IX International Colloquium of the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC)
«Aging and Health: Challenges and Opportunities for Aging Societies»
Dates: June 3-5, 2025
Location: Meeting room, Catalunya campus, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona)
Registration: Registration form (free and open, with limited seating capacity)
Programa: program in PDF
The Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC) is pleased to announce the celebration of its IX International Colloquium, titled "Aging and Health: Challenges and Opportunities for Aging Societies". This event, which will take place from June 3 to 5, 2025, aims to discuss the various challenges faced by societies with aging populations, with a particular focus on health and care from an anti-ageist perspective.
The colloquium will address aging not only from its biological dimensions but also as an existential and complex phenomenon influenced by cultural, social, and political factors. In this context, older adults are not only recipients of care but also active contributors to their communities.
To facilitate a deep and multidisciplinary debate, four working groups have been organized to address the following topics:
- Dementia and psychological disorders in aging
- Deinstitutionalization of health and care
- Precarity in aging and public policies
- Sexuality, love, menopause, and cultural diversity
The ultimate goal of the colloquium is to contribute to the debate on longevity, understood as a space where challenges can be transformed into opportunities for a dignified and fulfilling life in old age.
As in the previous year, we will have the participation of the Red de Antropología Médica y de la Salud (REDAMS) of the Asociación de Antropología del Estado Español (ASAEE), with a coordinating team formed by Elisa Alegre Agís, Maribel Blázquez, Cristina Larrea, and Francisco Ortega, who will kick off the first day.
We have also invited prominent international figures to deliver the keynote lectures that structure the program. Each of them will contribute their expertise to the debate. These are (in order of intervention): Lyat Ayalon, PhD, from Bar Ilan University with the title: "Climate change and Aging: Mental and Social Health from an Intergenerational Perspective"; Virpi Timonen, PhD, from the University of Helsinki with the title: "Reflections on a broader conceptualization of care: Learning from older adults"; and the final lecture by Dolors Comas d'Argemir, PhD, from Universitat Rovira i Virgili with the title: "Aging as a European challenge".
Organizing Committee: Blanca Deusdad / Mabel Gracia
Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC)
