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August 2015
Silver Gaming Intergenerational Summer School
The ACT Silver Gaming Intergenerational Summer School (SGISS), organized by Margarida Romero, will be held from August 21-22 2015 at the Université Laval in Québec City, Québec. SGISS will bring together students, elders and scholars in activities that aim to explore intergenerational digital creation activities as well as to exchange on the conception, the development and the uses of digital games in social sciences. This project aims to explore intergenerational digital creation activities as well as to exchange on the conception, the development and…
Find out more »September 2015
Qualitative Research Conference in Bucharest
ACT is sponsoring the Qualitative Research Conference held in Bucharest, Romania. More information on participants from ACT to come.
Find out more »October 2015
Lancement: Les mains au bout du fil
You are invited to the launch of the ACT-sponsored film Fingers on The Line (Les mains au bout du fil) on Octobre 8 2015 at 6:45 at the Centre St-Pierre, 1212 Panet Street, Montreal near Beaudry metro station. Fingers on The Line is a film by Line Grenier, Véro Leduc and Pamela Witcher that explores communication technologies of yesterday and today, and that brings together reflections of deaf seniors. The film is a part of the ACT-funded Les aînés Sourds…
Find out more »Ageing Activisms Symposium at Trent University
Some ACT members are participating in the Ageing Activisms Symposium at Trent University. More details to follow.
Find out more »November 2015
ACT at the NWSA
Constance Lafontaine & Kim Sawchuk of Concordia University are presenting a paper titled "The Heterogeneity of Aging: Precarious Indeed" in a special panel on ageing at the National Women's Studies Association's conference.
Find out more »Address Known
Join us at Café l’Extension on Friday November 20th as we share stories and experiences from the Parc Extension neighbourhood. AddressKnown is an interactive documentary that weaves several stories of residents living in Parc Extension. The stories bring forth a multiplicity of perspectives which, together, provide a glimpse into a diverse neighbourhood that has undergone significant transformations in the past several years. Residents’ stories are woven together to form a narrative that works against traditional assumptions about “old people living…
Find out more »January 2016
February 2016
La musique en action. Vieillir et chanter en public
Groupe Théma (Théorie sociale – Enquête critique – Médiations –Action publique) de l’Université de Lausanne.
Find out more »Bob de Schutter Workshop
Details TBA.
Find out more »Les mains au bout du fil / Fingers On the Line : Brunch-Vidéo
La vidéo a été réalisée dans le cadre d'une recherche exploratoire intitulée « Technologies de communication d'hier et d'aujourd'hui : Réflexions d'aiînes-es Sourd-es » menée par Line Grenier et Véro Leduc de département de communication de l'Université de Montréal, en collaboration avec Pamel Witcher. This video has been produced in the context of an exploratory research entitled "Technologies of yesterday and today: Reflections of Deaf Seniors" undertaken by Line Grenier and Véro Leduc from the Department of Communication at the…
Find out more »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 »March 2016
April 2016
Aging Activisms Media Capsules Workshop
The Aging Activisms Media Capsules Workshop has its genesis at the Aging Activisms Symposium held at Trent in October of 2015. Responding to a call from participants to continue the conversations and build relationships, May Chazan (Trent) partnered with Kim Sawchuk from ACT and a number of their talented grad students and associates, to dream up this interactive workshop. The goal of the workshop, which took place from April 29-May 2, 2016, was to learn how to co-create a series…
Find out more »Aging Activisms Media Capsules: Workshop
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…
Find out more »May 2016
CREGÉS Symposium/Colloque, Aging & Engaging in a Digital World
Aging & Engaging in a Digital World This day of exchange aims to reach health and social service professionals / managers who are interested in using digital technologies in their work with the elderly. More broadly, the reflections and workshops will address the issue of aging in a digital world. Questions that will be explored: How will digital technology impact the day-to-day lives of seniors? What are the ethical issues involved in the relationship between practitioners and older adults with…
Find out more »Music, Ageing, Technology Symposium – University of Eastern Finland
The University of Eastern Finland, the Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology and the project Ageing, Communication, Technologies (ACT, Concordia University) bring together researchers from music studies and various other disciplines in order to discuss music in relation to ageing and technology. The symposium “Music, ageing, technology symposium” will be held in the Joensuu campus of the University of Eastern Finland, 11-13 May 2016. The participants of the symposium will look at all genres of music and ageing, often in the context…
Find out more »Music, Ageing, Technology : Symposium on Music Research
In May 2016, the University of Eastern Finland, the Finnish Society for Ethnosicology, and Concordia’s Ageing, Communication, Technologies project (ACT), brought together researchers from music studies and various other disciplines in order to discuss music in relation to ageing and technology. The Music, Ageing, Technology symposium was held in the Joensuu campus of the University of Eastern Finland, from May 11th to 13th, 2016. Participants of the symposium looked at all genres of music and ageing, often in the context of modern…
Find out more »June 2016
Art for Social Change: WEAAD event with RECAA
To mark World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, Elders Make Waves towards an Age Friendly City. On Thursday June 9th, Montreal-based groups RECAA, Union United Church and Le Groupe Herencias/Encounters project will join forces with their partners to bring community awareness to the importance of an age friendly city in preventing elder abuse. Starting at 11 am, local groups, including mostly seniors, will meet at the Lionel-Groulx metro and march to the Union United Church. Once at the church, lunch will…
Find out more »ACT Student Event: Montreal
This event welcomes anyone interested in growing the ACT student network. We will get the opportunity to meet each other and exchange ideas for future activities for students in the project. Two films will be shown as a way to learn more about the ACT project and other student opportunities available to you.
Find out more »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 »RECAA’s Forum Theatre at Marché des Possibles
Montreal Assault Prevention with an ACTION self-defense for Women and RECAA's Forum theatre will be at the Marché des Possibles on June 26th, this coming Sunday between 12h:00 and 2h30. Full program here: https://popmontreal.com/en/news/detail/marche-des-possibles/marche-des-possibles-releases-its-2016-programming/
Find out more »July 2016
August 2016
Age 3.0 2016
Room numbers: EV Building, all day Posters and Kiosks: EV atrium Re-memorations exhibit: Black Box (basement of EV) Panels: EV 1.605 B2B EV: 2.260 Age 3.0: The Creative Aging Fair was a free event, open to the general public. It took place at Concordia University, in the EV Building, from 9am - 5pm on August 25th, 2016.. Age 3.0 explored the multiple intersections of innovation, the creative economy, new technologies and aging and brought together voices from community groups, the university and local businesses to…
Find out more »October 2016
ACT Keynote: Feliciano Villar on Generativity in older people
The Communication Networks & Social Change Research Group (CN&SC) and Aging2.0 in Barcelona is pleased to invite you to an open lecture offered by Prof. Feliciano Villar, member of the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Barcelona and coordinator of the Research in Gerontology Group (GIG). He will present on "Generativity in older people: Later life as a time of development". The talk will take place at IN3 at the Open University of Catalonia in Castelldefels on October 14. The public…
Find out more »ACT Kiosk at CAG
ACT will be co-hosting a kiosk at the Canadian Association of Gerontology Conference. If you have plans to attend the conference, be sure to drop by and say hello!
Find out more »ACT Panel at CAG
ACT researchers will present as part of a panel titled Ageing, Communication, Technologies: Experiencing a digital world in later life at the upcoming conference of the Canadian Association of Gerontology (CAG) to be held in Montreal from October 20 to 22. The ACT panel will take place on October 22 at 3:15pm. The panel employs and explores a variety of methodologies to broach the study of old age, media and technologies in manners that reveal the heterogeneity of life courses and the…
Find out more »Shannon Hebblethwaite on “Grannie’s on the Net”
Shannon Hebblethwaite, Assistant professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences at Concordia University, will present her ACT-funded study on the uses of Facebook for family communication. This comparative case study brings together research on social media use, specifically Facebook, in Romania and Canada. The purpose of the study is to investigate how grandmothers communicate with grandchildren who move far away from home. The presentation, titled "Grannie’s on the net: Intergenerational communication on Facebook" will take place on October 25, 2016…
Find out more »Belinda Oldford on “Making ‘Living On The Land’: Exploring Inuit Translocation. A Visual Autoethnographic Experiment in Animated Database-Documentary”
As part of the "ACT Lunch & Learn" series, Belinda Oldford, alumni from the MA in Media Studies program at Concordia University, will screen her project titled "Making ‘Living On The Land’: Exploring Inuit Translocation. A Visual Autoethnographic Experiment in Animated Database-Documentary". Bring your lunch and join us at the ACT offices in the Samuel Bronfman (SB) Building at Concordia University!
Find out more »November 2016
Age 3.0: Aging in the city
Learn more about Age 3.0: Aging in the city
Find out more »Mini maker fair, fabrication showcase and documentary launch organized by Giuliana Cucinelli and Ann-Louise Davidson
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…
Find out more »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 »ACT researchers speaking at “Un Québec fou des aînés” in Montreal
ACT researchers Patrik Marier and Martine Lagacé will speak as part of the Journées annuelles de santé publiques day-long event on "Un Québec fou des aînés," to be held in Montreal on November 22, 2016. Patrik Marier of Concordia University will present on aging and public policy while Martine Lagacé of the University of Ottawa will present on stereotypes of aging, and their individual and collective consequences. More information can be found on the event webpage.
Find out more »Vernissage: Metropolis, lines of hopes and futures for seniors
Metropolis, lines of hopes and futures for seniors is a photography series of images taken by seniors and residents of the Durocher Residence in Montreal.
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