Aging and Society: Third Interdisciplinary Conference
- Healthy Aging: Educating Through Media
- 8–9 November 2013
- University Center Chicago, Chicago, USA
Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Aging and Society: Third Interdisciplinary Conference.
Countries represented.
This year's conference features the special theme: Healthy Aging: Educating through Media. To explore and discuss this theme, The Aging Conference has partnered with Working Films to look at how different forms of media can be used to educate and talk about aging and society. As part of this discussion two documentaries from Working Films’s Series: Reel Aging will be featured. These selections are Prison Terminal directed by Edgar Barens and The Graying of Aids directed by Katja Heinemann and Naomi Schegloff. Additionally a panel discussion on the morning of the 9th will serve as a forum to examine how media is and can be used to educate about aging and health.
The Aging and Society: Third Interdisciplinary Conference featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Visiting Media Specialist, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Visual Journalist, Graying of AIDS Co-Director, USA
Interim Co-Director, Working Films, USA
Health Educator/Writer, Graying of AIDS Co-Director, USA
For each conference, a small number of Graduate Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for graduate students at this stage in their academic careers. The 2013 Graduate Scholar Awardees are listed below.
Ryerson University, Canada
University of Arkansas, USA
Florida International University, USA
University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
University of Calgary, Canada
Columbia University, USA
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Queen’s University, Canada