Recent events
ACT and CREGÉS Give Talk about Sandra’s Keys
Supporting World Eld...
ACT panel at the Gerontological Society of America
ACT members Stephen ...
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…
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 […]
ACM and RECAA at the Congrès de l’Acfas
/in News /by Constance LafontaineOn May 16, Sophie Guérin, a Research Assistant affiliated with ACM and Marguerite Kephart of RECAA (Respecting Elders: Communities Against Abuse) presented at the Congrès de l’Acfas (Association francophone pour le savoir) held at Concordia University. They were part of a panel that addressed questions about elder abuse, which was part of a special event […]
ACM and RECAA at the Congrès de l'Acfas
/in ACT Scroll, Activist Ageing, News /by Constance LafontaineOn May 16, Sophie Guérin, a Research Assistant affiliated with ACM and Marguerite Kephart of RECAA (Respecting Elders: Communities Against Abuse) presented at the Congrès de l’Acfas (Association francophone pour le savoir) held at Concordia University. They were part of a panel that addressed questions about elder abuse, which was part of a special event […]
OWL Interview Available Online
/in News /by Constance LafontaineThe April 9 CKUT interview with Kim Sawchuk, Kendra Besanger and Constance Carrier-Lafontaine conducted by Rose Marie Whalley from Older Women Live is available online. http://ckut.ca/c/en/oldgrid/wednesday,18:00
ACM on CKUT
/in News /by Constance LafontaineKim Sawchuk will be giving an interview on April 9th at 6pm (EST) on CKUT in Montreal for the radio program Older Women Live (OWL). She will discuss ageing and technologies, and some of the community and research project conducted by ACM. Research assistants affiliated with ACM, Kendra Besanger and Constance Carrier-Lafontaine, will also be […]