המחקר הגרו-היסטורי, הוא בבסיסו מחקר אינטרדיסציפלינרי המערב בתוכו תחומי ידע שונים, כאשר בראש ובראשונה אלה הם תחומי ההיסטוריה והגרונטולוגיה, אך הוא עוסק באופן הדוק גם בתחומים אחרים במדעי הרוח והחברה. במשך מאות רבות, הזיקנה הוגדרה באופן שונה ובהקשרים שונים בקרב מגוון קבוצות אוכלוסייה, והתגבשה הבנה כי חוויית הגיל משתנה והיא תלויית זמן, מקום ותרבות. בכנס יוצגו חוויות גיל הזיקנה בנסיון ליצור הבנה מעמיקה יותר של משמעות הזיקנה בתוך חויית החיים המושפעת מגורמים תרבותיים, חברתיים ודתיים בזמנים שונים. בכנס נפעל ליצור אג’נדה מחקרית לקידום הידע בתחום זה במבט לפנים, תוך הדגשת החללים המושגיים והאמפיריים הקיימים, והמתודולוגיות המתאימות להשלמת חללים אלה.
Historical Gerontology: Aging and Old Age in Historical and Cultural Perspective
Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation in collaboration with Minerva Stiftung University of Haifa, 18-20 December 2022
Aviva and Sammy Ofer Observatory, 30th Floor, Eshkol Tower
Sunday, 18 December
09:30-10:00 Reception and Welcome
10:00-11:15 Opening Session
Opening Words
Prof. Gur Alroey- Rector of the University of Haifa
Prof. Efraim Lev- Dean of Humanities, University of Haifa
Prof. Israel (Issi) Doron- Dean of Social Welfare & Health Sciences, University of Haifa
Dr. Galia Hasharoni, University of Haifa: The structure of the conference, it’s purpose, the agenda and It’s products.
Short Personal introduction of participants
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Session 1: Culture and nature in the social site: constructing the concept of old age
Chair: Dr. Tal Dekel (Kibbutzim College and Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Prof. David G. Troyansky (Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York,USA)
Generations of Cultural History and the Study of Old Age
Prof. Haim Hazan (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
From Ageism to Racism: On the Spirit of the time and the Specter of Old age in the
Corona Era
Prof. Susannah R. Ottaway (Carleton College, USA)
Patterns of Age Relations and Ageism in the History of Old Age
Dr. Gabriela Spector-Mersel (Sapir College, Israel)
Israeli old age: Hegemonic sources of meaning
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session 2: Aging and medical perceptions
Chair: Dr. Lavi Shay (Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi & The David Yellin Academic College of Education, Israel)
Prof. Lynn Botelho (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Geriatrics and Gerontology: Old Age in Early Modern England.
Dr. Dimitra Vassiliadou (University of the Aegean, Greece)
Being Old, Being Sad? Constructing Pre-Senile Melancholia in Greece, 1900s-1940s
Prof. Chris Gilleard (University College London, UK)
Making Age Modern: medical electricity radiotherapy and the internal secretions
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break
15:50-17:15 Session 3: Visual images of Jewish and Israeli Older persons: Art, Photo and Postcard
Chair: Dr. Assaf Selzer (University of Haifa)
Miki Joelson (The Israel Museum, Israel)
Old Age in Jewish Picture Postcards of Eastern Europe
Dr. Lavi Shay (Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi & The David Yellin Academic College of Education, Israel)
Old Aged Home: “United Aged Home Moshav Sekenim” and it’s Photographs
Dr. Tal Dekel (Kibbutzim College and Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Changing attitudes: Representations of old women throughout the history of art in
Israel
18:30 Dinner – Druze Restaurant – Daliat-el-Carmel – for conference participants .
Monday, 19 December
08:30-09:00 Gathering
09:00-10:30 Session 4: Cultural perceptions about ageing
Chair: Prof. Anna Zisberg (University of Haifa)
Dr. Isabel Richter (Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin)
Aging and transitoriness in 19th century Western Europe: a cultural history approach
Dr. Joris Gielen (Duquesna University, USA)
Old Age, Karma, and the Good Death in Hindu End-of-Life Practices and Beliefs
Prof. Rabia Khalaila (Zefat Academic College, Israel)
Modernization, transformations and challenges of aging in the Arab society in Israel
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15: Session 5: Older persons in times of change and crisis
Chair: Dr. Dikla Segel-Karpas (University of Haifa)
Prof. Hannah Marcus (Harvard University, USA)
Old Age as Cause of Death in Early Modern Italy
Emmanuelle Moscovitz (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Caring for the Elderly: The Efforts of the General Chaplaincy of the Jews of France on
Behalf of the Elderly Jews Detained in Southern France, 1940-1944.
Dr. Anat Kutner (JDC Archives, Israel)
Young State, Old Citizens- The JDC’s response to the challenges facing the young State of Israel
12:45- Guided tour and Lunch: The Cultural Mosaic of Acre
17:00-18:00—Dr. Galia Hasharoni: Closing Session day 2
Return to Haifa and free evening
Tuesday, 20 December
8:30-9:00: Gathering
9:00-10:30 Session 6: Ageing and Gender
Chair: Prof. Tova Band-Winterstein (University of Haifa)
Dr. Ruth Lamdan (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Old men, old women –old age in Early Modern Ottoman Jewish society
Dr. Andrea Antonio Verardi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Church, Aging and Old Age between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Dr. Michal Ben Ya’akov (Bar Ilan University and Efrata College for Education, Israel)
North African Jewish widows in 19th century Eretz-Israel/late Ottoman Palestine
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 7: To Another Land: Tales of Immigration at Old Age
Chair: Dr. Judith Bronstein (University of Haifa)
Prof. Gur Alroey (University of Haifa, Israel)
‘Cast me not off…’:Old age and Jewish immigration in the stories of Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Isaac Dov Berkowitz and Isaac Bashevis Singer
Dr. Galia Hasharoni (University of Haifa, Israel)
Time Turned into Place: Older Persons’ Immigration to Mandatory Palestine
Prof. Tova Gamliel (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Between Migration and Nomadism in Old Age: Tradition, Myth and Identity
12:30-13:00 Coffee Break
13:00-14:00: Closing Session: Setting future research agenda + building research bridges
Chair: Prof. Israel Doron (University of Haifa)
14:00: Lunch
End of Conference
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