Aging and its Tropes

Health as a Human Right

Panayotis Yatagantzidis presents some tentative definitions of the concept of human rights as delineated in different schools of thought, and moves towards a constitutional cartography of the right to health in nations-members of the European Union. From within that perspective he examines the international protection provided by the Treaty of the EU and the European Declaration of Human Rights and analyzes the existing international legal discourse. He locates the limits of protection provided by the existing legal framework in the EU, and with a commitment to the social welfare state and the principles of Democracy, arrives at a number of conclusions that envelope within them the protection of health.

Project Overview

An overview of the Aging and Its Tropes project, including details on workshops held in 2015 and 2016 and bios of the project participants.

Project Summary: Aging and its Tropes

The team at Columbia University working on the Mellon-funded project on aging, focuses on the study of “aging” as a concern brought together at the interface of elderly experience, care, and questions of social justice, as it brings together the medical and the carceral. Our research and discursive sites, under the title “Aging and its Tropes,” comprise both “complete and total institutions” and non-institutional settings: the arts (narrative, representational, plastic arts, street art, ...

Slideshow (ppt) uploaded by Ioannis Mylonopoulos to Aging and its Tropes | 18 Jun 2016

Old Age and Ageism in Ancient Greece. An Art Historical Perspective

Document (pdf) uploaded by Robert Sladen to Aging and its Tropes | 8 Jun 2016

Sladen, Robert. ADVANCED AGE IN THE CRITICALLY ILL: DOES IT REALLY MATTER?

Lecture notes and references from 15 May 2015 Aging and Its Tropes meeting.

Slideshow (ppt) uploaded by Gyda Swaney to Aging and its Tropes | 7 Jun 2016

Swaney, Gyda. Slides from Native American Elderly's Stress, Coping, and Resilience.

Slides from the 6-7 May 2016 presentation.

Document (pdf) uploaded by Katherine Stefatos to Aging and its Tropes | 6 Jun 2016

Stefatos, Katerina. Slides to Gendered Bodies of Aging: Women Exiles

Slides accompanying the 6-7 May 2016 presentation. Addressing women who were politically active during the Greek resistance to German occupation, during the civil war and, later on, during the 1967-74 military dictatorship. Now in their late 80s or, in the case of the junta dissidents, in their 60s-70s. Politically active women whose participation in various resistance and youth organizations made them subject to political terrorization, imprisonment, persecution, severe torture, ...

Document (Word) uploaded by Katherine Stefatos to Aging and its Tropes | 6 Jun 2016

Stefatos, Katerina. Gendered Bodies of Aging: Women Exiles

Lecture given 6-7 May 2016. Addressing women who were politically active during the Greek resistance to German occupation, during the civil war and, later on, during the 1967-74 military dictatorship. Now in their late 80s or, in the case of the junta dissidents, in their 60s-70s. Politically active women whose participation in various resistance and youth organizations made them subject to political terrorization, imprisonment, persecution, severe torture, ...

Slideshow (ppt) uploaded by Saloni Mathur to Aging and its Tropes | 4 Jun 2016

Saloni Mathur, PPT Presentation

Paper title: Medical Supplies and Haute-Couture: Health, Fashion, & Aging in Contemporary Art

Slideshow (ppt) uploaded by Ann Burack-Weiss to Aging and its Tropes | 3 Jun 2016

Burack-Weiss Ann. Slides to THIS OLD WOMAN: PAINTING AND WRITING THE EMBODIED SELF.

The images that accompany the lecture given 6-7 May, 2016.

Document (Word) uploaded by Ann Burack-Weiss to Aging and its Tropes | 3 Jun 2016

Burack-Weiss, Ann. THIS OLD WOMAN: PAINTING AND WRITING THE EMBODIED SELF.

A lecture given at 6-7 May 2016, "Aging and Its Tropes" workshop.

Document (Word) uploaded by Michael Friedman to Aging and its Tropes | 3 Jun 2016

Friedman, Michael B. ART AND WELL-BEING IN OLD AGE

A lecture given at "Aging and Its Tropes" 6-7 May, 2016.

Document (pdf) uploaded by SOF-Heyman Center to Aging and its Tropes | 1 Jun 2016

Medical Humanities and its Disciplinary Challenges

A guiding document by Neni Panourgia