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This symposium, organised by Associate Professor Dr Michaela Schrage-Früh (MLAL/Centre for European Studies) explores cultural representations of gender and ageing across Europe. All welcome, but please register in advance by contacting Michaela.SchrageFrueh@ul.ie
PROGRAMME:
9.15-9.30 Arrival and Welcome
9.30-10.20 Keynote Chair: Michaela Schrage-Frueh (UL) Maricel Oró-Piqueras (Universitat de Lleida), Female Ageing through European Eyes: The older woman in Deborah Moggach’s and Maria Barbal’s Fiction
10.20-10.40 Tea/Coffee
10.40-12.00 Panel 1: Ageing, Gender and Film Chair: Linda Shortt (Maynooth) Jean Conacher (UL), Coming of age in the love triangle: Roger Michell's The Mother (2003) and Andreas Dresen's Wolke 9 (2008). Johannes Vith (UL), Lunar Ageing: Reversed Temporalities in Andrzej Żuławski's On the Silver Globe (1988) and Duncan Jones's Moon (2009) Susan Liddy (MIC), ‘The less said…’: Negotiating Ageing and Careers in the Screen Industries
12.00-12.10 Break
12.10-13.00 Panel 2: Ageing and Gender in Irish Fiction and Life Writing Chair: Deirdre Flynn (MIC) Maggie O’Neill (Galway), Representations of Gendered Ageing in Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle Sorcha de Brún (UL), Women’s Work: Masculine Cultural Dominance, Age and Gender in Peig: A Scéal Féin (1998)
13.00-14.00 Lunch (Pavillion)
14.00-15.20 Panel 3: Ageing and Gender in Swiss, Scottish and French Film and Fiction Chair: Jean Conacher (UL) Anita Barmettler (UL), Disruptive Old Women in the Swiss Film Late Bloomers Gabrielle Fath (ENS Lyon), Writing against the Cult of Youth in the Modern West: the gendered and socio-economic implications of ageing as portrayed in Muriel Spark’s Memento Mori and Michel Houellebecq’s La possibilité d'une île Eva Auré (UL), Revealing Silence Around Women’s Ageing in Jackie Kay’s ‘These are not my Clothes’ and Marie-Sabine Roger’s ‘On n’a pas tous les jours cent ans…’
15.20- 15.30 Break
15.30-16.50 Panel 4: Gender and Ageing in Irish and German Fiction and Life Writing Chair: Maricel Oró-Piqueras (Universitat de Lleida) Michaela Schrage-Früh (UL), Ageing and the Posthuman in Recent Irish and German Novels Deirdre Flynn (MIC), Oona Frawley's Flight (2014) & Jenny Erpenbeck's Go Went Gone (2015): Hospitality and Ageing Masculinity in Migration Narratives Linda Shortt (Maynooth), Hermann Kinder’s Mein Melaten and the Art of Living to Death
16.50-17.00 Concluding Remarks