Seniors 2019
Conferences, Meetings, Events
25-27 June 2018
COMET 2018, Birmingham, UK
Poster: Age.Vol.A.: Ageing, Volunteers, Assistants. Multilingual tools for assisting the ageing
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/mds-cpd/conferences/comet-2018/i...
16 October 2018
Tavola Rotonda: Anziani e assistenza domiciliare di lingua straniera nella provincia di Varese.
(Round table: Seniors and Foreign Language care assistants in the province of Varese)
29 November, 1 December 2018
Knowledge Dissemination, Ethics and Ideology in Specialised Communication: Linguistic and Discursive Perspectives
Panel: Ageing Issues, Ethics and Ideology: Discursive Reflections and Dissemination Strategies
https://www.iulm.it/wps/wcm/connect/iulmit/iulm-it/news-e-eventi/notizie...
9-10 April 2019
Seniors, Foreign Caregivers, Families, Institutions: Linguistic and Multidisciplinary Perspectives
https://www.uninsubria.eu/events/seniors-foreign-caregivers-families-ins...
10 August 2019
Research Meeting on Institutional and Health Talk for Social Applications (RMIH), National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan.
Keynote speech: Linguistic resources to Improve Communication between the Aging, Caregiver and Institution. https://www.rmih2019tokyo.com
27-28 September 2019
Notte dei ricercatori 2019 (Researchers' Night 2019)
The Age.Vol.A. team presented the project to students and citizens of Varese during the Researchers’ Night event at the University of Insubria.
1-3 July 2020
Communication, Medicine, and Ethics Conference (COMET), Aalborg Universitet
“Sociolinguistic and statistical methods to improve health communication between the elderly, caregivers and institutions: The Age.Vol.A. Project”.
https://www.communication.aau.dk/research/dihm/events/comet2020/
29-30 October 2020
Ages2020. Age-specific issues: Language, Spaces, Technology.
29-30 April 2021
The International Online Workshop on Language in Healthy and Pathological Aging, Salamanca, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
“The Age.Vol.A. research project: Findings from a survey on caregivers, the elderly and their families in Northern Italy”
28-30 June 2021
COMET 2021
The 19th International Conference on Communication, Medicine, and Ethics (COMET) was hosted by the University of Insubria, Como, Italy, on 28-30 June 2021. The Age.Vol.A. team was the Organising Committee of the Conference, which gathered over 200 participants from all over the world. Prof Grego and Prof Vicentini were also the coordinators of the Age.Vol.A. project-related panel “Discriminaging. Discourses of health discrimination based on age”. The Post-COMET Masterclass was held by Srikant Sarangi on 1 July 2021.
15-17 June 2022
6th Estidia conference, University of Alicante, Spain
“The Age.Vol.A App and Weportal: Bridging the communicative gap between the elderly, their families and foreign caregivers”
13-15 July 2022
20th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET 2022), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
“Introducing Age.Vol.A: digital tools to promote communication between seniors, foreign caregivers and families”
14 October 2022
Age.Vol.A. Closing Event. Presentation and discussion of the project results.
University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
https://www.uninsubria.it/eventi/progetto-di-ricerca-agevola-evento-conc...
23 October 2022
International Conference on Discourse Studies Across Disciplines (ICDSAD), Sheikhbahaee University, Isfahan, Iran
“Applying (Socio)Linguistics, Statistics and Translation Studies to Facilitate Communication Between the Elderly, Their Families and Foreign Caregivers”