NANAS Opportunities for Upcoming 2025 ENAS/NANAS Conference

We are excited to announce two opportunities linked to the upcoming 2025 ENAS/NANAS Conference: An Emerging Scholar Conference Presentation Award and a NANAS-Sponsored Panel at the 2025 ENAS/NANAS Conference.

1. NANAS Emerging Scholar Conference Presentation Award (2025)

The NANAS Emerging Scholar Conference Presentation Award will celebrate and recognize an outstanding conference paper from an emerging scholar at the upcoming 2025 ENAS/NANAS conference in Lleida, Spain. This award will honor the best paper presented by an emerging scholar working on a subject related to age studies. The award will be based on exceptional research, methodology, and writing style. This award is open to all undergraduate and graduate students, or postdoctoral researchers. Winners will receive recognition at the conference, a certificate of achievement, and a small honorarium. Applicants must attend the conference in person to be considered. 

We encourage all emerging scholars to submit their papers for consideration. Papers will be read in advance by the awards committee and winners will be announced at the conference. More details will be shared closer to the conference. 

To apply, please submit your conference paper along with a short bio to Dr. Benjamin Gillespie (benjamin.gillespie@baruch.cuny.edu) with the subject line “NANAS Emerging Scholar Presentation Award” by March 21^st 2025.  

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2. Call for Abstract Proposals for the NANAS-Sponsored Panel at the 2025 ENAS/NANAS Conference 

The North American Network in Aging Studies (NANAS) invites individual paper abstract proposals to join a sponsored panel at the 2025 ENAS/NANAS conference in Lleida, Spain. 

We are seeking emerging, independent, and established scholars, researchers, and practitioners, of all levels of experience and from diverse disciplines working on age studies, to contribute their expertise to this panel. We hope the panel will offer a platform to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue, share cutting-edge research, and foster innovative approaches to understanding age and its intersections with identity, culture, health, and more. From exploring the narratives of aging populations to examining ageism and age discrimination, we aim to cultivate a rich discourse that transcends disciplinary boundaries. Paper proposals should fall in line with the conference themes and call found here: https://enasnanaslleida2025.com/call-for-abstracts/  

Selected panelists will be recognized by NANAS and receive a small honorarium. 

To apply, please submit a brief abstract (max. 250 words) along with a short bio to Dr. Benjamin Gillespie (benjamin.gillespie@baruch.cuny.edu) with the subject line “NANAS Sponsored Panel Proposal” by June 30^th 2024.

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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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