Prof. dr. Willem Elias, decaan van de Faculteit Psychologie en Educatiewetenschappen en

Prof. dr. Dominique Verté, vice-vakgroepvoorzitter van de Educatiewetenschappen

nodigen U graag uit voor het gastcollege:

are pleased to invite you to a guest lecture :

“Kritische gerontologie.

Reflecties over toekomstige beleidsperspectieven en fundamentele

concepten”

“Critical gerontology. Reflections about future policies and fundamental concepts”

Prof. dr. Chris Phillipson, Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology, at the University of Keele, UK

In zijn lezing zal hij ingaan op de oorsprong, actuele thema's en toekomstperspectieven

van de kritische gerontologie.

The lecture will be divided into three main parts; first, the main phases in the study of ageing

- from the mid-twentieth to the early twenty-first century- will be reviewed. Second, the

lecture will examine the dominant strands in critical gerontology, namely: political economy,

cumulative advantage/disadvantage theory, humanistic perspectives and cultural gerontology.

Finally, the lecture will address key issues facing studies in ageing at the present time,

notably those dealing with relationships between generations and questions relating to the

impact of globalisation on the welfare state and related institutions.

Prof. dr. Jan Baars, Professor of Interpretive Gerontology at the University for Humanistics in Utrecht, NL

In zijn lezing zal hij ingaan op tijdsbegrippen en Habermas' opvatting van de leefwereld in

verhouding tot de systeemwereld.

In his lecture he will focus on concepts of time and Habermas's concept of the life world in

relation to the systems world.

Praktisch – Practical information When : Vrijdag - Friday 21 mei-May 2010, 10u-12u

Where : Campus Oefenplein - Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Pleinlaan 2 – 1050

Brussel, Etterbeek : Gebouw - Building D, zaal - room D 0.05

Gratis deelname – free entry

Chris Phillipson, PhD, is Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology, at the

University of Keele, UK. He received his Ph.D from Durham University in 1977. Chris established

the Department of Applied Social Studies and Social Work at Keele in 1988 and headed the

Department until 1996. He has been Dean of Research for the Faculty of Social Sciences and

served as a Pro- Vice Chancellor for the University (2005-2009). He was also founding Director

(1986-1997) of the Centre for Social Gerontology at Keele and former President of the British

Society of Gerontology. His research interests have focused on family and community life in old

age, problems of social exclusion, and issues relating to urbanisation and migration. He has

published extensively on age-related matters and his books include:

- Reconstructing old age/ (Sage, 1998)

- Social theory and social ageing/ (with Carroll Estes and Simon Biggs)

- McGraw-Hill, 2003), /Social networks and social/ /exclusion/ (co-edited, 2004), Ageing,

globalisation and inequality/ (co-edited, Baywood,2006)

- Futures of old age/ (co-edited, Sage, 2006).

- He is the co-editor (with Dale Dannefer) of the forthcoming Sage /Handbook of Social

Gerontology

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Jan Baars is Hoogleraar in de Interpretatieve Gerontologie aan de Universiteit voor Humanistiek te

Utrecht. Vanuit zijn academische achtergrond in de wijsbegeerte en de sociale wetenschappen

heeft hij een omvangrijk oeuvre gepubliceerd over ouder worden en leven in de tijd. Zijn meeste

recente publicatie is een overzicht van filosofische teksten over ouder worden, vanaf de Pre-

Socraten tot hedendaagse denkers, geredigeerd samen met Joep Dohmen: "De Kunst van het

Ouder Worden" (480 pp.,Amsterdam: Ambo, Maart 2010 - zie ook http://www.janbaars.nl.)

Jan Baars is Professor of Interpretive Gerontology at the University for Humanistics in Utrecht, The

Netherlands. From his academic background in Philosophy and Social Theory he has written

extensively about aging and living in time. His most recent publication is a collection of

philosophical texts about aging, from Pre-Socratics to contemporary thinkers, co-edited with Joep

Dohmen: "De Kunst van het Ouder Worden" (480 pp.,Amsterdam: Ambo, March 2010 - See also

http://www.janbaars.nl.)