Welcome!
… to our 12th Socio-Gerontechnology newsletter – which covers publications and events with a focus on Socio-Gerontechnology, calls for and information about conferences and projects and updates on future meetings.
It has now been two years since our first edition. What a great opportunity to thank all the amazing people who regularly send in information to this and keep this newsletter alive! Thank you all!
In the past two years, we have grown, organized a number of events, and developed a broader vision of the network. We are excited to take this network to the next level and work in a more consistent and systematic way by developing a more formalized network structure. This newsletter is published right before our first Socio-Gerontechnology General Assembly, to which we want to invite you with great pride (see below).
# 1
Socio-Gerontechnology Online-Symposium “Materialities of Age and Ageing” on July 7th
Due to the covid-pandemic, we had to postpone our annual meeting, scheduled for later this month, to next year. Yet we were searching for ways to engage with you. Hence, network members Vera Gallistl and Anna Wanka organized the first Socio-Gerontechnology Online Symposium “Materialities of Age and Ageing”, to give us all a chance to engage, discuss and reflect on technologies and ageing from a materialist perspective.
The symposium will take place on July 7th. In this event, we target everyone interested in ageing and technology, specifically early career researchers, and aim to, once again, bring together scholars from Age Studies and Science-and-Technology Studies to reflect upon the use and application of different ideas surrounding materialities in research on ageing and technologies.
Panelists comprise, beyond Stephen Katz as our keynote speaker, Alexander Peine, Anna Wanka, Cordula Endter, Grit Höppner, Helen Manchester, Juliane Jarke, Louis Neven, Mona Urban, Nete Schwennesen and Vera Gallistl. Next to this, there will be ample space to discuss and reflect.
Please join us for this exciting online symposium that will take place 15:00 – 18.30 CET on 7 July. Sign up for this event via the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/materialities-of-age-and-ageing-tickets-108466546360
#2
Socio-Gerontechnology General Assembly on July 7th
Directly after the online symposium, we will be holding the first Socio-gerontechnology General Assembly (GA) and would like to cordially invite you to it! During the GA, we will unveil and discuss our plans for the future (exciting announcements to come!).
Without revealing too much at this point, the idea is to formalize the status of our network and decide on an effective governance structure to prepare for our future endeavours even better. We will also launch our brand new Socio-gerontechnology website!
To join us for the Socio-gerontechnology GA on 7 July, 19:00 – 20:30 CET, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/general-assmebly-socio-gerontechnology-network-tickets-108106116304
#3
BSG Online Events 2020 and ERA Online Conference (1-3 July)
Due to the covid-pandemic, the annual conference of the British Society of Gerontology has been moved online this year. There will be a series of exciting online events, including discussion-based sessions and an Emerging Researchers in Ageing (ERA) pre-conference event. Registration is free of charge.
Information on the BSG Online Events 2020 can be found here:
https://www.britishgerontology.org/events-and-courses/bsg-annual-conference
Information on the Emerging Reseachers in Ageing Online Conference can be found here: https://www.britishgerontology.org/events-and-courses/bsg-annual-conference/emerging-researchers-in-ageing-era
#4
EASA Online Conference 2020 (21-24 July)
The European Association of Social Anthropologists’ 16th Biennial Conference will also take place online this year. Among a variety of exciting panels, including such on ageing and technologies, Anamaria Depner and network members Anna Wanka and Cordula Endter are organising a panel on “Spaces of Ageing – New Horizons of Mobility and Materiality in Later Life”.
Information on the EASA Conference 2020 can be found here:
https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2020/
#5
New Paper: “The co-constitution of ageing and technology – a model and agenda”
We want to highlight a new publication with relevance to Socio-Gerontechnology (by Alexander Peine and Louis Neven) which was just recently published in Ageing and Society. The paper investigates the theoretical gains that can be made by combining insights from Age Studies and Science and Technology Studies. It also proposes a model –the CAT-model – to highlight a number of fundamental ideas about ageing–technology relations, and puts four different arenas at the centre (life-worlds of older people, design worlds, technological artefacts and images of ageing) in and across which these relations can and should be studied.
Read the full paper here https://tinyurl.com/y8af9w4z
#6
New Report: Charting Europe’s Innovation Landscape for Age-friendly Housing, by Frans Sengers and Alexander Peine
Frans Sengers and Alexander Peine have published a new report, which covers an overview of 67 ongoing experiments in the domain of age-friendly housing. By focusing on four countries – the Netherlands, Poland, Ireland and France – the report highlights how many of these home experiments are not primarily material or technical, but social or conceptual in character (i.e. new organisational or everyday practices that re-arrange social relations or new housing concepts that bridge the divide between ageing in place individually and a nursing home).
Find more information here: http://www.homes4life.eu/2020/04/18/homes4life-innovation-analysis-report-charting-europes-innovation-landscape-for-age-friendly-housing/
#7
Call for project proposals on Equality and Wellbeing across Generations (JPI More Years Better Lives)
The joint call 2020 “Equality and Wellbeing across Generations” has been announced by the JPI More Years Better Lives. This funding scheme aims to support fundamental research in transnational projects in three areas of interest: 1) income and wealth, 2) caring responsibilities, 3) social and political participation. The deadline is 14 September.
Find the full call here: https://www.jp-demographic.eu/calls/fourth-call/
Recent Publications from the network:
Moreira, T, Hansen, AA & Lassen, AJ. 2020. From quantified to qualculated age: the health pragmatics of biological age measurement. Sociology of Health & Illness https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13109
Peine, A., & Neven, L. (2020). The co-constitution of ageing and technology–a model and agenda. Ageing & Society, 1-22.
Poli A, Kelfve S, Klompstra L, Strömberg A, Jaarsma T, Motel-Klingebiel A. Prediction of (Non)Participation of Older People in Digital Health Research: Exergame Intervention Study (2020). J Med Internet Res 2020;22(6):e17884, https://www.jmir.org/2020/6/e17884/. DOI: 10.2196/17884
Seifert, A., & Cotten, S. R. (2020). In Care and Digitally Savvy? Modern ICT use in Long-Term Care Institutions. Educational Gerontology, 1-13.
Strutzek, D., Dickel, M., Randall, D. & Müller, C. (2020): How Live Streaming in Church Services Promotes Social Participation in Rural Areas. Interactions, 2020, 65-69.
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