International Women's Day Event
Keep your diary clear for our International Women’s Day event in All Hallows in PG09 at 10.30am on Wednesday March 8th.
We are honoured to have Dr. Lucie Vidovicova from the University of Masaryk Czech Republic visiting us to make a presentation “Youth in a Box" and Dr. Mel Duffy from DCU to take part in a panel discussion.
Youth from a little box? How is anti-ageing industry challenging the ageing in women of all ages?
Ageing is the greatest achievement of humanity: we age because we do not die prematurely. Yet it is still not accepted as something to "look forward to". This is mainly due to low levels of health, but also to the social stigma of old age and its visuality. Being old or even just "looking old" is a source of gendered disadvantages. Anti-ageing is an umbrella term for a system with many actors, goals, and levels that seek to slow, stop, reverse, or at least mask ageing. By mapping the system, we draw attention to the social inequalities built into how and to whom anti-ageing offers its solutions and look for neuralgic points where (primarily female) bodies are disciplined and subordinated. We identify key actors attempting to change/improve the status quo and suggest leverage points ideally leading to a state of 'equal bodies'.
Dr. Lucie Vidovićová
Mgr. Lucie Vidovićová, PhD. is a sociologist and social gerontologist. Her long-term research interests include sociology of ageing, gerotechnology, active ageing, ageism, and social exclusion. She is also involved in research projects in the field of the environmental gerontology, social policy, labour market, family, lifelong learning. She conducts research for national as well as European bodies and works as a consultant on a number of implementation projects. Lucie also cooperates with different governmental and NGO bodies in the field of senior advocacy. She was part of the UNECE Task Force for Ageing-related statistics and serves as a Vice-president on the Executive Committee of RC 11 Sociology of Aging at the International Sociological Association. Recent projects she has been involved in as a principal investigator include those on age discrimination, ageing in big cities and in rural areas, the issue of role overload in later life, social exclusion from social relationships, the use of humanoid robots for the active ageing community programmes and elder abuse and neglect. She is a part of the expert advisory group of the Minister for Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic since 2022.
Dr. Mel Duffy
Dr. Mel Duffy is Assistant Professor in Sociology and Sexuality Studies in the School of Nursing Psychotherapy & Community Health, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. She teaches courses in sociology and sexuality studies at both undergraduate and graduate level. Mel's research interests include (1) Sexuality research; (2) Experiences of LGBTQI across the lifespan (3) Methodologically the use of hermeneutical phenomenology to understand everyday life experiences; (4) LGBTQI health research and the effects of health and illness on the individual’s participation in society. Inequalities in health and (5) Issues of inclusion and diversity in society.
The day promises to be interesting, provocative, and engaging. All are welcome to take part and refreshments will be provided.
Please let us know you are coming here.