Elections of the NEW RC11 Executive Board (2010-2014)

Members of the next RC11 Executive Board (who will serve from 2010-2014) will be elected at the Business Meeting at the ISA World Congress in Gothenburg (on 14th July 2010).

There will be elections in 2010 for 6 Officer positions on the Executive Manage-ment Group (EMG) and elections for ‘up to 12 Officers-at-Large’. The elections will be for the following RC11 Officer positions:

President (currently Sara Arber)
Vice President (currently Anne Martin-Matthews)
Vice President (currently Lars Andersson)
Treasurer (currently Anne Martin-Matthews, although it is proposed that this po-sition should not be shared in future)
Secretary (currently Susan Feldman)
Newsletter Editor (currently Andreas Hoff)

The RC11 Executive Management Group (EMG) met at the IAGG Congress in Paris on 8th July, and agreed the following procedure for the next RC11 elections:

1. In February 2010, a request will be sent by email to the whole RC11 membership for nominations for EMG positions and for the 12 ‘Officers-at-Large’ by 10th May. This request for nominations will also be circulated in the Winter RC11 Newsletter and by reminder email in mid-April, request-ing nominations by 10th May 2010.
2. Each nomination should include a short paragraph about the candidate for nomination. Candidates for nomination must be paid up members of RC11 and the ISA, and the person nominating should also be a paid up member of RC11 and the ISA.
3. A list of the nominees for EMG Officer positions and for RC11 Officers-at-Large will be circulated to the RC11 membership by early June 2010.
4. Any RC11 member who is not planning to attend the 2010 World Con-gress will be invited to send in their votes for EMG Officers and RC11 Offi-cers-at-Large by 1st July to the Secretary (Susan Feldman).
5. The election of EMG Officers and RC11 Officers-at-Large will take place at the RC11 Business Meeting in Gothenburg by a vote of RC11 members present at the meeting. In addition, any votes cast in advance by RC11 members not attending the World Congress will be counted together with the votes cast at the RC11 Business Meeting.

If you have any comments about these election procedures, please let me know.

Sara Arber
President RC11
 

RC11 Programme framework for XVIIth ISA World Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010 NOW AVAILABLE!

The Call for Papers can be found here:

http://www.rc11-sociology-of-aging.org/call-papers-rc11-sessions-during-...

The following sessions were accepted (more details under Conferences/Programmes):

1.         Topic: Growing Older in Transnational Communities

Session organisers: Christina Victor,  University of Reading, UK -  c.r.victor@reading.ac.uk; Wendy Martin, University of Reading, UK -W.P.Martin@reading.ac.uk and Vanessa Burholt, University of Swansea, UK -v.burholt@swansea.ac.uk

2.         Topic:  Gender, Ageing and the Body

Symposium organisers:  Laura Hurd Clarke, University of British Columbia, Canada - laura.hurd.clarke@ubc.ca  and Julia Twigg, University of Kent, UK - J.M.Twigg@kent.ac.uk

3.         Topic:  Cultural Representations of the Ageing Body

Symposium organisers:   Wendy Martin, University of Reading, UK - W.P.Martin@reading.ac.uk  and  Julia Twigg, University of Kent, UK - J.M.Twigg@kent.ac.uk

4.         Topic:  Aging of the Aged: The Case of the Oldest Old (80+)

Session organiser:   P. K. B. Nayar,   Centre for Gerontological Studies,
Kochulloor, Trivandrum 695 011, India - pkbnayar@rediffmail ; pkbnayar@yahoo.co.in

5.         Topic:  Ageing Societies and the Welfare State
Session organiser:    Kathrin Komp, Department of Sociology, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands -  k.komp@fsw.vu.nl

6.         Topic:  Caregiving and Carework

Session organiser:   Anne Martin Matthews,   University of British Columbia, Canada  - amm@exchange.ubc.ca ; amm@interchange.ubc.ca

7.         Topic:   The Use of Technology in Informal Care

Session organiser:   Andreas Hoff, Oxford Institute of Aging, Univeristy of Oxford,  UK - andreas.hoff@ageing.ox.ac.uk

8.         Topic: The Intersection of Age, Gender and Ethnicity: Implications for Studies of Old Age and Elderly Care

Session organiser:  Sandra Torres,  Linköping University,   Sweden  - Sandra.torres@isv.liu.se

9.         Topic:  Grandparenting and Inter-Generational Dynamics

Session organisers:  Virpi Timonen & Ciara O'Dwyer,   Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland - timonenv@tcd.ie

10.   Topic:   Older People’s Interest Representation and the Politics of Old Age

Session organisers:   Martha Doyle and Virpi Timonen,   Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland  -  martha.doyle@tcd.ie      timonenv@tcd.ie  

11.       Topic: Media and Ageing: Representation and Consumption

Session organiser:  Lucie Vidovićová, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic -  Lucie.Vidovic@seznam.cz

12.       Topic: Ageism: Structures and Agency   

Session organisers:  Lars Andersson,  Linköping University, Sweden  -Lars.Andersson@cns.ki.se   and Lucie Vidovićová,  Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic -  Lucie.Vidovic@seznam.cz

13.       Topic: Challenges facing Researchers in Ageing in 2010

Session organiser:   Susan Feldman,  Healthy Ageing Research Unit, Primary Care Research, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia - Susan.Feldman@med.monash.edu.au

14.       Topic: Differences and Similarities in the Pace and Consequences of Population Ageing in Developed and Developing Countries

Session Organiser:   László Kovács,    Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Oita-ken, Japan  - laszlo.kovacs.1966@gmail.com

15:       Topic:  Older Workers and Retirement: Conflicting Trends

Session organiser:   John Williamson, Department of Sociology, Centre for Retirement Research, Boston College, USA  -  jbw@bc.edu   

16.       Joint session between RC11 (Sociology of Aging) and RC55 (Social Indicators) from within the RC11 allocation - Topic:  Worlds of Difference: Qualities of Life for Older People in Developing and Developed Countries

Session Organisers:   Valerie Moller (RC55) (President: International Society for Quality of Life Studies), Rhodes University, South Africa  - V.Moller@ru.ac.za   and Jaco Hoffman  (RC11) Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford, UK  -jacobus.hoffman@ageing.ox.ac.uk ; jaconda@iafrica.com

17.       Joint session between RC55 (Social Indicators) and RC11 (Sociology of Aging) from within the RC55 allocation - Topic:  Older People’s Contributions to Societal Well-being

Session Organisers:   Wolfgang Glatzer (RC55),  Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany  - Glatzer@soz.uni-frankfurt.de    and  Sara Arber (RC11),  University of Surrey, Guildford, UK - S.Arber@surrey.ac.uk

18.       Joint session between RC13 (Sociology of Leisure) and RC11 (Sociology of Aging) from within the RC13  allocation -  Topic:  Aging Populations and Leisure

Session Organisers:   Ishwar Modi (RC13),  India Institute of Social Sceinces, Jaipur, India   - iiiss2005modi@yahoo.co.in       and  Sara Arber (RC11),  University of Surrey, Guildford, UK - S.Arber@surrey.ac.uk

19.       Joint session between RC10 (Sociology of Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management) and RC11 (Sociology of Aging) from within the RC10  allocation - Topic:  Aging well and its' societal determinants in international perspective

Session Organisers:   Julia Rozanova (RC10), Brown University, Canada - Julia_Rozanova@brown.edu and Andreas Hoff (RC11),  University of Oxfod, UK - andreas.hoff@ageing.ox.ac.uk