions of aging – and vice versa.
The inaugural session is scheduled for May 2, 12–1pm ET. Our first discuss will consist of an exploration of the arts and aging, based on The Gerontologist’s Special Issue on the Arts and Humanities ( https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/issue/63/10 ) which furthers a call to action issued by Andrew Achenbaum ( https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnad043 ). This first conversation will be guided by Ulla Kriebernegg, Director of the Age and Care Research Group at the University of Graz, Austria, the Special Issue editor and long-term member of HACGAP and Stephen Katz, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Distinguished Research Award recipient at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada.
Please join us for this very special conversation! We look forward to setting the tone for future sessions based on participants interests. Following this inaugural meeting of our conversation group, we will meet again on a quarterly basis. We are open to suggestions!
Conversation Leads
Stephen Katz is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Distinguished Research Award recipient at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada. He is a founding member of Trent's Centre for Aging & Society, author of books Disciplining Old Age (1996), Cultural Aging (2005) and Ageing in Everyday Life (ed. 2018) and numerous publications on critical gerontology, ageing bodies, health technologies, memory culture, cognitive impairment and quantified aging. He has been a co-investigator in several major funded projects and is currently working on a book of essays, Mind, Body and Self in Later Life.
Ulla Kriebernegg is Full Professor of Cultural Aging and Care Research and Founding Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care (CIRAC) at the University of Graz, Austria. She is also an adjunct professor at the Medical University of Graz. Based on her background in North American Literary and Cultural Studies, her research and teaching focuses on Aging Studies and Health Humanities. Ulla is a founding member of the European Network in Aging Studies, a member of GSA's Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Gerontology Panel, and Associate Editor of The Gerontologist.