Conveners
Multidisciplinary approaches
- Emma-Louise Silva (Universite de Namur)
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Louise Benson James (Ghent University)12/12/25, 4:00 PM
This paper looks at two bestselling novels – Marie Corelli’s The Young Diana (1918) and Gertrude Atherton’s Black Oxen (1923) – both of which feature women who regain their youth through the power of science. One British and one American, these novels, which we could call science fiction romance, thematise scientific anti-aging technologies, responding to the rejuvenation craze of the 1910s...
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Ester Gubert (University of Trento), Dr Thomas Van de Putte (King’s College London)12/12/25, 4:30 PM
In memory studies in the humanities and qualitative social sciences, there is a lack of research on memories of ageing. This is counterintuitive, because these memories rely on bigger cultural meanings of ability and age, on meaning-making within groups (e.g. the family), they are highly affective, often inform future imagination, and are key to policy debates. These are all cultural and...
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Robert Pickett (University of Westminster)12/12/25, 5:00 PM
Alex Pickett
PhD Researcher
University of Westminster
r.pickett@westminster.ac.ukAmnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI), generally, is diagnosed when a person’s memory range is below that of what is expected of people their own age. This involves a steep decline in memory function, usually in a person who is later in life, that does not otherwise affect basic cognitive skills. Yet,...
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Muhammad Abdullah (Government College University Lahore)12/12/25, 5:30 PM
Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017) offers a fertile site for interrogating the intersections of aging, gender, and marginality in transcultural contexts. Literary gerontology has often been dominated by Western paradigms, where narratives of decline and the male aging experience receive disproportionate attention. In contrast, Roy’s narrative broadens the scope of...
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