Upcoming Events
NANAS CONFERENCE:
The first NANAS conference is scheduled for Tuesday May 19 – Friday, May 22, 2015, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Please see the “Call for Papers” link below:
Keynote speakers for the conference are:
Dr. Ros Jennings, Head of Postgraduate Research, Director of the Centre for Women, Ageing and Media (WAM) and Reader in Cultural studies at the University of Gloucestershire and co-editor (with Abigail Gardner) of ‘Rock On’: Women, Ageing and Popular Music
http://insight.glos.ac.uk/departments/adu/adustaff/pages/rosjennings.aspx
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409428411
Dr. Jaber Gubrium, Chair, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Missouri; founder and editor of The Journal of Aging Studies; and author of numerous books and articles on narrative analysis and ethnographies centered on experiences of old age and growing older.
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-aging-studies/
Dr. Teresa Mangum, Director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies; Professor, Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa; author of Married, Middle-brow, and Militant: Sarah Grand and the New Woman Novel (1998); editor of A Cultural History of Women: Volume 5: The Age of Empire, 1800-1920 (Berg 2013); and guest editor of special issues of Philological Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Victorians Periodical Review, and the Journal of Aging Studies.