Reflections on aging in the arts, medical texts, historical sources and literature reveal concepts of age, societal expectations, and stereotypical notions which determine how individuals approach late life, but also how these cultural assumptions of age-appropriate behavior can be subverted, changed, and expanded. By looking at socio-biological thresholds and analyzing how fluctuating models of the stages of human life have circulated in different time periods, our goal is to assess recurring patterns and continuities, new forms of expression and changes as well as complexities that provide a framework through which cultural constructions of age(ing) may be analyzed and understood. Thus the conference seeks to enrich the ongoing discussion on age and aging with new perspectives.
Scientific Organization: Prof. Dr. Andrea von Hülsen-Esch (Krautheimer-fellow, University of Duesseldorf, Germany) and Dr. Laura Cayrol-Bernardo (University of Bergen, Norway). Biblioteca Hertziana, Max Planck Institut für Kunstgeschichte in collaboration with the Norwegian Institute in Rome.
The venues for the conference:
Tuesday 28 March
Venue: Biblioteca Hertziana, Villino Stroganoff in Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome. Online participation: Vimeo https://vimeo.com/event/2092675
Contact person at the Hertziana: rossi@biblhertz.it
Wednesday 29 March
Venue: The Norwegian Institute in Rome in Viale Trenta Aprile 33, 00153 Rome. Online partipation via zoom: https://uio.zoom.us/s/65576716260
Contact person at The Norwegian Institute in Rome: Prof. Kristin Bliksrud Aavitsland