The workshop “Unpacking Inequalities: Ageing, Care, and Gender in Southeast Europe” will bring together scholars to discuss the intersectional dimensions of ageing and care work, particularly within the Southeast European context. It will begin with a panel discussion that examines the social, political, and financial aspects of ageing and care work through critical ethnographic and intersectional research. Following this, we invite you to a documentary screening that highlights the personal and ethical dilemmas faced by a female caregiver balancing her responsibilities and choices follwed by a discussion. The workshop will take place on November 7, 2024, from 15:00 to 19:00 at the University of Graz, Elisabethstraße 27, SR 67.01 (Ground Floor).

Program Highlights:

15:00 – 16:30 | Panel Discussion

Being part of a European Family: Perspectives of Female Paid Domestic Care Workers from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Nejra Nuna Čengić (Anthropologist & Former Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for South-East European Studies)

Transforming Anxieties of Aging in Southeastern Europe: Project Outline and Preliminary Results

Ulla Kriebernegg (Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care)

Ivana Spirovska (Centre for Southeast European Studies)

16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee Break

17:00 – 19:00 | Film Screening & Discussion

Mâine Mă Duc – Tomorrow I Leave directed by Maria Lisa Pichler and Lukas Schöffel

(Documentary Film, 75 min, Romanian & German with English subtitles)

About the Panelists

Nejra Nuna Čengić is an anthropologist, dealing with transformation of labour, social memory and war violence. During the last three years, she was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Graz, Centre for Southeast European Studies, researching female domestic paid care work in Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond.

Ulla Kriebernegg is professor of Cultural Aging and Care Research and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care (CIRAC) at the University of Graz. She has a background in North American Studies and is associate editor of The Gerontologist. She is a PI in the project “Transforming Anxieties of Ageing in South Eastern Europe” (Volkswagen Foundation).

Ivana Spirovska is a Doctoral candidate and a Researcher at the Centre for Southeast European Studies on the project “Transforming Anxieties of Ageing in Southeast Europe”, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. She has a background in law, education and migration studies. Human rights, statelessness, national/ethnic minorities, and migration have been at the heart of her research.