Keynote Speakers

Prof. Kathleen Woodward

(English & Dir. Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington)

 Author of Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions (2009), 

Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions (1991), 

and Editor of Figuring Age: Women—Bodies—Generations (1999)


Prof. Stephen Katz 

(Sociology, Trent University)

Author of Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge (1996) 

and Cultural Aging: Essays on Life Course, Lifestyle, and Senior Worlds (2005)


Prof. Philip Sohm 

(Art History, University of Toronto)

Author of The Artist Grows Old: The Aging of Art and Artists in Italy 1500-1800 (2007) 


Prof. Ian Lancashire

(English, University of Toronto)

Author of Forgetful Muses: Reading the Author in the Text (2010)


Profs. Linda Hutcheon (English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus) and Michael Hutcheon (Medicine)

Authors of Opera: Desire, Disease, Death (1996), Bodily Charm: Living Opera (2000), and Opera: The Art of Dying (2004). 

Their current project is a study of the later creative life and “late style” of opera composers.