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Symposium: Men, age and embodiment: Power, hegemony and deconstruction

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Time:
10/16/2008 - 12:00 - 12/02/2008 - 12:30
Location:
TEMCAS, T-building

Symposium, GEXcel Theme 2, Linköping University

Tuesday 2 December

Location: TEMCAS, T-building

 

If you wish to attend, please contact Malena Gustavson, malena.gustavson@liu.se before 1 December

  

Programme

12.30-12.45   Registration

12.45-13.00  Introduction Prof. Nina Lykke and prof. Jeff Hearn (Linköping University)

13.00-14.00  Aging bodies, constructions of masculinities, and the anti-aging industry
                   Professor Toni Calasanti (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA)

14.00-14.30  The slackening self: Concepts of agency in old manhood
                    Associate Professor Neal King (Virginia Tech, USA)

14.30-15.00  Coffee

15.00-15.30  Performing grandfatherhood: The intersections of age and masculinity
                   PhD student Anna Boden (University of Lancaster, UK)

15.30-16.00  Young, male and experiences of aging
                    Dr Niels Ulrik Soerensen (University of Aarhus, Denmark)

16.00-16.30  Getting intimate: Old Age, Masculinity and new(?) Heterosexual Morphologies
                    PhD student Linn Sandberg (Linköping University)

16.30-17.00  Break

17.00-18.00  Roundtable


Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn