Saturday, October 11, 2008
9 am to 5:30 pm
Reception to follow
UC Berkeley, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
220 Stephens Hall, Geballe Room
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
ENGAGING AGING THROUGH THE HUMANITIES
SHOW US YOUR VIEW/VISION OF AGING/OLD AGE!
ELIGIBILITY: All UC Berkeley students (non-professional photographers only). We especially encourage undergraduates to enter.
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| Popular culture has it that aging and old age are, at best, a nuisance. Medicine seeks to ameliorate their ravages and, in decades to come, will seek to 'cure' them. The purpose of this conference is to look at aging and old age through the various lenses of the arts and humanities. There will be presentations and discussions with an historian, a dancer/choreographer, a neurolinguist, a photographer, an anthropologist, and a musician-neuroscientist. And, a molecular biologist will consider “the humanities and aging”.
Registration fee is $45.00 for all attendees. Please register prior to the event through the UC Berkeley Extension either online at www.unex.berkeley.edu/enroll or by phone at (510) 642-4111. You will need to cite course EDP #028415 and pay by credit card. Limited on-site registration begins at 8:30 am, with payment by check only. Sponsors: UC Berkeley Resource Center on Aging/Academic Geriatric Resource Program; UC Berkeley Center for Medicine, the Humanities and Law; UC Berkeley Extension; UC Berkeley Retirement Center; Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities; ASUC Art Studio, A Public Arts Program of UC Berkeley; and UC Berkeley Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. |
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM |
Refreshments/Registration |
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| 9:00 AM - 9:10 AM |
Introduction - Guy Micco |
| 9:10 AM - 10:00 AM |
History of Old Age - Thomas Laqueur, Professor of History, UCB |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
“A Scientist Looks at the ‘Humanities and Aging’” - Paola Timiras, Professor Emerita, Molecular and Cell Biology, UCB |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM |
Break |
| 10:45 AM - 11:45 PM |
“Successful Aging” - Professor Hanna Ulatowska, Neurolinguist, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas, Dallas |
| 11:45 PM - 1:15 PM |
Lunch - on your own |
| 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM |
“Aging Dance” - Anna Halprin, choreographer and dancer |
| 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM |
“Music and Aging: Honey, they’re playing our song” - Julene Johnson, Associate Professor of Neurology, UCSF Memory and Aging Center |
| 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM |
Break |
| 3:20 PM - 4:20 PM |
Women aging in India - Rupa Chowdhury, PhD candidate (South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley) |
| 4:20 PM - 5:10 PM |
Visual Arts and Aging - Ron Partridge, photographer |
| 5:10 PM - 5:20 PM |
Announcement of the Photography Contest on Aging and Old Age Winners |
| 5:20 PM - 5:30 PM |
Closing, Guy Micco, MD |
| 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM |
Reception with music |