As usual we are having an interlocutor special event, celebration of new books/research on Friday 12:15, Metro Toronto Convention Centre 709, where Jay Sokolovsky and Maria Cattell interview members of the award winning, “Resemblage Project: Remixing Scarborough’s Stories of Aging”, set in Toronto; Business meeting Saturday 12:15 and our IG Invited Session – “Transitions in Later Life” organized by Ellen Badone and Cati Coe which will be Saturday, 10:30-12:00. We plan on having a group dinner Friday evening – contact Jay Sokolovsky, jsokolov@usf.edu about this. We hope to see you at some or all of these activities.
WEDNESDAY
Remembrance, recognition, and belonging in late life
Session Time: 2:15 PM to 4:00 PM – TMCC, 802A
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Olivia Killias
Participants: Casey Golomski, Jessica Robbins-Panko, Victoria Kumala Sako, Rosa Cordillera Catillo, Thalia Gigerenzer, Rivka Eisner, Olivia Killias
Transitve Afflictions
Session Time: 4:30 PM to 6:15 PM – TMCC, 716 B
Session Type: Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
Organizer: ANNE-SOPHIE GUERNON
Participants: ANNE-SOPHIE GUERNON, Cynthia Lazzaroni, Emily Mendenhall, Rebecca Seligman, Ayo Wahlberg, Jessica Robbins-Panko, Megan Graham, Daisy Couture, Neda Maki, Jordan Hodgins, Elisa Cardamone
Perspectivizing health: Frictions and alliances in conjoint conversations
Reviewed by: Society for Medical Anthropology
Session Time: Nov 15, 4:15 PM to 6:00 PM
Session Type: Roundtable/Town Hall – Virtual Live
Organizer: Annette Leibing
Participants: Dominique Behague, Sahra Gibbon, Claudia Fonseca, Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte, Dominique Behague, Annette Leibing, Emilia Sanabria, Cíntia Engel, Helen Gonçalves
Note: Includes discussion of culture and dementia
Thursday
Transitions in Death and Dying (Part 1)
Session Time: 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM – TMCC 802 B.
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Sabrina Lessard
Paticipants: Sylvie Fortin, Ellen Badone, Sylvie Fortin, Caitlin Cassady, Louise Chartrand, Marie-Eve Samson, Alyson Stone, Rachel Cummings
Transitions in Death and Dying (part 2) Organizer: Sabrina Lessard
Session Time: 2:15 PM to 4:00 PM; TMCC 802 B
Session Type: Oral Presentaton Session
Participants: Sabrina Lessard, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Jill Jie’en Tan, Callie Daniels-Howell, Tiina Maripuu, Josiane Le Gall, Sabrina Lessard, Melina Economou, Maija Buters
Life Course Transformations, Categories, Care, and Marginalization
Session Time: 4:15 PM to 6:00 PM – TMCC, 206 E
Session Type: Oral Presentaion Session
Organizer: John M. Coggeshall
Paticipants: John M. Coggeshall, Annie Preaux, Alexandra Crampton, H M Ashraf Al
Paper: Alexandra Crampton: “Fears of Falling: Transition Avoidance in “Deep Old” Age.”
How to Die Well in the 21st Century: Reconnecting with the earth through concepts of death
Session Time: 4:30 PM to 6:15 PM – TMCC 716 B
Session Type: Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
Organizer: Bobi Steel
Participants: Bobi Steel, Troy Fielder, Marie Lecuyer, Nikki Shaner-Bradford, Mathew Engelke
FRIDAY
Beyond “Lonely Death”: Communication and Engagement in Japan’s Aging Society
Session Time: 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM – TMCC 802B
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Shiu Hong Simon Tu
Paticipants: Iza Kavedzija, Gordon Mathews, Aaron Hames, Isaac Gagne, Celia Spoden, Shiu Hong Simon.
To be or not to be: Maintaining anthropological identity and identifying as an anthropologist in a clinical education setting
Organizer: Iveris Martinez
Type: Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
Time: 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM – TMCC, 713 A
Iveris Martinez, Jay Sokolovsky, Patricia Hudelson, Mirko Pasquini, Chelsea Wentworth, Kathleen Rice, Amy Paul-Ward
Note: Includes discussion of anthropologists training med students and doctors in geriatric medicine and care systems.
Urban Encounters, Narratives, and Creative Practices
Session Time: 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM
Type: Oral Presentation Session
Paper by Yvonne Wallace: “Between Decline and Vitality: Aging in Downtown Edmonton, Alberta.”
*Interlocutor special event, TCMM -709
12:15 – 1:45PM –
A celebration of new books,/research and an interlocutor event led by Jay Sokolovsky and Maria Cattell. They will interview Andrea Charise and Celeste Pang, members of the award winning, “Resemblage Project: Remixing Scarborough’s Stories of Aging,” set in ethnic Toronto: : https://resemblageproject.ca
Saturday:
Cradles to Graves: Anthropology of Life Cycles
Session Time: 8:00 AM to 9:45AM – TMCC– 205C
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Lauren Beard
Participants: Lauren Beard, Anne Aronsson, Jocie Osika, Mikaela Chase
*AAA Interest Group on Aging and the Life Course Invited Session:
“Transitions in Later Life” organised by Ellen Badone and Cati Coe will be Saturday, 10:30-12:00 – TMCC 802 B.
Familial Transitions: Transfers of Property, Merit, and Care in Rural Sri Lanka
Michele Gamburd (Portland State University)
Agency Images of Care: Partiality and Pedagogy about Aging Transitions
Cati Coe and Sheridan Conty (Carleton University)
Transitioning into Long-Term Care Ellen Badone (McMaster University)
Clinical Encounters with Difficult Transitions: Reading Dementia Care from Chart Notes
Janelle S. Taylor (University of Toronto)
Discussant: Elana Buch (University of Iowa)
*General Business Meeting: AAA Interest Group on Aging and the Life Course. Including awarding of the the inaugural Christine Fry graduate student travel award
12:15-1:30PM – Room: TMCC 716A
Health in Transition: Digital Technologies and Data Shaping the Future of Healthcare Event:
Organizer: Tanja Ahlin
Type: Executive Oral Presentation Session – In-Person
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:45 PM: TMCC, Hall G – MI
Paticipants: Claudia Lang, Nafis Hasan, Sandra Bärnreuther, Lucilla Barcheta, Claudia Lang, Tanja Ahlin, Roanne van Voorst
Global Aging: Identity, Intimacy, and Care during Demographic Transitions
Session Time: 4:15 PM to 6:00 PM, TMCC, 716 B
Session Type: Roundtable/Town Hall – In-Person
Organizer: Claudia Huang
Participants: Mara Buchbinder, Janelle S. Taylor, Cati Coe, Sarah Lamb, Claudia Huang, MUKTA SHARANGPANI, Iza Kavedzija
Sunday
Decolonizing Gerontology and Geriatrics through Anthropological Epistemologies and Ethics
Session Time: 12:45:00 PM to 1:45:00 PM – TMCC, 701 A
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Alexandra Crampton
Paticipants: Alexandra Crampton, Angela R. Y. Zhang, Casey Golomski, Brooke Jespersen, Jean Schensul, Briteny Howell, M. Aaron Guest, Tam Perry
