Forthcoming Event
Age and Power: The Making of Ageism
Age and Power: The Making of Ageism
From accumulation to power: how and by whom age relations and inequalities are produced and reproduced
About the Speaker
Professor Toni Calasanti — Virginia Tech, United States
Toni Calasanti is a Professor of Sociology. Her research on the intersections of age, gender and social inequalities has appeared in several journals as well as in the books Gender, Social Inequalities, and Aging (2001), Age Matters: Re-Aligning Feminist Thinking (2006), and Nobody’s Burden: Lessons from the Great Depression on the Struggle for Old-Age Security (2011). Recent explorations of the intersectional approach and of age, gender and sexuality lay the foundation for her present NIH-funded research on same-sex partner caregiving. LGBT issues in later life, especially in relation to care work and to bodies and health.
Convenor: Prof Jaco Hoffman
Please note that this is a Hybrid event. Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89133708250
This event is part of a seminar series:
Michaelmas 2026 Seminar Series: When Age Differentiation Becomes Age Inequality: Rethinking Ageism
Ageing is universal. But what age comes to mean — and the consequences those meanings have — is socially shaped. This eight-week online seminar series from the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing rethinks ageism across the life course, encompassing younger as well as older people while recognising that their experiences, structural positions and relations of power may differ. ...
Event Details
05 November 2026 14:00 - 15:00

