Oxford’s First Conference
on
Ageing in Latin America:
Developing the Research Agenda
2 - 3 July 2009
University of Oxford
Manor Road Building
Oxford OX1 3UQ
PROGRAMME
Thursday, July 2, 2009
9.00 – 10.00
Registration
10.00 – 10.15
Welcome: Sarah Harper, Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing and
Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford
10-15 – 10.45
George Leeson, Deputy Director, Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of
Oxford: The future of old age in Brazil and Mexico: results from the Global
Ageing Survey
10.45 – 11.15
Luis Leopold, Dean, School of Psychology, University of the Republic,
Udelar, Montevideo, Uruguay : Psychogerontology in Uruguay (La
Psicogerontología en Uruguay - Perspectiva actual y balance)
11.15 – 11.45
Tea/coffee
11.45 – 12.15
Blanca López La Vera, Professor of the University of Experience, Pontificia
Universidad Catolica, San Miguel, Perú: The transition between leisure and
empowerment: university education for older people (La transición entre
ocupar el tiempo libre y empoderar: perspectivas de la educacion
universitaria dirigida al adulto mayor)
12.15 – 12.45
Marcos Jardim Freire, Director, Institute of Psychology, Federal University
of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Rio de Janeiro: Copacabana and the third age (Rio
de Janeiro: Copacabana e 3a. idade - relato de um quadro)
12.45 – 14.30
Lunch
14.30 – 15.00
Rita de Cássia da Silva Oliveira, Associated Professor, Department of
Education, State University of Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil: The role of
education in old age in post-modernity - possibilities and challenges (O papel
da educação na terceira idade na pós modernidade: possibilidades e desafios)
2
15.00 - 15.30
Carmen D. Sánchez Salgado, Full Professor, Graduate School of Social
Work, San Jose de Puerto Rico: The social construction of ageing: A
Comparative Analysis and Perspectives from Mexico, Chile and Puerto Rico
(Construcción Social de la Vejez: Un análisis y perspectiva comparativa de
México, Chile y Puerto Rico)
15.30 – 16.00
Tea/coffee
16.00 – 16.30
Armando Barrientos, Senior Research Fellow, BWPI, Manchester
University: Old age, poverty and public policy in Latin America.
16.30
Closing remarks: Alejandro Klein, Professor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Friday, July 3, 2009
09.30 – 10.00
Ricardo Iacub, Associate Professor, Faculty of Psychology, Universidad de
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Post-modern narratives about eroticism and ageing
(Narrativas posmodernas del erotismo en la vejez)
10.00 – 10.30
M. Soledad Herrera Ponce, Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, and
Professor Rosita Kornfeld, Adjunct Director of Continuous Education,
Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile: Ageing and well-being:
predictors (Calidad de vida en la vejez: factores predictores)
10.30 – 11.00
Alejandro Klein, Brazil: New social and familial developments - new forms
of relationships between grandparents and grandchildren (Nuevas tendencias
sociales y familiares. Nuevas formas de relación entre Abuelos-Nietos)
11.00 – 11.30
Tea/coffee
11.30 – 12.00
Veronica Montes de Oca, Social Research Institute, National Autonomous
University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico DF: Migration, family and social
networks for older persons in Mexico
12.00 - 12.30
Sylvia Beales, Head of Strategic Alliances, HelpAge International, London:
Working with older people in Latin America
12.30
Round-up discussion: George W. Leeson, Oxford
13.00
Lunch and close
To register, please download the registration form:
http://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/research/regions/latin-america/larna
This conference is sponsored by the British Academy