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April 2016

Aging Activisms Media Capsules: Workshop

April 29, 2016 @ 6:00 pm - May 2, 2016 @ 2:00 pm

This is a four-day workshop in which participants will co-create a series of short videos that tell the stories of four generations of women who have done work related to social change and activism throughout their lives. Workshop participants will learn to interview, record, and photograph one another to produce "media capsules" that tell the personal "herstories" of each of the participants. This workshop has been co-organized by the Ageing, Communication, and Technologies (ACT, Concordia University) and the Trent Centre…

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November 2016

Mini maker fair, fabrication showcase and documentary launch organized by Giuliana Cucinelli and Ann-Louise Davidson

November 3, 2016

  Joins us at Concordia University on November 3, 2016 for "Making things...And making things private," a one-day event held as part of Literacy Week organized by ACT co-applicant Giuliana Cucinelli and affiliated researcher Ann-Louise Davidson. A maker fair will be held from 2pm to 4pm, followed by a fabrication showcase and a documentary launch, both to be held from 4pm to 7pm. The event will be held at the Milieux Institute on the 11th floor of the EV building…

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May 2017

Accessibility Gamepad Challenge

May 24, 2017

On May 24, we’re having an Accessibility Gamepad Challenge and you’re invited! Have you ever wished that your gamepad design was different? Do you or someone close to you have a reduced mobility or live with accessibility limitations that requires modifications to the objects you use daily? Then we have a challenge for you! Come join a collaborative team and tinker with capacitive sensors, gamepads, arcade buttons and joysticks, and more! Our team has been tinkering around the usability challenge…

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December 2017

March 2019

Statistics Don’t Hurt (II) Workshop

March 6, 2019 - March 8, 2019

The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest, Romania, is hosting a 3-day hands-on workshop as part of the Longitudinal Study on Older Audiences, which gathers data on the media practices of older adults over three waves and in seven countries. The workshop will bring together ACT researchers who are exploring the data from the recently-collected Wave 2 of the data collection from multiple perspectives. Through the face-to-face meetings, we seek to strengthen our collective quantitative analysis and find opportunities…

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April 2019

“Dissent in/with (Con)Science” International Workshop

April 11, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

"We Tell: Storytelling and Civic Awareness" at the University of Bologna proudly presents DISSENT IN/WITH (CON)SCIENCE Bologna, Italy, at the Piccolo Teatro del Baraccano This international workshop event aims to investigate the variety of forms and ways in which the industry of culture (in all its expressions) affects the development of all mechanisms of construction and deconstruction of individual and collective civic awareness. The ultimate purpose is to reflect on those mechanisms that make institutions, ruling bodies, governments, as well…

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June 2021

Workshop on OP-ED Writing for Ageing Studies (Day 1)

June 21, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Do you want to bring your research into public and media discussions on age and ageing? You should write an Op Ed! Op Eds are short commentaries that are generally published in newspapers or magazines, and centred on presenting an opinion and argument on a socially-relevant matter. Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT) Lab and the engAGE centre for research on aging are teaming up with Informed Opinions to organize a two-day workshop for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. This…

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Workshop on OP-ED Writing for Ageing Studies (Day 2)

June 23, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Do you want to bring your research into public and media discussions on age and ageing? You should write an Op Ed! Op Eds are short commentaries that are generally published in newspapers or magazines, and centred on presenting an opinion and argument on a socially-relevant matter. Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT) Lab and the engAGE centre for research on aging are teaming up with Informed Opinions to organize a two-day workshop for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. This…

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Workshop on Demystifying Policy Interventions for Emerging Researchers

June 28, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

How can our research findings help build evidence-based public policy that promotes better ageing futures? This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are interested in mobilizing and communicating their research findings to policy makers to help promote societal change. From reports, to white papers, to engagements with decision makers in multiple echelons of society, workshop participants will learn more about the different forms that policy interventions can take. They will discover tips on how to translate…

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Workshop – COVID Conundrums: Rethinking Research Methods in a Pandemic

June 30, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

As a pandemic has upended our lives, the ways in which we do research have also shifted. Students and other emerging researchers, in particular, are asked to make impactful decisions about their own academic practices and research projects. Social distancing measures have altered fieldwork and disrupted academic plans. The predominance of online tools have posed challenges for data collection. How can we adapt, rethink or shape our research methods in ways that are attuned to an era of profound and…

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