The Department of Social Anthropology and History University of the Aegean
invites you to the Conference
Aging in the Pandemic Era
The pandemic has led to worldwide reconfigurations causing multiple, immediate, and long-term effects in everyday and institutional life. The lives of the elderly have often been at the centre of attention, mostly framed via biomedical risk discourses, while their own experiences and understandings of life in the pandemic era have yet to be elucidated. The contributions of this conference unravel what we see as a multiplicity of experiences and conceptualisations regarding risk, responsibility and vulnerability, as well as (dis)continuities in care relations through the prism of the elderly experience of the pandemic.
The conference will take place in the Amphitheatre | Geography Building | University Hill | Mytilene | Friday 14th and Saturday 15th October 2022
There is also the option of digital attendance with registration at the following link: https://aegean-gr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3zPaeTE8TwOcTISnJ1UAdQ
Program
Friday 14 October 2022
Welcoming note
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18:00 – 18:15 |
Venetia Kantsa, Professor, Head of the Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean |
| Aglaia Chatjouli, Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator BIO-AGE Research Project, Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean Keynote Lecture | |
| 18:15 – 19:00 | Athena McLean, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Central Michigan University |
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SORTING THROUGH COVID WONDERLAND: making sense of global institutional policies for our elders, our practices and fundamental values and understandings |
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| Discussion 19:00 – 19:30 Coffee Break |
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PANEL 1
| 20:00 – 20:20 |
Aglaia Chatjouli, Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator, BIO-AGE Research Project, Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean Thoughts on the poetics of aging in the pandemic context |
| 20:20 – 20:40 |
Dr Giorgos Kostakiotis, Researcher, BIO-AGE Research Project, Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean, Social Service Directorate, Municipality of Agia Paraskevi, Athens It isn’t just about COVID: Elderly lives and the pandemic consequences in post-Crisis Greece |
| Discussion 20:40 – 21:00 |
Saturday 15 October 2022
PANEL 2
| 10:00 – 10:20 |
Falia Varelaki, PhD Candidate, Researcher BIO-AGE Research Project, Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean ‘Supported care’: constructing new forms of care during the Covid-19 pandemic |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Dr Maria Łuszczyńska, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Social Work Department, Social Science Faculty, Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland
Polish long-term care institutions during COVID-19 pandemic years |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Dr Aspa Chalkidou, Postdoc Researcher, BIO-AGE Research Project, Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean
The shifting contents of intimacy in digitalized care provision for elders |
| 11:00 – 11:20 |
Silas Michalakas, Visual Anthropologist, Freelance filmmaker Reflections on filming in a care home |
| Discussion
11:20 – 12:00 Coffee Break 12:00 – 12:30 |
PANEL 3
| 12:30 – 12:50 | Anastasia Zissi, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of the Aegean
Creative Healthy Ageing: New challenges and directions |
| 12:50 – 13:10 | Panos Tigas, PhD Candidate, Researcher BIO-AGE Research Project, Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean
«Everyone was there, on the benches, holding plastic coffee cups in their hands». Aging, vulnerability and sociality during the Covid-19 pandemic |
| 13:10 – 13:30 | Dr Eirini Papadaki, Postdoc Researcher, BIO-AGE Research Project, Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean
Solidarity networks among elderly neighbors in Athens during the lock down |
| Discussion
13:30 – 14:00 |
The conference is organized under the research program BIO-AGE by the Lab of Family and Kinship Studies of the Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean under the research program “BIO-AGE”, “The biosocial experience of aging during the COVID-19 pandemic”, funded by the Hellenic Foundation of Research and Innovation.
