Ageing Society, Ageing Culture?

VI. Annual Conference of the UNeECC jointly organized with the University of Maribor and the Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI). ‘Ageing Society, Ageing Culture?’. The conference will be held in Maribor, Slovenia on 18-19 October 2012.
We are delighted to announce that the University Network of the European Capitals of Culture will hold its VI. General Assembly and Annual Conference jointly organized with
the University of Maribor and the Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI).
Preliminary Programme
Thursday 18 October 2012
Session A: The effect of ageing on modern society
    Tanja Verheyen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel: Demotion and ageing: to what extent can demotion be a strategic HR tool to avoid an early exit of older workers from the labour market?
    Klaus Posch - Monika Altenreiter, University of Applied Sciences JOANNEUM, Graz: How is ageing addressed in higher education?
    Ayse Akyol - Aynur Akata - Ayse Fildis, Trakya University, Edirne: Cultural Factors Affecting Consumer Behavior: Mature Consumers as a Subculture Group
Session C: The ECoC coming of age - Financial and cultural sustainability of the ECoC programme
    Tuuli Lähdesmäki, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä: Aims, Impacts and Reception of Urban Regeneration in European Capitals of Culture: The Case of Tallinn2011
    Marian Goldinne – Marie-Hélene Poggi - Jean-Christophe Sevin, Université de Provence; Université d’Avignon; Marseille-Provence 2013 and the “Creative Neighborhoods”. Understanding the impacts of the ECoC on local cultures and neighborhoods
    Graziella Vella, Valletta 2018 – European Capital of Culture Office, Valetta: The effect of culture-led regeneration on local community identity: The case of Valletta.
Session A: The effect of ageing on modern society
    Giovanni Bevilacqua, Lessius University College, Antwerp: Language and culture in the special setting of the home for elderly people.
    Omar Aly Ramzy, Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development, Cairo: Ageing and Online Social Communities – Cross Cultural Analysis
    Krisztián Széll, University of Pécs, Pécs: Educational system in an ageing society
Session B: The effect of culture on ageing
    Bill Chambers, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool: Old Age, Dementia and Everton Football Club
    Joost van Vliet, The Hague University, Hague: Models for the aged man: Novel personages, a mirror for real life at old age or just projections towards elder age.
    Nick Owen, Aspire Trust Ltd., Wallasey: Making it matter: can the arts significantly contribute to addressing health inequalities?
Friday 19 October 2012
Session A: The effect of ageing on modern society
    Ewa Matuska, Hanseatic Academy of Management in Slupsk, Slupsk: Age management as a strategic tool for elastic organization.
    Eriko Ogihara-Schuck, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund: Germans’ Humor about Aging: Ambiguities in the 21st-Century Variations of Dinner for One
    Eszter Barakonyi, University of Pécs, Pécs: Being in the middle- over 50, but before the retiring age. - The situation of these special age-group in Hungary
    Serena Freni Sterrantino, University of Catania, Catania: The Ageing of Population between Reforms and Consciousness.
    Inara Dundure, University of Latvia, Riga: Older people and the labour market
Session C:  The ECoC coming of age - Financial and cultural sustainability of the ECoC programme
    Maja Lamza-Maronić - Jerko Glavaš - Igor Mavrin, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek, Osijek: Towards a New Model of Cultural Management – The European Capital of Culture Programme
    Georg Friedrich Simet, Neuss University for International Business, Neuss: The Impact of the EU’s Ageing Societies on the “European Agenda for Culture”
    Gyöngyi Pozsgai - Tímea Németh, University of Pécs, Pécs: The impact of the ECoC title on international student recruitment
    Katalin Füzér, University of Pécs, Pécs: Urban development beyond the ECoC programme. The local project class and local partnerships: allies, rivals or foes?
Session A: The effect of ageing on modern society
    Filipovič Hrast Maša - Hlebec Valentina, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana: International solidarity in community in Slovenia
    Ineta Luka - Janis Eriks Niedritis, Turiba University, Riga: Intergenerational learning as a means of increasing social capital within the lifelong learning context
    Raluca Calin - Damien Malinas, University of Avignon, Avignon:  The role of seniors in the transmission of culture. The example of public European festivals of theater and film.
    Szabolcs Zalay, University of Pécs, Pécs: The challenge of growing adult
Session B: The effect of culture on ageing
    Ulla Kriebernegg, University of Graz, Graz: Approaching the Exit Lines: Intersections of Time and Space in Nursing Home Narratives. A Cultural Gerontological Analysis.
    Sarah Thornton, Manchester University, Manchester: The reciprocal benefit of culture and ageing: giving and taking in Collective Encounters’ Third Age Theatre
    Jonas Ericson - Martin Gustafson, Umea University, Umea: The role of culture in an ageing population
    Ion M. Tomus, ’Lucian Blaga University’, Sibiu: Theatre of the Absrud and Its Characters: The Effect of Ageing in Ionesco's plays
Session A: The effect of ageing on modern society
    Anna Bajtai, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest: An outlook. The Hungarians in Vojvodina: language of instruction and education
    Witold Ostafinski, The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow, Cracow: Ageism in Europe
    Vladimiras Grazulis - Ilona Kojelyte, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius: The dimension of organizational culture in socialization of new employees (the Lithuanian case)
Session C:  The ECoC coming of age - Financial and cultural sustainability of the ECoC programme
    Adriana Galvani, University of Bologna, Bologna: New cities for a changing society.
    Réka Heidenreich, University of Pécs, Pécs: The city of Essen in the multicultural Ruhr region after 2010
    Vlatka Kalafatić, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek, Osijek: The influence of the title “European City of Culture” in the international recognition of the city of Osijek.