Conferences, meetings, events

October 23th, 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”

October 14th, 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”

July 15-17th, 2022

6th Estidia conference, University of Alicante, Spain

“The Age.Vol.A App and Weportal: Bridging the communicative gap between the elderly, their 

June 28-30th, 2022

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.

April 29-30th, 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”

October 29-30th, 2020

Ages2020. Age-specific issues: Language, Spaces, Technology.

July 1-3rd, 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”.

September 27-28th, 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.

August 10th, 2019
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Tokyo2019 Agevola Brochure

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.  

Seniors 2019

November 29th - December 1st, 2018

Knowledge Dissemination, Ethics and Ideology in Specialised Communication: Linguistic and Discursive Perspectives 
Panel: Ageing Issues, Ethics and Ideology: Discursive Reflections and Dissemination Strategies 

October 16th, 2018
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Tavola rotonda (round table) brochure

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)

June 25-27th, 2018
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Poster COMET 2018

COMET 2018, Birmingham, UK
Poster: Age.Vol.A.: Ageing, Volunteers, Assistants. Multilingual tools for assisting the ageing