Call for student applications: GUSEGG

ACT is co-sponsoring a module on ageing, this time titled Aging, Communication, Technologies, and will fund up to five graduate students to attend the school. This year, ACT researchers Stephen Katz, Line Grenier and Kim Sawchuk will teach at the school. You can learn more about the GUSEGG here. More information about ACT’s involvement in the school from last year (including a great video “trailer” produced during the last summer school) can be found here.

Interested students need to apply to ACT (not GUSEGG). The deadline for this application is  March 31, 2016. If you’re interested in applying, contact admin@actproject.ca for more information.

 

 

Moving Pictures: The Atwater Library + ACT + Nuit Blanche on Sat. Feb 27th

We know libraries are packed full of fascinating stories but these stories are usually found in books that sit silently on shelves. This weekend will be a little different because the walls and windows of the Atwater Library are about to come alive with video footage from local Montreal residents.

In preparation for Nuit Blanche (part of Montréal en lumière festival), the Atwater Library’s Digital Literacy Project has worked together with older Montreal residents to digitize Super 8, 16 mm, and 8 mm home movie reels. Not only have the older adults involved contributed to the digitization and editing process of their home movies, they’ve created soundtracks to accompany the projections.

From 5:00 pm – 1:00 am on Saturday, February 27th, viewers will be immersed in movies from the 1940s through to the 1970s as the stories and sounds of Montreal residents dance on the walls and windows of the Atwater Library’s 188-year-old heritage building.

Join us at Moving Pictures: Moving Histories Out of the Attic and Into the Public as we share stories from times and technologies of the past at the Atwater Library (1200 Atwater Avenue; metro: Atwater).

The Atwater Library is a partner of Concordia’s ACT (Ageing + Communication + Technologies) Project and this project is specifically connected to the Older Adults Music Making Club. The project has gained additional support from New Horizons for Seniors.

If you’re interested in checking out a similar, older project, have a look at Memoryspace. This was a project that we worked on with the Atwater Library in 2012.

1200 Atwater Ave 

Metro: Atwater

Dr. Anne Martin-Matthews on Cultural Representations of Widowhood

ACT is pleased to host Dr. Anne Martin-Matthews, Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia and former Director of the CIHR Institute of Aging. Dr. Martin-Matthews will present her talk “Cultural Representations of Widowhood: Insights from Social Media”.
Dr. Martin Matthews will discuss her current research on cultural representations of widowhood in later life, first considering ‘ways of knowing’ about widowhood in more traditional research literatures. Representations of widowhood in social media, in contrast, (appear to) place more emphasis on widowhood that is off-time, dis-enfranchised, and associated with a foregrounding of a declared status. Blogs, Instagram and Reddit AMAs also imply both empowerment and challenging of stereotypes, but suggest less reliable sources of the account.
Wednesday, February 24 at 10am
Samuel Bronfman Building (SB) (1590 Docteur Penfield, corner of Côte-des-neiges)
Room 407

Extended deadline: Music, Ageing, Technology Symposium (Joensuu, Finland, May 11-13 2016)

It’s not too late to apply! The deadline for the Music, Ageing, Technology Symposium at the University of Eastern Finland has been extended to February 29th, 2016.

In May 2016, the University of Eastern Finland, the Finnish Society for Ethnosicology, and Concordia’s  Ageing, Communication, Technologies project (ACT), will bring together researchers from music studies and various other disciplines in order to discuss music in relation to ageing and technology. The  Music, Ageing, Technology Symposium will be held in the Joensuu campus of the University of Eastern Finland, from May 11th to 13th, 2016.

Participants of the symposium will look at all genres of music and ageing, often in the context of modern communication technology. The symposium hopes to offer multilayered and critical perspectives on the crosscuttings of digital technologies and ageing in relation to music studies and to explore how these approaches relate to other research traditions. The theme is closely linked to the University of  Eastern Finland’s current research orientations surrounding human sciences and technology. 

Possible topics for proposals include, but are not limited to, the following themes:

· Music, musicians, and everyday ageing
· Theoretical and methodological ear points on research into music, ageing, technology
· Music genres and ageing
· Perspectives on historical research on ageing and music
· Sounds of generations and musical heritage
· Music, soundscape, memory
· Age, technology and music education
· Well-being, age, and music
· Other themes from all fields of music research

Organisers invite potential participants to submit  proposals for oral presentations (maximum length 20 minutes), panel sessions, and poster presentations. Proposals can be strictly or indirectly related to the theme of the symposium. It is also possible to propose presentations that are entirely outside the theme. Presentations can be given in Finnish, Swedish or English.

Abstracts for the symposium should be submitted by February 29, 2016 using the online submission system. All accepted abstracts will be announced on March 21, 2016.

The online submission system and the web page of the symposium can be found at http://joensuusymposium2016.blogspot.fi/ 

Ageing & Intervention in Wikipedia: A Virtual Summit

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On February 8th, Maude Gauthier and Shannon Hebblethwaite will host a virtual summit that aims to widen the scope of the discourses circulating in Wikipedia. On February 26th, Maude Gauthier will host a second virtual summit. These summits will equip ACT researchers with the strategies and tools needed for effectively editing Wikipedia pages. A key objective of the virtual summits is to encourage researchers, especially those who are not English or French speakers, to explore the state of Wikipedia in their own language with the long-term hope of fostering an international discussion on ageing and Wikipedia.
Each summit will take the form of a 4-hour workshop, monitored by our team in Montreal. ACT affiliated researchers from Graz, the University and Toronto, and Brunel University will participate in these virtual workshops.

If you’d like to learn more, contact Maude Gauthier (gauthier.maude@gmail.com).

CFP: NWSA Aging and Ageism Caucus

I invite you to submit an individual paper or panel proposal to the Aging and Ageism Caucus of the National Women’s Studies Association for presentation at the annual conference to be held in Montreal, Quebec, November 10-13, 2016.  The caucus co-chairs will organize these proposals into panels and submit them to the NWSA for consideration.  Please submit a proposal and forward this email to anyone you know who might be interested in presenting.

The NWSA conference, which annually draws more than 1,500 participants, is the largest gathering of feminist scholars in North America.  The Aging and Ageism Caucus works to ensure that feminist scholars consider age as a vital category of analysis. You must be a member of NWSA to present at the conference.  You can join and find more information here: http://www.nwsa.org/conference2016.

 

We will consider a proposal on any topic related to aging or ageism, but every proposal needs to in some way address one of the conference subthemes: 1) Unsettling Settler Logics; 2) Movement and Migrations; 3) Bodies and Biopolitics; 4) Borders and Be/Longings; 4) World Making and Resistant Imaginaries.  The general theme for the conference is “Decoloniality.”

In addition to these general themes, the Aging and Ageism Caucus has prepared calls for specific panels—details attached.

To propose a paper, please email the following to Corinne Field, cf6d@virginia.edu by Sunday, February 7, 2016:

·      100 word abstract (with citations if applicable)

·      Title

·      Your full name

·      Institutional affiliation (if applicable)

·      Mailing address

·      Phone number(s)

·      Email address

·      Audiovisual rationale if you require a projector

Please note that the NWSA submission portal only allows for input of 100 word abstracts. In addition, NWSA will allow space to list works cited when submitting the proposals for consideration.  If you would like to include your sources please cite them for submission.  Thank you!

Hope to see you in Montreal,

Corinne Field