Recent and upcoming events and news 2024-25

WAU Congress, Johannesburg, 11-15 Nov 2024

Commission on Aging and the Life Course panel, ‘Care and the Anthropological Imagination’

 

Recent past events

EASA2024, 23-26 July 2024

Official Anthropology of Confinement panel selection ‘Doing and Undoing Carcerality’

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Past events and other newsworthy bits

April 2, 2024 “Fragile Resonance” book talk for Unfolding Finitudes seminar, Leiden University

Mar 1, 2024 “Unsettled Futures: Aging, Care and Carcerality in Japan.” Care Forum, University of Houston

Oct 14, 2023 “Envisioning World Anthropologies of Aging and the Life Course: Bringing the Marginal to the Center” World Anthropology Congress, Delhi

Dec 14, 2022 “Ageing and the Carceral Circuitry of Post-Welfare Japan” SOAS University

Nov 27, 2022 “Ageing and the Uncanny Return of Carceral Churn” University of Manchester

Apr 27, 2022 “Doing Time in Deviant Spaces: Aging and the Carceral Condition in Japan” AIAS Aarhus University, Denmark

Nov 13, 2021 “The Future of Futurity: Generation, Heritage and Interconnection” IUAES2021 Yucatan Congress

March 9, 2021 “Coming of (old) age on earth: Imagining our aging future” IUAES2020 Congress (online)

July 21, 2020 "‘The air of shaba’: Welfare as confinement for older ex-offenders in Japan” EASA conference (online)

June 26, 2020 ‘Imagining confinement and care in post-COVID world’ Keynote address, AAGE Conference (online)

Nov 27, 2019 “Declining Fertility and Aging Population” University of Manchester, UK

Nov 17, 2019 “Doing Time: Age(ing), Care, and the Carceral Continuum” AAA/CASCA, Vancouver, CA

Sept 20, 2019 Celebrating Care. Wellcome Trust sponsored public forum on unpaid care combining insights from archaeology, anthropology and history. Exeter Phoenix, Exeter UK

Sept 12, 2019 “What can we learn about dwelling from older ex-offenders in Japan and the UK?” Enhancing Housing Affordability and Social Care in Japan and the UK: Comparative Evaluation of Policy and Practice, (AHRC-ESRC) Oxford Brookes University

Sept 9, 2019 Borders of habit and the challenge of transformation for ex-offenders in Tokyo, Japan, HSS Research Conference, Oxford Brookes University

Jan 18, 2019 Frail aesthetics and slow life: personhood and longevity in Japan. Perspectives on Frailty: Risk and Lived Experience, University of Liverpool

Nov 24, 2018 Love and Imagination that Transcends Death 死を超越する愛と想像力Death and Life Studies in East Asia: Hyper-Aging and Dying. International Symposium of Thanatology. Tokyo University.

Dec 9, 2017 Care as emotion and ethics: toward a cross-cultural comparative approach. Thinking about an Anthropology of Care, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka