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ACT panel at the Gerontological Society of America
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Lunch-and-learn on ageing and activism
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Mundane Media Moments: Ageing, The Ordinary, and Everyday Life
On Wednesday June 26 ACT and the Socio-gerontology Network…
New “ACT Lunch & Learn” speaker series at Concordia University featuring “Old, Crafty and Connected”
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events, News /by Constance LafontaineThe ACT project has launched a new “Lunch & Learn” series at Concordia. Each month, a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow is invited to present on their research. Colleagues provide feedback and ask questions in an informal setting. Everyone in the ACT community, from researchers to community partners, is invited to attend. The series kicked off in October 2016 […]
ACT is accepting travel funding applications for the ENAS-NANAS conference in Graz
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, News /by Constance LafontaineACT is accepting funding applications from ACT-affiliated researchers (namely co-applicants, collaborators and affiliated students) for the 2017 ENAS-NANAS meeting to be held at the University of Graz from April 27 to 30 2017. A limited number of partial funding travel grants, corresponding to the costs of air travel, will be made available. In such cases […]
ACT based research on aging and cognito-politics
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, In focus /by Constance LafontaineWhile there are no objectively clear distinctions between states of health, improvement, enhancement, optimization, or wellness within these discourses, they are ubiquitous in the proliferation of ‘neuro’ commodities (e.g., brain-stimulants and exercises), ‘neuro’ knowledges (e.g., neuroethics, neuro-marketing) and other ‘breakthrough’ enterprises at the frontier of cerebral subjectivity.
Kick-off seminar: “Between the Normal and the Abnormal – Cultural Meanings of Dementia and Old Age in Finland and Russia”
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events /by Kendra BesangerUniversity of Eastern Finland, Joensuu campus, Agora building, Yliopistokatu 4, Auditorium AG106 Program Tuesday 13 December 2016 Program 10.15 Opening of the seminar Project leader, professor Maija Könönen, UEF 10.30–11.30 Cultural changes in dementia: Stigmatization and everyday life Ph.D, director Christine Swane, EGV-Social Inclusion of Older People, Copenhagen 11.30–12.30 Memory and self in dementia and […]
Interview with Margarida Romero in Le Devoir
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Media watch /by Constance LafontaineACT co-applicant Margarida Romero was recently interviewed by Le Devoir as part of a series on education and about rethinking the sort of school needed for today’s society. In the article, Margarida explains that we need to approach education as a process in constant innovation. Read the interview here.
Shannon Hebblethwaite will present in Denmark on Dec 2nd
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, Events /by Kendra BesangerFlipping the camera screen: the importance of imaging technologies in elder communities
/0 Comments/in ACT Scroll, In focus /by Magdalena OlszanowskiWhen working with elders, it’s important to have a particular sensitivity to their life experience, their knowledge, and the ways in which they have been systematically and systemically excluded from the cultural production that requires ‘new media’. This ‘new media’, that is everywhere around them.
Ageing Waves
/0 Comments/in Ageing Waves, Project updates, Uncategorized /by Kendra Besanger