Videos: Last Chapter Seminar (sessions H-K)
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H: Dystopic, Abject and Utopian ageing in Literature and Film
Marlene Goldman Torching the Dusties
Emanuela Ettorre An Act of (Literary) Resistance: Life, Labour, and Old Age in Anthony
Trollope’s The Fixed Period
Soledad Marambio Aurora Venturini and Her “Old Bitches”: Abject Representations of
Old Age as Metaphor of a Falling Country
Adrian Tait Towards an (Eco)Critical Approach to Ageing and Sustainability: the Self-
aware Society of William Morris’s News from Nowhere (1890)
I: Art for the Ageing & the Ageing Artist
1. Aagje Swinnen and Hadewych Honné Living Like an Artist:
Late-Life Creativity and Meaning in Life
2. Dominic Hardy Drawing from the Aged Body: Aspects of the Late Work of John Berger
3. Ieva Stončikaitė Literature, Creativity and The Arts as Tools for Understanding Ageing:
The Case of Erica Jong’s Literary Career
J: Female Ageing: Poetry, Creative Research Narratives and Visual Art
Peter Svare Valeur The Religion of Old Women
Pascale Millot Mirror, mirror, tell me who is the oldest one: Redefining Women’s Old
Age Through Research and Creative Writing
Laura Cayrol-Bernardo Vetulae - Depicting Women’s Ageing bodies in the Late Medieval West (13th-15th c.)
K: Ageing in the North
Daniel Chartier Nordicity and Ageing - Ageing in the North of the World
Torje Hommedal Knausgård, Christina Visted Jensen, Éloïse Lamarre and Marie Mossé
Going North: a Way of Learning to Die? Readings of Vintersong. Ei bok om desember (Hanne Bramness) and “La Honte” (Lise Tremblay)