Aging, Ethics and Spirituality
Lecture Series

Co-sponsored by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture and the Gerontology Studies Program
 

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - Aging, Ethics and Spirituality Lecture Series - "The Morality of Growing Old." Thomas R. Cole, the Beth and Toby Grossman Professor and Director of the McGovern Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, and Professor of Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University. Among his many publications, he is author of The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America (Cambridge University Press, 1992) which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. 4:00 PM, Rehm Library, Smith Hall.

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Past Lectures in the Series

January 28 , 2004 - Susan H. McFadden, "Growing Old Together: Sources of Meaning in Relationality and Reciprocity " Susan McFadden is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. 7:00 PM, Rehm Library.

Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - Susan A. Eisenhandler, "Keeping the Faith in Late Life" 7:00 PM, Hogan 519.
Susan A. Eisenhandler is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, Waterbury. Her research explores people's personal engagement with religion, and how religious belief is sustained and sometimes changes over the life course. Her lecture will focus on her most recent study of how faith is a feature of identity and of late life and is based on her most recent book.

February 11, 2002 - Helen Black, "She Cried, He Cried?: Gender Differences in Elders' Expressions of Suffering."  7:00 PM, Rehm Library, Smith Hall.
Helen Black, a researcher at the Philadelphia Geriatric Center, will speak on gender, aging and suffering.  Black, a commanding qualitative researcher,   has written among other works, Old Souls: Aged Women, Poverty, and the Experience of God , NY Aldine de Gruter, 2000 (with Robert Rubinstein) and "Jake's Story: A Middle-Aged, Working-Class Man's Physical and Spiritual Journey Toward Death" (Qualitative Health Research, 11, 293-307, 2001).