Forthcoming Event

Idealised Ageing: The Reproduction of Ageism

From institutional practice to cultural reproduction: how positive ideals can create new hierarchies of ageing

About the Speaker

Professor Sarah Lamb — Brandeis University, United States

Sarah Lamb is Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. A cultural and medical anthropologist specializing in aging, she examines everyday life practices and experiences, as well as the medical, legal, and cultural discourses and assumptions that shape them, drawing on ethnographic research in both India and the United States. She received her undergraduate degree in religious studies from Brown University and her PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago. She subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in medical anthropology and sociocultural gerontology at the University of California, San Francisco.

Lamb is the author of numerous articles and books and is editor of the Rutgers University Press series Global Perspectives on Aging, a series which includes Lamb’s edited volume Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession: Global Perspectives. With support from the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program, Lamb is currently writing a book on her fieldwork in North America and India titled I’d Rather Be Dead than Old: Visions and Dilemmas of Aging Well. One aim of this research is to help us achieve more realistic and equitable ways of envisioning what it means to age well.

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Convenor:  Prof Jaco Hoffman

Please note that this is a Hybrid event. Zoom:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89133708250

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