MLA Sessions Relevant to Age Studies

Note: All of the sessions below relate to the Presidential Theme, Boundary Conditions

Thursday 5 January

Session 9

“Reimagining Adolescence: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?”

12 noon-1:15 p.m.

102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Session 96

“Out of Narrative Bounds: Medica…[Read more]

MLA Sessions Relevant to Age Studies

Note: All of the sessions below relate to the Presidential Theme, Boundary Conditions

Thursday 5 January

Session 9

“Reimagining Adolescence: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?”

12 noon-1:15 p.m.

102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Session 96

“Out of Narrative Bounds: Medical Human…[Read more]

Greetings! I have been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the forum TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies, so I thought I’d take a moment to introduce myself and outline some of my interests and goals. I currently serve as assistant professor of medical humanities at the Florida State University College of Medicine. D…[Read more]

The first election of a Delegate Assembly representative for TC Medical Humanities and Health Sciences will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for m…[Read more]

In the fall of 2017, TC Age Studies will hold its first-ever Delegate Assembly election. The nomination process that applies to executive committee elections will also apply to the election of forum delegates, so membership suggestions are needed–see Valerie Lipscomb’s post. So when the forum’s executive committee meets during the January 2017 c…[Read more]

When the Age Studies Forum Executive Committee meets in January, we will consider possible nominees for the fall 2017 exec. committee election.  We nominate at least one candidate who has been suggested by the forum’s membership, unless there are too few suggestions. We encourage all of you to submit possible nominees, and self-nominations are en…[Read more]

As a nominee for this forum’s executive committee, I would like to introduce myself and my research.

As we know, Age Studies is one of the most interesting, developing fields at the moment. For the MLA panels, I would be interested in choosing topics that showcase the interdisciplinary nature of the field. I would also like to solicit s…[Read more]

Roundtable: (Early) American Disgust

Expressed both publicly and privately, disgust is often a response to the new and the different, whether referring to people, food, behaviors, or ideologies, and this was no less true in the early Americas than it is today. Because disgust is historically and culturally constructed, early texts…[Read more]