Join us for an online talk by Kathleen Woodward, "The Dominance of Numbers, Gifts from the Arts: Antidotes to Ageism in the Anthropocene"
WHEN: Dec 11, 6pm
WHERE: Online
This event is cohosted by the DAAD Project "European Societal Challenges in German Culture: Exploring Ageing and Climate Change in Tandem" and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care
Kathleen Woodward is Lockwood Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Washington where she served as director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities from 2000-2025. She is the author of Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions (2009), Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions (1991), and At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams (1980). She is also the editor or coeditor of three interdisciplinary collections of essays on aging from the perspective of the humanities: Figuring Age: Women—Bodies—Generations (1999), Memory and Desire: Aging—Literature—Psychoanalysis (1986), and Aging and the Elderly: Humanistic Perspectives in Gerontology (1978). Her recent essays have focused on aging in the Anthropocene and the work of the video artist Cecelia Condit.