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Announcing the Debut of a new Area at the Boston PCA/ACA Conference–Senior Culture–Seniors and Aging in Popular Culture
We are starting out with two sessions and hope to generate interest among prospective participants for many more panels in the future. Come join us in Boston and lend us support.
Mission Statement–The purpose of this area will be to sponsor panels, often comparative in nature across regions and countries, on the life-styles, mores, leisure, organizations, depiction, and treatment of those aged 55 and over both in the past and the present.
To submit ideas for presentations next year and for more information contact:
Area Chair--
Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr., Ph D
faug@loc.gov
Boston sessions–
Friday, April 6, 12:30----2:00 p.m. Connecticut Room, Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel
458. Senior Culture I: Learning, Literature, & Health
Chair: Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr., Library of Congress
The Haunting of Mrs. Astor: Elder Abuse
Elizabeth Smith Podnieks, Canadian Network for the Prevention
of Elder Abuse
Is Younger Necessarily Better?: The Case of Older Adult Foreign Language Learners
Patricia Andrew, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
The Senior Sleuth: Age & Youth in the Corpus
of Dame Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple
Marja Mogk, California Lutheran University
Friday, April 6, 2:30----4:00 p.m. Connecticut Room, Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel
505. Senior Culture II: Active Oldsters, Multiple Careers, &
Re-Inventing the Second Stage of Life
Chair: Richard D. Hess, Indiana University-Purdue University
Senior Power in an Age of Youth: The Dynamic Maturity Pavilion
at the New York World's Fair, 1964-1965
Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr., Library of Congress
Geriatric Rockers Rule: Case Studies of Rock Musicians' Continuing Popularity Past Middle Age
Edith Thomas, Independent Scholar
Holiday Corporation and Senior Citizen Popular Culture
Gene Mueller, Texas A & M University
Elder Politicians and Rhetorical Justifications: The Example
of Jimmy Carter
Richard D. Hess, Indiana University-Purdue University
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