ELECTION 2024 RESULTS

This year, four positions in the Governing Council were up for election: Dr. Nicole Dalmer, Dr. Benjamin Gillespie and Dr. Heunjung Lee were all re-elected as members-at-large on the Governing Council. Dr. Sally Chivers was elected as the Institutional Representative.

The proposed amendments to the NANAS Constitution and Bylaws also passed. You can revisit these documents at the following link.

Thank you to the NANAS membership for your continued participation and contribution to our organization.

ELECTION 2024

Election season is upon us and we have two important votes – we need your participation. 

First, voting is now open to elect new members of the Governing Council — this year, four positions in the Governing Council are up for election: three candidates to serve as members-at-large on the Governing Council and one Institutional Representative. To learn about the excellent candidates standing for election, go to the NANAS Election 2024 page. 

This link will take you to the Governing Council ballot where you can vote.

Second, the NANAS Governing Council has been revisiting and revising two core documents to NANAS – its Constitution and Bylaws. As a result of these efforts, we propose some changes to both documents that more responsively reflect the current ways in which NANAS operates. We are asking members to consult the following two documents – the NANAS Constitution and the NANAS Bylaws that detail and explain the suggested changes. We need at least two thirds of our membership to vote and approve constitutional changes, so please take the time to vote. 

This link will take you to the proposed Bylaw and Constitution changes ballot where you can vote.

Both ballets will remain open for voting through March 13, 2023.  Please make sure your NANAS membership is up-to-date in order for your vote to count. 

Thank you for your participation and contribution to our organization.

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NOW ONLINE: Watch the sessions from the NANAS On-Line Symposium on “Contested Language and the Study of Later Life” on the NANAS Youtube Channel.

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CFP: NANAS On-Line Symposium: Contested Language and the Study of Later Life

Although complexities surrounding how aging and later life are depicted, experienced, studied and “disciplined” are well known, albeit debated, the language we use to talk about age-related issues has received less attention. Yet, the ways scholars and researchers talk and write about old age can be fiercely contested for a variety of reasons including disciplinary conventions, cultural and/or historically embedded meaning, regional differences, and others.

In this two-day online symposium we want to create a space for careful considerations and constructive conversations about the central terminologies of age studies in the humanities.  We therefore invite abstract submissions for papers, workshops or themed panels that will take place from November 18-19 (times to be determined). We welcome presentations from interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences that engage with (but are not limited to) various topics related to contested language such as language related to the following:

• Words such as elderly, elder, older, old, senior citizen
• Gerontology, age studies
• Successful aging, productive aging, active aging
• Discursive framing of dementia (e.g., living with, suffering from)
• Figurative language, including metaphors, idiomatic expressions, etc. (e.g. age as decline, burdened by age)
• Gerontechnologies
• Longevity

We will offer a prize of year’s membership in NANAS to the students, graduate students or emerging scholars who author and present the three best papers. Papers should be 10 minutes long and should address some aspect of contested language in research, practice, or performance.

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