https://actproject.ca ageing + communication + technologies Sat, 01 Jul 2017 09:54:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 https://actproject.ca/working-groups/popular-music-and-ageing/#comment-4881 Sat, 01 Jul 2017 09:54:41 +0000 http://actproject.ca/?page_id=2677#comment-4881 […] Shannon Hebblethwaite, ACT co-applicant and Associate Professor of Applied Human Sciences at Concordia University, was one of these first-time participants. She explained that she “was impressed by the depth of critical reflection and the thoughtful and constructive discussion that occurred in each and every session”. Hebblethwaite, as a founding member of ACT’s Ageing and Place working group, helped organize two of the three ACT panels of the conference. One dealt with “Expanding our Understanding of Ageing in Place” and the other with “Ageing in Unexpected and Everyday Places,” and panelists presented research they had undertaken as part of the working group over the previous year. The third ACT panel was organized by Stephen Katz, who is an ACT co-applicant and Professor of Sociology at Trent University. He brought together ACT researchers from three countries to form a panel titled, “On and On (and On): Music, Memory, and the Performance of Age”. Like Hebblethwaite, Katz also built upon the work of an ACT working group, this time the one on Music and Ageing. […]

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