Registration Open!
AAGE Biennial Conference
May 8 – 10, 2026
Hosted at the University of Massachusetts Amherst*
Keynote Lecture on Friday, May 8
Dr. Nadine Changfoot
Full Professor of Political Studies, Trent University
Past Acting Director, Trent Centre for Aging & Society
Core Member, “Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology and Access to Life”
More on the Keynote Address:
Decolonial Relationalities and Aging: Digital Storytelling with Nishinaabeg of Wshkiigmong (Curve Lake First Nation, Treaty 20, Northern Turtle Island/Canada)
Nadine Changfoot (she/her/they): Nadine is a full professor at Trent University in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong (Treaty 20), Ontario, Northern Turtle Island now known as Canada. She is deeply moved by storytelling and creative methods and processes that bring to light experiences and visions for social equity and kinder, more livable worlds. The community of storytelling she finds especially heartening and powerful is where difference and intersectional experiences of aging, disability, race, Indigeneity, queer, and time can be safe, encouraged, and enlivened to express and take courageous risks in expression! She has published widely in journals of arts, community development, community engaged research, philosophy, political science, and sociology. Recent and current research involves Rethinking Artful Politics: Bodies of Difference Remaking Bodyworlds (2023) and Critical Methodologies in Dementia Studies (in-progress).
She enjoys movement of all kinds (hiking, dancing, swimming, …), music of all kinds, singing, playing piano, and supporting artists and diverse arts and culture in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong. She serves as Board Member on the Peterborough Arts Council, called EC3 (Electric City Culture Council).
The umbrella theme of this conference – the where and when of aging – is at once concrete and conceptual.
We welcome contributions on a wide range of topics, from specific contemporary issues to conceptions of time and space more broadly, in relation to aging in particular contexts.
We seek to foster innovations in practice, community, and scholarship through formal paper presentations, data labs and workshops, film and other artistic exhibitions, and assorted group activities for participants.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
– Care across distance, care near and far
– Aging amidst conflict and violence
– The experience of different temporalities
– The experience of diverse embodiments of aging (e.g., in relation to disability, Indigeneity, race, queerness, intergenerational engagements)
– The effects of climate change and environmental crises on aging
– Traditional forms, generational shifts
– Issues of movement and mobility
– Modes of fostering participatory research and collective action
– Modes of decolonizing
*Opportunities for online participation available. See submission portal for details.
Submission Types
I. Formal Papers
Standard conference papers, organized into thematic panels
either upon submission or collected together upon acceptance.
- Please submit title an abstract of approx. 250 words and indicate your preference for in-person or online presentation
or - Collect up to 4 papers under a panel theme – include title of panel and abstract, along with names of presenters, individual paper titles, and name of discussant (optional).
II. Works-in-Progress
Facilitated sessions (“data labs”) to workshop work in progress (in-person only).
- Please submit a brief description of fieldwork (place, time, research question), along with a story from your research that perturbs you and/or a question you want to bring to a group for collective discussion and mentorship. (approx. 500)
III. Film / Poster / Photo / Artistic Exhibitions
Screening rooms and poster exhibition halls will be available, with potential for other digital platforms, to share visual or auditory work.
- Please submit title, format (and running time, if applicable), and brief description (approx.. 250 words). Please list any previous festivals, screenings or exhibits, awards or recognitions.
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