Upcoming Events
Recent events
Premiere of Madhu’s Saris
Join us for the premiere of the short documentary film Madhu’s Saris, which will be screened during the AGM for Respecting Elders: Communities Against Abuse on September 20, 2018. The film is the outcome of a collaborative research creation pro...
GUSEGG 2018: Module on Ageing, Communication and Technologies
The 2018 edition of the Graz University Summer School Seggau will take place in Austria from July 1 to July 14. ACT Director, Kim Sawchuk, will teach the ACT-sponsored module on Ageing, Communication and Technologies.
IASPM: Time is of the Essence: Popular Music, Ageing, and Memory
ACT panel at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Canada conference in Regina
Expanding our understanding of activism(s) by sharing stories of older activists
In their recently released book, Unsettling Activisms: Critical Interventions on Aging, Gender, and Social Change (Women's Press, 2018), editors May Chazan, Melissa Baldwin, and Patricia Evans present compelling reasons why our common perceptions of activisms and activists need to be expanded; specifically, expanded to include the work of older women activists.
Women, Ageing, and Media International Research Summer School: Call for Applications
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, CFP, Events /by Kendra BesangerThe 2016 International Women, Ageing and Media (WAM) Research Summer School (at the University of Gloucestershire) will take place in Cheltenham (UK) on 23rd and 24th June and will bring together international postgraduate researchers across disciplines whose research engages with women and ageing. The Summer School will provide excellent opportunities for postgraduate researchers to make […]
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT) Postdoctoral Fellowship Deadline: February 6, 2016
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, CFP, News /by Kendra BesangerAn ACT Postdoctoral Fellowships will be awarded to an emerging researcher working within one or more core areas of the SSHRC-funded research project “Ageing, communication, technologies: experiencing a digital world in later life.” ACT is a multi-methodological project that brings together researchers, local community partners and international institutional partners to address the transformation of the […]
CFP: BSA Ageing, Body and Society Study Group
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, CFP /by ACT7th Annual Conference: Ageing and Culture; February 26th 2016; University of Manchester
CFP: Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Annual Conference 2016
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, CFP /by ACTMay 28, 29, 30, 31 2016.
University of Calgary
CFP: Transmediations! Communication across Media Borders
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, CFP /by ACTLinnæus University, Sweden, 13–15 October 2016
CfP – Futures of the End of Life: Mobilities of Loss and Commemoration in the Digital Economy
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, CFP /by ACT21-22 January Institute for Social Futures, Lancaster University, UK
Symposium on Music and Ageing
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events /by ACTMultidisciplinary symposium that will take place on November 27th, Montréal
Roxana Barrantes presents at PUCP
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, News /by ACTRoxana Barrantes will introduce ACT at PUCP (Peru) on November 20th, 2015