Age is not experienced in isolation but is shaped through its intersections with gender, race, class, ability, and other forms of social difference.
Since 2024, NANAS has presented a series of talks dedicated to cutting-edge age studies research foregrounding the intersections of age with diverse social systems, experiences, and identities. Abstracts and recordings of past talks are available below.
This series is hosted in collaboration with the University of British Columbia’s Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging.
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Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Love, Coercion and Survival
Dr. LaShawnDa Pittman, University of Washington – Apr. 17, 2026
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Negotiating Dance Dramaturgies of Aging
Dr. Nanako Nakajima, Dance Scholar and Dramaturg – Feb. 23, 2026
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Rituals of Ongoingness
Dr. Mérida Rúa, Northwestern University – Nov. 5, 2025
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Orientalizing Older Age
Dr. Jacob Jewusiak, Newcastle University – May 22, 2025
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Ancestors and Trickster Figures: Centering Older Black WOmen’s Lives in African American and Afro-Carribean Diaspora Literature
Dr. Saskia Furst, University of the Bahamas – Nov. 22, 2024
