Age and Ageing Bodies in the Media
Seminar October 24, 10-16, University of Copenhagen
Department of Media, Cognition and Communication
PROGRAM
10.00-10.15 Welcome: Christa Lykke Christensen, Associate Professor, Dept. of Media,
Cognition and Communication, Copenhagen University
10.15-11.15 Aging, sexuality and ‘post-ageist ageism’.
Barbara Marshall, Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Trent University in Peterborough,
Canada
11.15-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.30 Fashion, the Body and Later Life: How women’s magazines portray fashion and age
Julia Twigg, Professor, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research,
University of Kent, UK
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.00 Healthy old age? An analysis of Ældre Sagen’s member’s magazine ”Ældre Sagen”
Christa Lykke Christensen, Associate Professor, Dept. of Media, Cognition and
Communication, Copenhagen University
14.00-14.30 Monty Python Live (mostly): the ageing body in satire and comedy
Line Nybro Petersen, Assistant Professor, Dept. for the Study of Culture. Media.
University of Southern Denmark
14.30-15.00 Coffee
15.00-15.30 “I am old and ugly”. A discussion of representations of the elderly face.
Anne Jerslev, Professor, Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication,
Copenhagen University
15.30-16
Closing
The seminar is organized by the research project: Ageing and old age in the media and elderly
people’s media use http://mef.ku.dk/forskning/fokusomraaderogprojekter/aldringchrista/
It is financed by The Velux Foundation and Department of Media, Cognition and Communication,
Copenhagen University.