Loredana presented a paper titled "Mobile Phone uses in Public Spaces: Observations and Reflections of Older Users" at the Media and the Public Sphere: Evaluating Media in the Digital Era conference at SNSPA, Cox International Center of the University of Georgia and the Université Lyon 2.

Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, Loredana Ivan and Eugene Loos are serving as national representatives for respectively Spain, Romania and the Netherlands at the COST Actions IS1402 group meeting that has a theme of "Ageism." Josep Blat is also participating. More information on the working group is available at http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/isch/Actions/IS1402 .

Workshop with Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol as a keynote: Humanities look at technology, ageing, well-being and agency University of Eastern Finland, Yliopistonkatu 4, E204 Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Minna Ruckenstein (University of Helsinki) Tiina Suopajärvi (University of Oulu) Noora Talsi (UEF, Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences) Päivi Topo (The Age Institute) 10.15—11.00 Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol: the ACT project and the COST Action on Ageism. 11.00—12.00Minna Ruckenstein: Inquiries into personal analytics (20 min) Tiina Suopajärvi: Studying ageing and technology as human–non-human entanglements…

Line Grenier is presenting on her research on ageing and signing in public at the Laboratoire international de recherche sur le cerveau, la musique et le son.

The Playing Age conference is an  inter-disciplinary symposium that will be held at the University of Toronto from February 27-28, 2015 at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse. This event is co-sponsored by ACT. More information, including full conference programme, are available here.  

The GB meets to review project funding applications.

ACT co-applicant Murray Forman and Associate Professor in Media and Screen Studies at Northeastern University will present on his on-going research on ageing and hip-hop at the Center for Inter-American Studies at the University of Graz in Austria on March 17, 2015. The title of his talk is Old in the Game: Age and Aging in Hip-Hop. The presentation, Old in the Game: Age and Aging in Hip-Hop, explores the concept of age and aging in hip-hop culture and in rap music.…

ACT is organizing a brainstorming day on the theme of Ageing (with) animals on Saturday, April 4th, 2015 on the SGW campus of Concordia University in Montreal from 10 am to 3 pm. Humans share life courses with other species: often willingly with cats, dogs and other “pets” in tightly tangled relationships. We age with pets. And they age with us. But also these relationships can become difficult, disrupted and untenable, especially through conditions of old age. Animals are otherwise commodified for entertainment,…

Several members of ACT present at the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress 2015 held in Dublin, Ireland. Shannon Hebblethwaite: Grannies on the Net: Facilitating Intergenerational Family Communication Through Facebook Paul Higgs: Personhood and The Fourth Age Julia Twigg: Dress and Age: What About Men?

ACT members Kim Sawchuk, Shannon Hebblethwaite, Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol and Constance Lafontaine are participating in the COST Action Network meeting in Dublin.

New Media, Older People: age, narrative and normativities / Nouveaux médias, personnes âgées : âge, narration et normativités Canadian Communication Association conference University of Ottawa June 4, 2015, 8:30-1o:00 Site STE/F0126 Kim Sawchuk & Constance Lafontaine "Precarious Ageing: Questioning Access, Creating Interaction" Line Grenier & Véronique Leduc, Université de Montréal "Ageing, Deafhood And Technologies: Exploring Mediated Experiences" Margarida Romero, Université Laval "Creating Computer-based Life Narratives: Engaging Elders And Secondary Level Students In Intergenerational Learning About Immigration" Shannon Hebblethwaite, Concordia University…

The Ageing and Agency axis is organizing an all-day meeting at Concordia University in Montreal, gathering local community partners, corporate partners, researchers and students to discuss intersecting interests and opportunities for community-based emerging projects.

On Friday, June 19 at 12pm, Eric Craven (Atwater Library) and Line Grenier (Université de Montréal) are organizing a welcome and information session for a new season of the Digital Music-Making for Seniors. The new ACT-funded project will bring elders from the Montreal community. Through music labs and instruction, older individuals, communities, and scholars will be immersed in a creative process that will result in individual works, digital skills learning, and an opportunity to be a part of a large-scale public event. This project examines how digital media, play, and creative…

Seven students sponsored by ACT will participate in a module on Critical Mediations of Ageing to be given at the Graz Summer School Seggau held in Austria from June 28 to July 11. Kim Sawchuk, Director of ACT will be responsible for teaching the module.

Murray Forman or Northeastern University and Line Grenier of Université Montréal are jointly hosting the workshop "Music & Ageing" at the annual conference of the Canadian Branch of the International Assocation for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-Canada).

Maude Gauthier and Kim Sawchuk of Concordia University will present on "ACTipedia: addressing the invisibility of critical ageing studies on Wikipedia" at the International Association for Media and Communication Research to be held in Montreal from July 12 to 16 2015. Abstract: The recent efforts of activist academics, such as FEMTECHNET, to transform the representation of women on Wikipedia reveal how the Internet continues to remain a space of contestation and struggle, often reproducing existing power relations. In this paper, we contribute…