Historicizing the ageing self: Literature, medicine, psychology, law

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The project is supported by the Research Council of Norway's Programme for Cultural Conditions Underlying Social Change (SAMKUL) in the period 2016-2021.

SAMKUL aims to generate new knowledge about the cultural dimensions of current social challenges.

Symposium

Symposium at the University of Warwick

The symposium "Living a Good Life in Older Age: Literary, Philosophical, Medical and Psychological Insights" will take place at the University of Warwick, July 5-6, 2018.

Seminar series

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Sleep, Senescence, Subjectivity

Professor George Rousseau's Annual Seminar will be held at the University of Bergen, October 3-5 2018.

Lectures

From Simone de Beauvoir to Annie Ernaux: Ageing in French literature

In French literature, especially in women's writing, a new interest in the topic of ageing has arisen. Professor Martine Boyer-Weinmann (Université Lumière-Lyon-II) will give two lectures on this topic at UiB and Litteraturhuset i Bergen in October.

New PhD candidate

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In Search of the Ageing Self

Gunn Inger Sture is a new PhD candidate affiliated with the project “Historicizing the ageing self”. Her PhD project has the working title “Marcel Proust – time metaphors, memory and ageing”.

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