Aging & Society Seminar Series: Dr. K. Ellison
- Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Building: Bata Library
Room: BL 411
From wrinkle creams to blood transfusions, the anti-aging industry is a multi-billion dollar enterprise that has expanded far beyond the reach of cosmetics and facelifts to include everything from workout routines and dietary supplements to stem cell research and DNA sequencing. The desire to look, feel, function and think younger is an unstated yet inescapable given in the cultural landscape of successful aging and healthy living.
In her talk, Dr. Ellison will draw on a decade of research on anti-aging technology to discuss what it means to take a communications approach to the topic of aging and why we need to think critically about the tools we employ to make sense of our aging bodies. She suggests that although representation is only one factor in the lived realities of what it means to grow old, it plays a fundamental role in shaping the kinds of lives we see as worth living, and bodies we see as worth inhabiting.
CONTACT INFO:
aging@trentu.ca, 705-748-1011 x 6440
Posted on November 8, 2019