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November 2015
Address Known
Join us at Café l’Extension on Friday November 20th as we share stories and experiences from the Parc Extension neighbourhood. AddressKnown is an interactive documentary that weaves several stories of residents living in Parc Extension. The stories bring forth a multiplicity of perspectives which, together, provide a glimpse into a diverse neighbourhood that has undergone significant transformations in the past several years. Residents’ stories are woven together to form a narrative that works against traditional assumptions about “old people living…
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Dr. Anne Martin-Matthews on Cultural Representations of Widowhood
Ageing, Communication, Technologies (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 on Dr. Martin-Matthews will present her talk “Cultural Representations of Widowhood: Insights from Social Media”. She 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…
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