Keynote Speakers
Sally Chivers, PhD
Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario)
Dr. Sally Chivers is Full Professor of Gender & Social Justice at Trent University, where she is a Founding Executive Member and Past Director of the Trent Centre for Aging & Society. An award-winning interdisciplinary researcher best known for her path-building book The Silvering Screen, Dr. Chivers has published extensively on the social and cultural politics of health, aging, and disability. Her two monographs and two co-edited books draw on film, literary and qualitative analysis to demonstrate that the stories we tell about aging and disability can convey and even change the social and cultural structures governing people’s lives. Her scholarly podcast Wrinkle Radio, with its tag line “Don’t panic! It’s just aging,” amplifies age scholarship that reveals and resists how people learn to fear growing old.
