Contemporary Ageing Studies have primary conceptualized age as a temporal condition, focusing on the 'coming of age', on the wuestion when and how it sets in, what its defining moments are or whether and how it can be postponed. In this workshop, we reflected instead on age as a spatial condition, unfolding in a set of clearly demarcated and often ideologically charged locations. How space relates to ageing is important also because we live in a world that is shaped by ever-increasing mobilities, but also with its opposite, confinement. Ageing can be experienced 'in place' but also in various forms of displacement. We therefore employ the concept of displacement broadly to refer to forms of mobility, voluntary or forced.
Lectures were given by Prof. em. Dr. Rüdiger Kunow (University of Potsdam), Dr. Nicole Haring (University of Graz), Dr. habil. Heike Hartung (University of Potsdam/University of Graz) and Dr. Andrea Zittlau (University of Rostock).
The workshop included a book presentation of "Masculinities Aging Between Cultures - Relationality, Kinship and Care in Dialogue" (Heike Hartung, Roberta Maierhofer, Christian Smitt-Kilb Eds.).