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September 2014
November 2014
New Media and Older People – Age, Narratives and Normativities
Kim Sawchuk, Eugene Loos, Loredana Ivan, Line Grenier, Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, Eric Craven, & Constance Carrier-Lafontaine are presenting in a panel titled "New Media and Older People - Age, Narratives and Normativities" at ECREA in Lisbon. Shannon Hebblethwaite is chairing. http://www.ecrea.eu
Find out more »January 2015
Rediscovery of Agency in Later Life after Experiencing a Planned Earlier Life
A lecture by Jaylene Liang.
Find out more »July 2015
‘Grannie’s on Facebook’ presented in Bournemouth, UK
'Grannie’s on Facebook: Using Online Research Methods (Netnography) to Study Family Leisure'. Co-authored paper presentation by ACT researchers Loredana Ivan and Shannon Hebblethwaite at the Leisure Studies Association conference in Bournemouth, UK. .
Find out more »February 2016
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…
Find out more »June 2016
Kim Sawchuk at Mat’Inno
Kim Sawchuk has been invited by the Jeune chambre de commerce de Montréal to speak on the theme of the "silver economy" and to present the ACT project on the morning of June 17. More information, including information on registration, is available here.
Find out more »October 2016
November 2016
Barbara Crow at “The New Shape of Things: Big Data, Big Stories”
Barbara Crow of York University will take part in the Inaugural Monday Night Seminar on "The New Shape of Things: Big Data, Big Stories" organized by the McLuhan Centre for Culture & Technology and the Faculty of Information (iSchool) at the University of Toronto. See here for more information and to reserve your spot.
Find out more »March 2017
Kim Sawchuk speaking at the University of South Australia
Kim Sawchuk has been invited to present on "Co-Researching with Seniors: Lessons from the ACT Project" at the University of South Australia.
Find out more »May 2017
Ros Jennings on “Sexism, ageism and ‘late style’: Marianne Faithfull and Kate Bush”
ACT Collaborator, Director of the Centre for Women, Ageing and Media (WAM) Founding member of the European Network in Ageing Studies (ENAS) is giving a public lecture at the University of Gloucestershire on May 11, 2017, from 6 to 7pm. Ros, whose research explores music and ageing, including ageing pop and rock stars, will present a talk titled "Sexism, Ageism and 'Late Style': Marianne Faithfull and Kate Bush". Those interested in attending should register on the eventbrite page.
Find out more »Perspectives culturelles sur le vieillissement avec Martine Lagacé
Le 18 mai 2017 à 14 h, Martine Lagacé, une chercheuse membre de ACT, participera à la série de conférences donnée à Montréal et qui est intitulée Où en est la recherche sur le vieillissement ? Cette série est organisée par le Centre de recherche de l’IUGM, en collaboration avec Le Groupe Maurice. L'intervention de Martine Lagacé portera sur les Perspectives culturelles sur le vieillissement.
Find out more »October 2017
Josephine Dolan on ‘Old age’, gender and the silvering of contemporary Hollywood cinema
ACT invites you to public lecture by Josephine Dolan and a subsequent reception, to be held in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University on October 5, 2017. More information Registration
Find out more »November 2017
Shannon Hebblethwaite presenting at Beyond Disciplines at Concordia University
Beyond Disciplines: The Art of the Interview is happening on November 22, 2017, from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. What role does interviewing play in research? Attend next week’s Beyond Disciplines event to take a close and personal look at interviews in an academic context. More information here.
Find out more »March 2018
Ethical Dilemmas inside the Breast Cancer Movement: When Big Pharma Comes Knocking
Sharon Batt will read from her new book, Health Advocacy, Inc.: How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement. A discussion will follow.
Find out more »July 2019
Sexism, ageism and ‘late style’: Popular music and older women performers
You are invited to attend a public keynote by Prof. Ros Jennings, from the University of Gloucestershire, where she will question the dominant ageist discourses in the West and their impact on the late style identities and performance strategies of older women popular music stars. The research discussed will focus on performers such as Mavis Staples, Joan Baez, Marianne Faithfull and Kate Bush; female popular music performers who have established long and notable careers. The analysis presented will examine the…
Find out more »September 2019
Lecture by Mireia Fernández-Ardèveol: “Older people go mobile… their way”
Mireia Fernández-Ardèveol, who is visiting the Université de Montréal from the Open University of Catalonia, is giving a public lecture on September 13, 2019. "Older people go mobile... their way" reviews empirical evidence on the intersection of older age and mobile communication from a non-patronizing perspective. It examines the ways heterogeneous groups of older individuals appropriate mobile devices, the meanings of these uses, and the paramount role of the mobile phone. By acknowledging the heterogeneity often hidden in under the…
Find out more »October 2019
Lunch-and-learn on ageing and activism
Join us on October 7 for a lunch-and-learn session with Daniel Blanche, who is visiting Concordia University from the Open University of Catalonia. Most people associate activism as the domain of youth, even though many older people have been involved in activism for much longer than their younger counterparts. Sociopolitical activism comes in many forms, and it is not always a uniform activity throughout life. Some people become involved since a very young age, others are more or less…
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