SAACY will host the 2025 SLSAeu annual conference, ‘The Lifespan: Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course from the Medical Humanities, the Health Sciences and Age Studies’.

The three-day conference will be held at King’s College London. We hope to provide limited hybrid options with a strong preference for papers to be presented in person. We are keen to foster conversations across disciplines within individual panels, encouraging contributions on lifespan/lifecourse approaches to ageing from disciplines such as Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Dementia Studies, Disability Studies, Epidemiology, Evolutionary Science and Medicine, Gender Studies, Geriatrics, Gerontology, Health Economics, Languages and Literatures, Narrative Medicine, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Postgenomic Sciences, Psychiatry, and Public Health.

The Call for Papers and further information on fees and bursaries will be circulated soon.

Confirmed plenary speakers and round table discussants include:

Sally Chivers, Trent University, Canada

Ulrike Draesner, Leipzig University, Germany

Des O’Neill, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Susan Pickard, University of Liverpool, UK

Oliver Robinson, Imperial College London, UK

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Columbia University, USA

Aagje Swinnen, Maastricht University, Netherlands