Curso Livre em FLUL

O curso tem como os seus objectivos uma introdução ao estudos de envelhecimento e um aprofundamento de alguns dos seus temas tais como a masculinidade e a feminilidade e o envelhecimento; o envelhecimento em alguns exemplos literários em língua inglesa; os temas chave de gerontologia literária e cultural; a memória, a identidade e o corpo. The course will offer an overview of ageing studies with an insight into the theory as well as literature and culture in English it sustains. It will advance the understanding of the ageing process across lifespan and its expression in different genres such as life-writing, poetry and fiction. The ESC in AS will interrogate the cultural articulations of ageing and old age in relation to other critical categories such as gender, social status or sexual orientation and introduce the participants to scholarlily approaches to the study of age, grief and ageing.Whereas longevity, especially female longevity, has been the new reality, it is still dependent on the economic interests, fear, unrealistic expectations as well as frank limitations of medicine. And yet, older women and men have been constituting a creative hub that may be of undeniable importance in these difficult, pandemic-ridden times when we, more than before, search for new words, new spaces of belonging and new directions. Using literary and cultural texts, we will map out literary and cultural gerontology: older womanhood and manhood, as a fertile and urgent field of study for our present times. The objective of the course is to capture audience interested in the area and its involvement in the Women and Ageing Group Meetings as well as possible participation in the Within and Without: representations of Ageing: International Symposium II, FLUL, 17 May, 2022 (on-line).