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<font size=4 color="#0000FF"><b>of interest? pass on as you wish -
best wishes - Chris<br><br>
</font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=4>BSA Ageing,
Body and Society STUDY GROUP 5th ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Critical
Perspectives, Future Challenges’<br>
</b>Friday July 6th 2012 <br>
The British Library Conference Centre, London<br>
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Keynote Address: <b>Professor Barb Marshall</b> (Trent University,
Canada) who will speak on: ‘<i>Ageing, Embodiment and Corporeality:
Lessons for the Sociology of the Body’<br>
</i> <br>
Plenary Panel including: <b>Professor Toni Calasanti</b> (Virginia Tech,
USA); <b>Professor Paul Higgs</b> (UCL, UK); <b>Professor Chris
Phillipson</b> (Keele University, UK); and <b>Professor Julia Twigg</b>
(University of Kent, UK)<br>
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<u>Call for Abstracts and Invitation to Delegates <br>
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During the last five years our study group has been exploring the social,
cultural and biological dimensions of our bodies as we grow older.
For our fifth annual conference we wish to take the opportunity to review
our progress and debate and consider our future challenges. In
particular, this one day conference seeks to bring together academics and
researchers whose work focuses on ageing bodies or wish to widen their
interests by exploring the embodied dimensions of their research.
We encourage researchers to share their perspectives on ‘ageing, body and
society’ and welcome abstracts on different theoretical and
methodological approaches, emergent ideas, work in progress, practitioner
perspectives, and empirical findings.<br>
<br>
We therefore invite abstracts for presentations that will be 15-20
minutes in length. <br>
<br>
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by <b>Friday</b>
<b>20 April 2012 </b>online at:
<a href="http://bsas.esithosting.co.uk/public/abstract/Abstracts.aspx">
http://bsas.esithosting.co.uk/public/abstract/Abstracts.aspx</a> <br>
<br>
Participants will be informed of the acceptance of their paper before the
end of May 2012. <br>
<br>
<b>Further information:
<a href="http://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/ageing">
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/ageing</a><br>
<br>
Abstract submission:
<a href="http://bsas.esithosting.co.uk/public/abstract/Abstracts.aspx">
http://bsas.esithosting.co.uk/public/abstract/Abstracts.aspx</a>
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