Perceptions of Aging and Old Age: Thresholds and Life-Cycles

Conference

  • Event open to the public without registration
  • Beginn: 28.03.2023 09:15
  • Ende: 29.03.2023 17:30
  • Vortragende(r): Conference
  • Ort: March 28th: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo https://vimeo.com/event/2092675) and March 29th: The Norwegian Institute in Rome, Viale Trenta Aprile 33, 00153 Roma (Online via ZOOM)
  • Kontakt: rossi@biblhertz.it
Perceptions of Aging and Old Age: Thresholds and Life-Cycles
Images of old age and aging determine how we handle demographic change. This conference will explore how the stages of the life cycle have been construed throughout history in order to consciously recognize the stereotypes that emanate from these age categories.

Reflections on aging in the arts, medical texts, historical sources and literature reveal concepts of age, societal expectations, and stereotypical notions which determine how individuals approach late life, but also how these cultural assumptions of age-appropriate behavior can be subverted, changed, and expanded. By looking at socio-biological thresholds and analyzing how fluctuating models of the stages of human life have circulated in different time periods, our goal is to assess recurring patterns and continuities, new forms of expression and changes as well as complexities that provide a framework through which cultural constructions of age(ing) may be analyzed and understood. Thus the conference seeks to enrich the ongoing discussion on age and aging with new perspectives.

For partecipation online please follow on
March 28 : https://vimeo.com/event/2092675
March 29:
https://uio.zoom.us/j/65576716260

 

Perceptions of Aging and Old Age: Thresholds and Life-Cycles

March 28 & 29, 2023

Bibliotheca Hertziana ­– Max-Planck-Institute for Art History, Rome  and  The Norwegian Institute in Rome

 

Tuesday, 2023, March 28 – Bibliotheca Hertziana

Via Gregoriana 28, 00187 Roma : https://vimeo.com/event/2092675

09.15

Welcome and Introduction
Welcome: Tanja Michalsky, Director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana
Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, University of Duesseldorf
Laura Cayrol-Bernardo, University of Bergen

 

Section 1:  
Moderator: Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, University of Duesseldorf

Interventions
Kristin B. Aavitsland, The Norwegian Institute in Rome
Life Turning on Death: The Life Cycle in Late Medieval and Early Modern Visual Rhetoric

Camille Brouzes, University of Rouen
The Ages of Man in Late Medieval French Poetry: a Self-Portrait Technique?

11.00

Pause

11.30

Section 2:
Moderator: Giovanna Pinna, University of Molise
Interventions

Svetlana Luchitskaia, Academy of Science, Moscow
‘Li darriens tens et la fin de l’aage’. Philippe of Novara’s Views on Age and Aging
Christian Alexander Neumann, German Historical Institute in Rome
Old Age and the English Kings: Thresholds, Transitions, and Turning Points (12–14th Centuries)

13.00

Lunch

14.00

Section 3
Moderator: Ulla Kriebernegg, University of Graz
Interventions

Laura Cayrol-Bernardo, University of Bergen
Understanding Sex Difference in Later Life: « Menopause » as a Threshold in Medieval Thought (12th-15th c.)
Daniel Schäfer, University of Cologne
Medical Invention of the Infertile Old Man?Reflections on the Early Modern Discussion of Male Old-Age Sterility and Impotence

15.30

Pause

16.00

Moderator: Anita Wohlmann, University of Southern Denmark
Intervention

Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, University of Duesseldorf
Diagrammatic Thinking and the Division of Life into Ages

 

Wednesday, 2023, March 29 – The Norwegian Institute in Rome

Viale Trenta Aprile 33, 00153 Roma : https://uio.zoom.us/j/65576716260

09.15

Welcome
Kristin B. Aavitsland, Director of The Norwegian Institute in Rome

 

Section 4:
Moderator: Daniel Schäfer, University of Cologne
Interventions

Jaco Zuijderduijn, University of Lund
The Three Myths of Old Age – and Why Historians Should Care
Giovanna Pinna, University of Molise
On Ageing and Agency. Nussbaum vs. de Beauvoir

11.00

Pause

11.30

Section 5:
Moderator: Laura Cayrol-Bernardo, University of Bergen
Interventions

Margery Vibe Skagen, University of Bergen
Outsiders on the Threshold to Eternity: Representations of Old Age in 19th century French Poetry
Maria Soledad Marambio Castro, University of Bergen
The Hero’s Bloody Journey: Female Characters in Menopause Narratives

13.00

Lunch

14.30

Section 6:
Moderator: Maria Soledad Marambio Castro, University of Bergen
Interventions

Anita Wohlmann, University of Southern Denmark
Studying Old Age in Literary Texts: Critique and Postcritique
Ulla Kriebernegg, University of Graz
“I fear I am not in my perfect mind”: Perceptions of Aging and Vulnerability in 21st Century Productions of Shakespeare’s “King Lear”

16.00

Pause

16.30

 

Closure
Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, University of Duesseldorf
Laura Cayrol-Bernardo, University of Bergen

For partecipation online please follow on
March 28 : https://vimeo.com/event/2092675
March 29:
https://uio.zoom.us/j/65576716260

 

Scientific Organization: Prof. Dr. Andrea von Hülsen-Esch (Krautheimer-fellow, University of Duesseldorf, Germany) and Dr. Laura Cayrol-Bernardo (University of Bergen, Norway)

 

 

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