CFP: NWSA Aging and Ageism Caucus

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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

Call for Abstracts: Fostering Innovation in Research on Aging

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CAG2016: Fostering Innovation in Research on Aging

45th Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting
Canadian Association on Gerontology

October 20-22, 2016
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

http://CAG2016.ca<http://cag2016.ca/>

The Canadian Association on Gerontology is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for CAG2016: Fostering Innovation in Research on Aging, October 20-22, 2016 in beautiful Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Join us for Canada’s premier multidisciplinary conference for those interested in individual and population aging.  Abstracts are welcomed from all disciplines and all interests in aging, including research, practice, policy and related work.  International submissions are encouraged.  We are also pleased to offer the CIHR-IA Student Poster Competition and student travel assistance grants.

Abstracts are due by April 15, 2016.

For more information, including discounted room rates at the Hotel Bonaventure, please visit http://CAG2016.ca<http://cag2016.ca/>

CAG2016 is hosted by the Quebec Network for Research on Aging (http://rqrv.com<http://rqrv.com/>)

Call for Presenters

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We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, or colloquia addressing one of the following themes:

  • Theme 1: Economic and Demographic Perspectives on Aging
  • Theme 2: Public Policy and Public Perspectives on Aging
  • Theme 3: Medical Perspectives on Aging, Health, Wellness
  • Theme 4: Social and Cultural Perspectives on Aging

More information at http://agingandsociety.com/2016-conference/call-for-presenters

CFP: Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2016

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For the first time in its history, Crossroads in Cultural Studies is coming to the southern hemisphere. Hosted by the University of Sydney and Western Sydney University, the 11th International Conference Crossroads in Cultural Studies will be held in Sydney, Australia, from December 14th to 17th 2016, bringing scholars together in the beautiful summertime setting of Sydney University to engage with the past, present and future of cultural studies scholarship.

The Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference has played an important role in the creation of a global discussion of Cultural Studies. It has become a major international conference where scholars from all five continents gather regularly to exchange research, views, and insights. Organized by the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS), the Crossroads conference is held every other year in different parts of the world. Previous conferences have taken place in Birmingham (United Kingdom), Urbana-Champaign (USA), Istanbul (Turkey), Kingston (Jamaica), Hong Kong (China), Paris (France), and Tampere (Finland).

A day-long postgraduate/graduate research student conference will precede the main conference (on 13 December, 2016).

•       Submit your proposal using the online forms before April 30th, 2016: The call for both paper and pre-organised panel proposals is now open. Submission guidelines and forms can be accessed through our website: www.crossroads2016.org.
•       ACS assistance scheme for Crossroads 2016: The Association for Cultural Studies will offer a small number of grants to assist participants from ACS under-represented regions with travel accommodation or registration expenses.
•       Information on keynote and plenary speakers, on registration and accommodation, and on the student pre-conference will follow soon.
•       Spread the news! Please forward this message to your colleagues and friends – we look forward to seeing you in Sydney in our summer 2016!

Possible topics
The conference is open to all topics relevant to cultural studies. Here are some suggested topics as food for thought, drawing on the work of our invited keynote, plenary and spotlight speakers, and on more general themes in cultural studies research. However, all contemporary cultural studies research is welcome at this conference:
•       Diversity, culture, governance
•       Indigenous knowledge and politics
•       Borders and mobilities
•       Culture, gender and decolonisation
•       Data cultures
•       Extraction: cultures and industries
•       Media regulation: from censorship to piracy
•       Popular affect online
•       Transforming christianities
•       Who counts in the anthropocene? gender, sexuality, race and class
•       Securitization
•       Australasian cultural studies
•       Consumption and everyday life
•       Critical and cultural theory
•       Digital infrastructure
•       Culture, gender and sexuality
•       Globalisation and culture
•       Human/non-human relations
•       Inter-Asian cultural studies
•       Managing cities
•       Migrant cultural studies
•       Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies
•       Popular cultures and genres
•       Public culture and cultural policy
•       Rethinking the human
•       Rural cultural studies
•       Screen and media culture
•       Transforming/Globalising universities

Steering Committee: Professor Catherine Driscoll (USyd), Professor Tony Bennett (WSU), Associate Professor Tess Lea (USyd), Professor Brett Nielson (WSU), Professor Elspeth Probyn (USyd), Dr Guy Redden (USyd), Dr Shanthi Robertson (WSU).

Web: www.crossroads2016.org
Email: acs.2016@sydney.edu.au
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/XR2016/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/XR_2016

Call for papers on Living Labs for “OpenLivingLab Days” 2016

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Concordia University (with ACT) and in partnership with Communautique will be hosting the OpenLivingLab Days 2016 of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) in August.

This is a summer school that showcases the work of Living Labs (mainly from Europe and North America) and also serves as a forum for emerging research on the Living Lab model, co-creation, and innovation.

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For more information, please see the full call for papers here: http://openlivinglabdays.com/call-for-papers-on-living-labs/

Deadline: Monday April 11th, 2016

Women, Ageing, and Media International Research Summer School: Call for Applications

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logo_partners06The 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 important connections with other researchers working in the field of Ageing Studies and, in addition to presenting work, there will be research training workshops exploring methods and conceptual issues relating to women and ageing studies. All participants will be expected to publish their reworked presentations or creative output in the Postgraduate Journal of Women, Ageing and Media as an event outcome (see http://wamuog.co.uk/pgwam-issue-2 ).

For more information, here is the full call for applications: WAM Summer School cfp 2016 The deadline for application is February 28th 2016.

Please direct inquiries and applications to Ros Jennings: wambookings@glos.ac.uk

Please note: ACT has reserved funds for contributing to the travel costs of up to 6 ACT affiliated PhD students. For more information about funding for this opportunity, please contact Constance Lafontaine: admin@actproject.ca

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT) Postdoctoral Fellowship Deadline: February 6, 2016

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An 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 experiences of ageing with the proliferation of new forms of mediated communications in networked societies. It encompasses research that is conducted along three axes:

1) Agency in ageing: collaborative creativity and the digital arts in later life entails a program of research that involves individuals and communities in the development of participatory action research projects that have both scholarly and creative outcomes.

2) Critical mediations: everyday life and cultures of ageing examines the everyday life practices and the variegated mediated experiences of adults in later life, including by looking at how older adults engage with music, photography, film, television or gaming.

3) Telecommunication technologies: ageing in networked societies investigates ageing in the context of networked societies. Research in this area bridges internet and telecommunications research with ageing studies.

POSITION

The ACT Postdoctoral Fellowship entails a yearly salary of $45,000 and can begin as early as April 2016. Applications for one-year projects will be considered and there may be an opportunity for re-application for a second year. The ACT Postdoctoral Fellowship will be housed at Concordia University in Montreal, but can be undertaken in collaboration with a partner institution of ACT (see the website for the full list of partners).

A central goal of ACT is to train a new generation of Canadian scholars in the study of ageing from the perspective of the social sciences, the arts and/or the humanities.

As such, in addition to conducting and completing their own research project in coherence with the ACT mandate, the successful candidate will be expected to participate actively in the intellectual development of ACT, to work on a regular basis from the ACT offices located in downtown Montreal, and to perform some of the following tasks that are intended to complement their postdoctoral training:

– Assist in the organization and implementation of academic and community events, including conferences and workshops.

– Conduct public and university lectures.

– Contribute to the development of collaborative ACT projects including existing ones like ACTipedia, Ageing Media Watch and Interaction.

– Assist in the preparation of grant applications.

ELIGIBILITY

The successful candidates will have a Ph.D. in hand before beginning the position and will have received their Ph.D. no earlier than March 31, 2012.

APPLICATION

In a single email addressed to application@actproject.ca, please provide the following three components as individual attachments.

– A letter of intent (maximum 3 pages) that articulates the research project to be undertaken, how the research fits within the mandate of ACT, the candidate’s suitability and expertise, the applicant’s timeline and collaborative interests within the ACT network.

– A CV.

– A list of three references with complete contact information, who could be called upon to write letters of recommendation.

The deadline for this call is February 6, 2016.

Questions pertaining to this position should be sent to Constance Lafontaine (admin@actproject.ca).