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8 December 2022: "Ageing in the Shadow of Revolution"
Keynote Lecture by Prof. Dr. David G. Troyansky (Brooklyn College & City University of New York) in the framework of the conference Social and Cultural History of Old Age in the Soviet Union, 1945-1991
Keynote Lecture: "Ageing in the Shadow of Revolution"
by professor David G. Troyansky (Brooklyn College & City University of New York)
Thursday, December 8th 2022 at 5:30 pm, Department of History, Seminar room 001
The keynote takes part in the framework of the conference "The Social and Cultural History of Ageing in the Soviet Union, 1945-1991" at the University of Basel on. December 8th and 9th 2022. For more information: https://sovietageing.com/social-and-cultural-conference/
Contact: botakoz.kassymbekova@clutterunibas.ch
The conference “Social and Cultural History of Old Age in the Soviet Union, 1945-1991” invites proposals for papers that deal with social and cultural aspects of growing old in the post-WWII Soviet Union. We are interested in both individual and collective everyday experiences of cultural narratives about and official policies towards old age. The history of Soviet Communism has hitherto largely focused on younger adults and children. Less is known about how Soviet socialism shaped old age and was experienced by older adults in different parts of the USSR. We are interested in addressing the following questions: What cultural roles were ascribed to older persons and how did they appropriate, evade and reconfigure these roles? What role did gender, religion, social background and cultures play? How did old age in rural areas differ from those in towns and the cities? How were old people studied and how did older people narrate their lives? How did the experience of war, collectivization, urbanization and industrialization change growing old in the Soviet Union? What role did family play in the lives of older people and how did intergenerational relations influence growing old?
The conference is part of the “Growing Old in the Soviet Union, 1945-1991” project funded by the Wellcome Trust at Liverpool John Moores University and is organised in cooperation with the University of Basel, Switzerland.