Videos

Videos from the seminar "Ageing and Gender"

Videos from Professor George Rousseau's annual seminar, September 2019, at the University of Bergen.

An Old Woman ('The Ugly Duchess'), Quinten Massys

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The National Gallery, London

Hovedinnhold

Professor George Rousseau's Annual Seminar Series 2019 engage the past as well as the present and aim to historicize representations of masculine and feminine ageing.

To see the full programme, click here.

Wencke Mühleisen - Cultural menopause- Love and sex in the time of infertility

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Universitetet i Bergen

Jill Halstead - I didn´t think little old ladies wrote music like that - Gender and aging against the machine

George Rousseau - Male ageing in millennial American literature

George Rousseau- Female ageing in millennial American literature

George Rousseau - British Literature and ageing in the long 18th century

Peter Svare Valeur - Romanticism as an Ageing Woman (in Heinrich Heine and others)

Margery Vibe Skagen - Ageing women in Baudelaire’s poetry

Gunn Inger Sture - The sterilised rose and the tempest-beaten rock- A portrait of an ageing couple in Proust’s In Search of Lo

Vanessa Etondi - What about the old Africana woman in Léonora Miano’s “Shadow and Light” cycle-

Matthew Landers - Infernal Wisdom Born from Age and Experience in Olga Tokarczuk’s novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the

20.02.2020