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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.
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