Jako každý rok i v roce 2021 se bude konat mezinárodní konference Stáří spojuje 2021 v ČSVTS na Novotného lávce 5 v Praze ve dnech 20. a 21. září 2021. Účast na konferenci bude možná jak v prezenční, tak virtuální podobě.

Hlavními tématy letošní konference jsou:

• TÝRÁNÍ A ZANEDBÁVÁNÍ SENIORŮ (EAN) V POBYTOVÝCH SLUŽBÁCH
• DEFINIČNÍ A LEGISLATIVNÍ VYMEZENÍ ŠPATNÉHO ZACHÁZENÍ
• PERSPEKTIVY SOCIÁLNÍHO VYLOUČENÍ ZE VZTAHU A OSAMĚLOST
• VYJEDNÁVÁNÍ O STÁRNUTÍ: KULTURNÍ PŘIZPŮSOBENÍ VYHLÍDCE NA DLOUHÝ ŽIVOT

V rámci konference proběhnou i dva semináře:

TÝRÁNÍ, ZNEUŽÍVÁNÍ A ZANEDBÁVÁNÍ STARŠÍCH DOSPĚLÝCH A NEREGISTROVANÉ POBYTOVÉ SLUŽBY - doc. PhDr. Ludmila Čírtková, CSc., dr. h. c., Mgr. Tereza Hanelová, Mgr. Markéta Kalousková, MUDr. Zdeněk Kalvach, CSc., Mgr. Jan Lorman, Mgr. Monika Šimůnková, Mgr. Terezie Šmídová

OSAMĚLOST JAKO VĚC VEŘEJNÁ NEBO SOUKROMÁ? PŘÍLEŽITOST A LIMITY POLICY INTERVENCE - Mgr. Lucie Vidovićová, Ph.D.;Doc. PhDr. Radka Bužgová, Ph.D.

Mezi zvanými řečníky dále jsou: prof. Simon Biggs (univerzita Melbourne, Austrálie), Dr. Susan Sommers (INPEA, USA), prof. Amanda Phelan ( Triniti Collage Dublin, Irsko), prof. Ariela Lowenstein (Universita Haifa, Izrael), prof. Thomas Goergen (Policejní Akademie Münster, Německo). Z českých odborníků přislíbili účast - Doc. PhDr. Radka Bužgová, Ph.D., Ing. Jiří Horecký, Ph.D., JUDr. Petra Masopust Šachová, Ph.D., Mgr. Monika Šimůnková a další.

The main theme for this year’s conference is the various forms of reflexivity. Reflexivity represents a classic tool of sociological thinking about the nature of the social and of its own scientific practice. We would like to create a space for inner reflexivity – for the relation of sociology to itself. The conference will allow for discussion of the state of sociological thinking and research, the presentation of the latest findings, progressive innovations as well as dead ends. We consider it equally important to explore our own sociological position in networks of relationships and the position of sociological knowledge in public culture – outer reflexivity. We want to look at how sociology enters the processes of construction of societal problems, and how the relationship of the academic sociological field to other scientific disciplines and other fields (economic, political, educational, etc.) is currently formed. Last, but not least, we want to focus on the role of reflexivity as a theoretical concept that allows us to grasp the character of modern subjectivity in the context of transforming social structures. What is the role of reflexivity in sociology and in the lived reality of an era described as post-factual and post-reflexive?

The CSA conference will be held online. The date remains unchanged: June 23 – 25, 2021. The Week of Sociology (June 21 – 25, 2021) will also be held online.

The major conference theme ‘Agency, Citizenship and the Dynamics of Power’ brings together topics that have traditionally stood at the core of sociological thinking, but that have not been necessarily at the heart of gerontological theory and research. Many authors now point to the contemporary struggles over the representation of older age within and beyond the realm of the social sciences. Later life and older people are represented on one hand as a quiescent minority bearing multiple disadvantages within a social status of limited agency and increasing dependency, experiencing a loss of autonomy and the need to redefine one´s role in the community and society. On the other hand, older people are also seen as a source of new political, economic, and cultural ‘grey’ power, as an influential actor in contemporary societies, shaping the contours of new policies and welfare regimes. These debates reflect the diversity of the experiences of ageing selves and the pluralities of life courses as well as of the institutional, political, and social changes with which the personal and individual experience is inseparably interlinked. These struggles lead also to the reformulation of the concepts of agency, autonomy, or power themselves and to the calling for their even more reflexive application in academic accounts of the human experience in later life.