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Mundane Media Moments: Ageing, The Ordinary, and Everyday Life
On Wednesday June 26 ACT and the Socio-gerontology Network…
Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol to present in workshop at University of Eastern Finland
/0 Comments/in News /by Constance LafontaineMireia Fernández-Ardèvol from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya will participate in a workshop titled “Humanities look at technology, ageing, well-being and agency” organized by ACT partner University of Eastern Finland. She will present on “The ACT project and the COST Action on Ageing” on December 5, 2014. The organizing committee from the University of Eastern Finland […]
CFP – European heritages, realities and utopias: the elderly’s consumption of coffee, tea and “leisure” time
/0 Comments/in CFP /by ACTSIEF 2015 12th Congress, in Zagreb Croatia (June 21-25, 2015).
Eric Craven presents on Digital Culture and Community
/0 Comments/in News /by Constance LafontaineEric Craven, who works as a Project Coordinator for the Atwater Library and Computer Centre in Montreal, presented on his work in a talk titled “Digital Culture and Community” at the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute in Portugal on November 12, 2014. More information is available here.
ACT members organize panel at ECREA
/0 Comments/in News /by Constance LafontaineOn November 15, 2014, ACT Director Kim Sawchuk, co-applicants Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, Line Grenier, Loredana Ivan and Eugène Loos, Collaborator Eric Craven and Associate Director Constance Carrier-Lafontaine organized a panel titled “New Media and Older People: Age, Narratives and Normativities” at the 5th annual European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) conference held in Lisbon, Portugal. Sawchuk […]
Kim Sawchuk presents at Orbicom/UNESCO Chair on Social Media Conference
/0 Comments/in News /by Constance LafontaineDr. Kim Sawchuk of Concordia University presented a paper titled “Digital Ageism and Social Media” during the Orbicom/UNESCO Chair on Social Media Conference held on November 6th and 7th at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne. More information on the conference is available here.
Fannie Valois-Nadeau on Digitizing and Biographizing Léo Gravelle
/0 Comments/in News /by Constance LafontaineFannie Valois-Nadeau, a Queen’s University Postdoctoral Fellow affiliated with ACT, has recently presented in Dr. Line Grenier’s Master’s seminar Mémoire, médias et pouvoir (Memory, Media and Power). Her presentation was titled “Numériser et biographiser Léo Gravelle” (Digitizing and Biographing Léo Gravelle). More information on Valois-Nadeau’s research on the former Montreal Canadiens hockey player is available […]
Murray Forman on Age and Hip-Hop
/0 Comments/in In focus /by ACTDr. Murray Forman has been named an Inaugural Nasir Jones Fellow by the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Line Grenier presented at CEFAN on Ageing and Singing in Public
/0 Comments/in News /by ACTOn October 10, 2014, Line Grenier of the Université de Montréal presented at CEFAN (Chaire des études francophones en Amérique du Nord). The theme of this year’s conference was speech in the city. Her presentation was titled “La musique populaire en action: Chanter et vieillir en public” (Popular Music in Action: Signing and Ageing in […]