Aging, Old Age, Memory, Aesthetics University of Toronto, March 25-27th, 2011 All conference activities held in the Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George Street (Rm. 100A), Toronto, Canada. An extensive Post-Conference Overview is available here. FRIDAY MARCH 25TH8.00- 8.45am Registration (light refreshments provided) 8.45-9.00 Welcome 9.00-10.00 Opening Plenary Address: Prof. Kathleen Woodward, “Assisted Living: Women, Aging, Media” (English & Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington) 10.00-10.15 Break (light refreshments provided) 10.15-11.30 Panel 1: Aging and Creativity Chair: W. Andrew Achenbaum (History and Social Work, University of Houston) Andrew DuBois (English, University of Toronto): Acceding to Mortality: On Marianne Moore’s “What Are Years?” Britt C.L. Rothauser (Medieval Studies, University of Connecticut): Age and Disability in Cædmon’s Hymn Aynsley Moorhouse (Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama, University of Toronto): Sounds of Forgetting 11.30-11.45 Break 11.45-1.00pm Panel 2: The Poetics of Late Style Chair: Linda Hutcheon (English and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto) Germaine Warkentin (English, University of Toronto): The Journey to Arquà: Petrarch’s Last Songs Suzanne Bailey (English, Trent University): P.K. Page and Spatialized Time: The “Here/There” of Aging Russell Brown (English, University of Toronto): "Postmodern Man on His Last Legs": A Narrative of Kroetsch’s Narratives 1.00-1.45 Lunch (on your own) 1.45-3.00 Panel 3: Performing Older Age Chair: Marlene Goldman (English, University of Toronto) Sabine Kampmann (Art History, Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut): John Coplans’ Investigations on his Ageing Body Lora Senechal Carney (Visual and Performing Arts (art history), UTSC): Donigan Cumming, Nettie Harris, and the Performance of Old Age Bente Vinge Pedersen (Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen): Old Age Isn’t What It Used to Be 3.00-3.15 Break (light refreshments provided) 3.15-5.00 Afternoon Keynotes: Prof. Ian Lancashire, “Writing Alzheimer’s Disease” (English, University of Toronto) & Profs. Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon, “Late Style(s): The Ageism of the Singular” (English and Comparative Literature / Medicine, University of Toronto) Chair: Marlene Goldman (English, University of Toronto) 5.00-6.00pm Opening Reception Jackman Humanities Building Lobby (170 St George Street) SATURDAY MARCH 26TH9.00-10.15am Panel 4: Aging and Irony Chair: Deborah van den Hoonaard (Gerontology, St Thomas University) Duncan McFarlane (English, University of Ottawa): Swift’s Struldbruggs and the Satire of Senescence Cynthia Skenazi (French and Italian, University of California, Santa Barbara): Montaigne and the Irony of Aging Bill Randall (Gerontology & Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Narrative, St Thomas University): Aging, Irony, and Wisdom: The Narrative Complexity of Later Life 10.15-10.30 Break (light refreshments provided) 10.30-11.45 Panel 5: Aged By Culture Chair: Amanda Wicks (English, Louisiana State University) Wendy Mitchinson (History, University of Waterloo): Aging Bodies: Ideals and Realities as Depicted in Eaton’s Catalogues, 1920-1976 Nancy McVittie (Screen Arts & Cultures, University of Michigan): From Capraesque to Capra-Corn: Changing Representations of Elders During the Early Years of Social Security Linda Caissie & Deborah van den Hoonaard (Gerontology, St Thomas University): The Discourse of Zoomer Magazine: Anti-aging or Empowering? 11.45-12.30pm Lunch (on your own) 12.30-1.30 Saturday Keynote Address: Prof. Stephen Katz, “Embodied Memory: Aging, Neuroculture and the Genealogy of Mind” (Sociology, Trent University) Chair: Linda Hutcheon (English and Comparative Literature (Emeritus), University of Toronto) 1.30-1.35 Quick Stretch! 1.35-2.50 Panel 6: Trauma and Displacement Chair: Angelo Muredda (English, University of Toronto) Jennifer Cador (History in Art, University of Victoria): A Complicated Discourse: Wealth and Poverty in Vicki Marshall’s “Retired” Jodie Salter (English, University of Guelph): Aging and Genre: Representational Shifts in Canadian Literature Joanna Dawson (Centre for Studies in Religion & Society, University of Victoria): Diaspora and Its Metaphors: Amnesia and Dementia in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant 2.50-3.00 Break (light refreshments provided) 3.00-4.40 Panel 7: Memory, Dementia, Care Chair: Dr. Michael Hutcheon (Medicine, University of Toronto) Respondent: Dr. Michael Gordon (Medical Program Director of Palliative Care, Baycrest Geriatric Health Care System) Kisha G. Tracy (English, Fitchburg State University): Aging, Memory, and Medieval Confession Hannah Zeilig (Institute of Gerontology, King’s College, University of London): Gaps and Spaces: Representations of Memory Loss and Dementia in Contemporary British Poetry Amelia DeFalco (English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University) : Dementia, Caregiving and Narrative in Michael Ignatieff’s Scar Tissue Gary Kenyon (Gerontology, St Thomas University): Inner Aging and the Journey to Life: The Case for Growth through Diminishment 4.40-4.45 Quick Stretch! 4.45-6.00pm Panel 8: Space and Home Chair: Stephen Katz (Sociology, Trent University) Annmarie Adams (Architecture, McGill University) & Sally Chivers (Canadian Studies & English, Trent University): An Architecture of Dependence: Spaces for Longterm Care in 20th-Century Canada Suzanne England (Silver School of Social Work, New York University): Paid Care in Domestic and Micro-Political Space: Aging, Dependency and Memory in Driving Miss Daisy Ulla Kriebernegg & Roberta Maierhofer (American Studies, University of Graz): Coming of Age in Europe: The European Network in Aging Studies (ENAS) SUNDAY MARCH 27TH9.30-10.45am Panel 9: Aging and the Body Chair: Jodie Salter (English, University of Guelph) Pia Kontos (Toronto Rehabilitation Institute): Artistic and Literary Expressions Despite Alzheimer’s: Philosophical Reflections on Embodiment and Selfhood Katja Goebs (Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto): Multivalency in Ancient Egyptian Representations of Old Age Julia K. Dabbs (Art History, University of Minnesota, Morris): Vision and Insight: Portraits of the Aged Woman Artist, 1500-1800 10.45-11.00 Break 11.00-12.15pm Panel 10: Disciplining Decline Chair: Wendy Mitchinson (History, University of Waterloo) Roberta Maierhofer (University of Graz, Austria): Aging and Memory as Continuity and Change: Narrated Aesthetics of Growing Old Andrea Charise (English, University of Toronto): “Let the reader think of the burden”: Old Age and the Crisis of Capacity Sharon-dale Stone (Sociology, Lakehead University): Age-Related Disability: Believing Is Seeing Is Experiencing 12.15-1.15 Lunch (on your own) 1.15-2.15 Sunday Keynote Address: Prof. Philip Sohm, “Old Painters Repeating Themselves: Life Review, Embodied Memory, Cognitive Decline or Self-Preservation?” (Art, University of Toronto) Chair: Prof. Elizabeth Legge (Art, University of Toronto) 2.15-2.30 Break 2.30-3.45 Panel 11: Speculative Aging Chair: Daniel Scott Tysdal (Creative Writing, UTSC) Amanda Wicks (English, Louisiana State University): Aging, Destructive Spectatorship and Memory in Fiskadoro Angelo Muredda (English, University of Toronto): “In One’s Skin and Flesh”: Aging Bodies and Transcendent Forms in Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook Cynthia Port (English, Coastal Carolina University): No Future? Aging, Temporality, History, and Reverse Chronologies 3.45-4.00pm Closing Remarks |