Hello,

I am writing to request your help in completing a brief survey about teaching age studies.  I am looking to find respondents who both:

 teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only b…[Read more]

Greetings colleagues,

I am writing to ask for your help in completing a brief survey about teaching age studies.  I am looking to find respondents who both:

 teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate c…[Read more]

The deadline for proposals about “The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging” has been extended to 3/15/15. The panel, co-sponsored by the Age Studies Forum and Teaching in the Profession Forums will take place at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in Austin, Texas January 7-10, 2016.

What difference does age make in…[Read more]

The deadline for proposals about “The Oldest Profession:  Teaching and Aging” has been extended to 3/15/15.  The panel, co-sponsored by the Age Studies Forum and Teaching in the Profession Forums will take place at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in Austin, Texas January 7-10, 2016.

What difference does age make in w…[Read more]

The deadline for proposals about “The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging” has been extended to 3/15/15. The panel, co-sponsored by the Age Studies Forum and Teaching in the Profession Forums will take place at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in Austin, Texas January 7-10, 2016.

What difference does age make in what we…[Read more]

An exciting range of panels seeking papers for MLA 2016:

The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_7484
Ageism and Activism: EngAging the Public http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_8111
Reading Over Time http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_8109
Time, Youth, and Age in Renaissance Literature http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_7886
The…[Read more]

“No story is the same to us after a lapse of time,” George Eliot writes in Adam Bede, “or rather, we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.” For a proposed MLA special session, we seek papers on reencountering texts at different moments in the life course. Given debates about the perception of “late style” in the work of artists and…[Read more]