Aging Module at GUSEGG
Aging Module at Graz International Summer School Seggau – in partnership ACT-Project (actproject.ca)
Every year in July, more than 80 students and 10 professors from over 30 countries meet at the Graz International Summer School Seggau (GUSEGG) in Southern Styria, Austria to discuss global developments and challenges in areas such as society, politics, economics, religion, and culture. One aim of the summer school is to encourage participants to think outside the box and outside of their academic disciplines while engaging with new ideas. Of the multiple thematic workshops, one focuses specifically on Aging Studies. This Aging Studies workshop entitled “Aging, Communication, Technology” is organized by GUSEGG director Roberta Maierhofer (University of Graz) in partnership with the ACT project based at Concordia University, Montreal which offers scholarships to talented students in Aging Studies to participates in GUSEGG. The Aging Studies Workshop at GUSEGG enables students who are interested in questions of age and ageing across disciplines and (research) cultures to exchange with each other and it also helps build a sustainable network of emerging scholars in the field. In addition to introducing students from all disciplines to current research with regard to ageing and communication technologies, it encourages students to share their own ideas and to come up with relevant (research) questions on the topic of ageing. The Aging Studies workshop at GUSEGG organized in cooperation with the ACT project already successfully took place in 2015, 2016, and 2017. Lecturers leading the workshops were Kim Sawchuk (ACT primary investigator, Concordia University), Stephen Katz (Trent University), Line Grenier (Université de Montréal), Helen Kivnik (University of Minnesota), and Dave Madden (Concordia University).
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Women, Ageing and Media (WAM) Research Summer School
This research summer school for postgraduate students used to take place every year at the Women, Ageing and Media Research Center based at the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham, United Kingdom.
