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UC Berkeley Engaging Aging through the Humanities Conference |
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This conference is dedicated to the memory of Paola Timiras, MD
Professor Emerita, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Saturday, October 11, 2008
9 am to 5:30 pm
Reception to follow
Location: UC Berkeley, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
220 Stephens Hall, Geballe Room
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| Popular culture has it that aging and old age are, at best, a nuisance. Medicine seeks to ameliorate their ravages and, in decades to come, will seek to 'cure' them. The purpose of this conference is to look at aging and old age through the various, perhaps softer, lenses of the arts and humanities. There will be presentations and discussions with a poet, a dancer/choreographer, a neurolinguist, a photographer, an anthropologist, and a musician-neuroscientist. And, a molecular biologist will consider “the humanities and aging”.
Registration fee is $45.00 for all attendees. Please register prior to the event through the UC Berkeley Extension either online at www.unex.berkeley.edu/enroll or by phone at (510) 642-4111. You will need to cite course EDP #028415 and pay by credit card. Limited on-site registration begins at 8:30 am, with payment by check only. Conference Hosts: UCB Center on Aging/Academic Geriatric Resource Program; UCB Center for Medicine, the Humanities, and Law; UCB Extension; UCB Retirement Center Co-Sponsors: Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities; UCB Center on Photography; ASUC Arts Studio/A Public Arts Program of UCB; UCB Osher Lifelong Learning Center |
AGENDA
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM |
Refreshments/Registration |
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| 9:00 AM - 9:10 AM |
Introduction - Guy Micco |
| 9:10 AM - 10:00 AM |
“Eldering” - Marilyn McEntyre, Fellow, Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts, Westmont College |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
“A physician looks at ‘the humanities and aging’” - Jay Luxenberg, MD, Medical Director of the Jewish Home for the Aged, San Francisco |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM |
Break |
| 10:45 AM - 11:45 PM |
“Successful Aging” - Professor Hanna Ulatowska, Neurolinguist, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas, Dallas |
| 11:45 PM - 1:15 PM |
Lunch - on your own |
| 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM |
“Aging Dance” - Anna Halprin, choreographer and dancer |
| 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM |
“Music and Aging: Honey, they’re playing our song” - Julene Johnson, Associate Professor of Neurology, UCSF Memory and Aging Center |
| 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM |
Break |
| 3:20 PM - 4:20 PM |
“Take Me to the Other Side” - a film on old age homes for women in Kolkata by Ruprekha Chowdhury, PhD candidate (South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley) with a commentary by Lawrence Cohen, Professor of Anthropology and South and Southeast Asian Studies, UCB |
| 4:20 PM - 5:10 PM |
“75 Years of Seeing the World Through a Camera Lens: Rondal Partridge at 91” - with Rondal Partridge |
| 5:10 PM - 5:20 PM |
Announcement of the Photography Contest on Aging and Old Age Winners (please see below for details about the photography contest) |
| 5:20 PM - 5:35 PM |
Closing, Thomas Laqueur, Professor of History, UCB |
| 5:35 PM - 6:30 PM |
Reception with music performed by the Betty Shaw combo |
PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST
ENGAGING AGING THROUGH THE HUMANITIES
photography submissions by UC Berkeley students
To view students' vision of aging/old age click here
(Note: Can be seen only with Firefox 3, Safari 3 or Internet Explorer 7)
For information about individual photographs, click on the photograph, then click on "i"
If you have questions, please email ddriver@berkeley.edu