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Across the generations: researching changes, continuities and contexts

Monday, 13 May 2013, 10:30 - 16:30

Michael Young Building, Meeting Rooms 1 & 2, lower ground floor, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
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CCIG Families, Relationships and Communities Research Programme Seminar

This seminar, organised by the FarComm Research Programme, is concerned with the study of generations and intergenerational transmissions. Its aim is to explore the value of ‘generation’ as an analytical tool and how it is used in different disciplines and policy contexts. The seminar will be of methodological, conceptual and theoretical interest to those undertaking studies of personal lives across time and place, and will offer opportunities for discussion, inter alia, of generational identities, collective memory and social change.

Programme

Time Session
10:30-10:45 Tea/Coffee and Registration
10:45-11:00 Introduction: Janet Fink and Jacqui Gabb, FaRComm Research Programme
11:00-12:30 Age, cohort and generation: concepts in life course and biographical research
Prof Ann Nilsen (University of Bergen, Norway)
 
Subjectivity and generational memory in 20th century Britain
Prof Sally Alexander (Goldsmiths, University of London)
12:30-12:45 Discussant
Prof Joanna Bornat (The Open University)
12:45-13:15 Questions and reflections
13:15-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Families and generation
Prof Julia Brannen (Institute of Education, University of London)
 
Sandwich generation: the role of older women at work and home
Dr Dalia Ben-Galim (Associate Director for Families and Work, Institute of Public Policy Research)
15:30-15:45 Discussant
Prof Janet Newman (The Open University)
15:45-16:15 Questions and reflections
16:15-16:30 Tea/coffee

 

Registration

Registration is now closed. If you have any queries please contact Sarah Batt, Research Secretary, E-mail: socsci-ccig-events@open.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0)1908 654704

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