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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History

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New week, Old English!
Today our featured new book is "The Life Course in Old English #Poetry" by @hattiesoper.bsky.social who examines the linear & unruly paths thru human, nonhuman & more-than-human lives in #OldEnglish poems

#LiteraryStudies #AgeingStudies #AgeStudies #EnglishPoetry #MiddleAges

Holding Harriet Soper's book "The Life Course in Old English Poetry" in front of a wall overgrown with ivy or a similar green leafy plant

July 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM

ENAS

@enas-agestudies.bsky.social

4th joint #ENAS & # NANAS conference in #ageingstudies begins tomorrow in Lleida! @nanetworkinaging.bsky.social @tcastrentu.bsky.social @socbarb.bsky.social @nicoledalmer.bsky.social @evatri.bsky.social and many more will present their research! Stay tuned!

April 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History

@libraryaac.bsky.social

#VictorianStudies #Workshop #AgeingStudies in the Humanities / #EnglishLiterature

Sandra Dinter @sandradinter.bsky.social · Nov 9

Dear colleagues, you can now register for our next #DACHVictorianists online workshop on "Ageing, Progress, and Decline" to be held on Zoom on 6 December 2024. To attend, please register via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ageing-pro...

DACH Victorianists network: dachvictorianists.blogspot.com

November 14, 2024 at 3:40 PM

Eva-Maria Trinkaus

@evatri.bsky.social

🗣️Join us for our next ENAS Quarterly. The summer edition, on June 11, with Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl and Daniela Koleva on “Ageing East and West: Politics and Poetics”

🌼 #aging #agingstudies #slavicstudies #ageing #ageingstudies @enas-agestudies.bsky.social

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May 26, 2026 at 1:27 PM

College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr

@college-uaruhr.bsky.social

Our former fellow Tannistha Samanta published this article about midlife #motherhood, reflecting on the results of the study she worked on during her fellowship. She interviewed (working) women in Germany who underwent assisted reproductive interventions in their 40s.

#Sociology #AgeingStudies #IVF

Tannistha Samanta @tannisthas.bsky.social · Nov 11

I write on the cultural anatomy of midlife motherhood. This work was developed during my stint at the
@college-uaruhr.bsky.social

The Society Pages @thesocietypages.bsky.social · Nov 11

The average age for first-time mothers is continuing to increase around the world. Read our new article by @tannisthas.bsky.social at FLAME University to learn more about research on how women try to balance professional and/or reproductive productivity.

Midlife Motherhood:
🔗 bit.ly/3JExnIF 🔗

November 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History

@libraryaac.bsky.social

What were the impact & roles of older people in Black communities during slavery & emancipation? "Black Elders" by Frederick C. Knight examines them in the contexts of everyday #BlackHistory & #ageing

#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #AmericanHistory #BlackStudies #AgeingStudies #AgeStudies #History