talks & media

Media coverage

Guest on CBC Radio morning shows across Canada, profiling the new National Resource Centre on 2SLGBTQI Aging. November 21, 2022. Including Daybreak South: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-110-daybreak-south/clip/15950002-seniors-lgbtq-services-theme-song-ageing-go-public?share=true [min. 3:15-9:03]

Research featured in Xtra article, “Finding dementia care is exhausting—especially if you’re queer or trans”, by Tobin Ng. September 2022. https://xtramagazine.com/health/dementia-lgbtq2s-235220

Guest on CTV “Your Morning”, profiling research and work on removing barriers to dementia care for 2SLGBTQI people living with dementia. June 2022. CTV Your Morning | S6:E198 | Removing barriers to dementia care

Guest on CBC Radio morning shows across Canada, profiling research on long-term care and dementia. June 2022. Including Superior Morning: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-391-superior-morning/clip/15918924-celeste-pang-lgbtq-seniors

Podcast interviewee on Dementia Dialogues, “From Research to Action on 2SLGBTQI & Dementia”. October 2021. https://dementiadialogue.podbean.com/e/from-research-to-action/

Invited speaking

Guest Lecturer, “Ethics in Research with People Living Cognitive Disability & Difference.” Ethnographic Methods, Department of Anthropology, Mount Royal University. 10 November 2022.

Invited Speaker, “Security, Accessibility, and Community: Housing Needs and Considerations Among LGBTQI Older Adults in Canada.” Rainbow Resource Centre Planning with Pride conference. Virtual, 2 November 2022.

Invited Speaker, “Acting in Allyship with 2SLGBTQI People Living with Dementia.” Sinai Health Geriatrics Institute Education Day. Virtual, 14 June 2022.

Roundtable Participant, “Turning Up the Volume on 2SLGBTQI Needs in the Dementia Space.” Alzheimer Society of Canada “Dementia Talks” series. 22 June 2022. https://alzheimer.ca/en/help-support/dementia-resources/dementia-talks-canada/video-turning-volume-2slgbtqi-needs-dementia

Invited Speaker, “Supporting Gender and Sexual Fluidity in Long-Term Care.” Allied for Inclusivity in Long-Term Care: A Forum to Build Connections. Ontario Centres for Learning, Research & Innovation in Long-Term Care, 09 February 2022.

Guest Lecturer, “Queer Perspective on Aging and Social Policy in Canada.” Social Work and Aging Policy, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. 14 February 2022.

Guest Lecturer, “What is Ethnography? Exploring LGBTQ Older Adults’ Experiences of Aging & Care”. Inquiry Studies, University of Prince Edward Island. 29 September 2021.

Guest, Long-Term Care and Aging in Place. Rainbow Table. 21 September 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtOhgcM_wDw

Guest Lecturer, “Queer Aging and Disability Justice”. Anthropology of Activism and Social Justice, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto. 3 December 2020.

Guest Lecturer, “Anthropology and Storytelling.” Creative Research Practice in Aging, Department of Health and Society, University of Toronto Scarborough. 29 October 2020.

Guest Lecturer, “Questioning Social Isolation”. Social-Cultural Anthropology and Global Issues, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto. 20 May 2020.

Guest Lecturer, “Queer Relations and ‘Knowing’ in the Field”. Social Scientific Approaches & Queer Methods, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto. 2 August 2018.

Roundtable participant, “Queer Aging and Community Health”. Mark S. Bonham Center for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto. 17 November 2017.

Selected recent presentations

Pang, C. and Maclennan, E. (2022). Housing Possibilities for Aging LGBTQI Communities. Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC) Summit 2022: Pushing Possibilities, Virtual, 20 October.

Pang, C. and Flanagan, A. (2022). Transforming Research into Collective Action: Developing a Knowledge Mobilization Strategy to Enhance Support for 2SLGBTQI People Living with Dementia and their Unpaid Carers in Canada. Canadian Association on Gerontology: Closing the Research-Practice Gap, Regina, SK, 21 October.

Pang, C. (2021). Roundtable Participant. “Precarious Connections: Exploring Social Disconnection Across the Life Course”. Invited Session at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD, 20 November.

Pang, C. (2021). Ageism and Heteronormativity: Troubling Tropes of Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Age. International Federation on Ageing. 15th Global Conference on Ageing: Rights Matter. Niagara Falls, ON, 10 November.

Pang, C. (2021). Cultivating Queer Intimacies: Reflections on Friendship and Affirmation in Long-Term Care. Canadian Association on Gerontology: Hindsight 20/20: Looking Back for a Vision Forward in Gerontology. Virtual, 22 October.

Flanagan, A. and Pang, C. (2021). She’s Not My Mother: Queer Kinships and Solidarity in Dementia and Dementia Care. Canadian Association on Gerontology. Canadian Association on Gerontology: Hindsight 20/20: Looking Back for a Vision Forward in Gerontology. Virtual, 22 October.

Pang, C. (2021). Situating Long-Term Care as a Question of Housing and Homelessness. Summit 2021, Community Based Research Centre (CBRC) annual conference. Virtual, 28 October.

Pang, C. (2019). I Never Said I Didn’t: Coherent Selfhood and Challenges of Consent. Joint Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropology Society. Vancouver, BC, 21 November.

Pang, C. (2019). Social Isolation and Aging with HIV: Crip and Queer Reorientations. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. Portland, OR, 20 March.

Pang, C. (2019). Trans Temporalities and Queer Crafts of Care. “Arts of Caring, Arts of Knowing: A Workshop on Dementia and Knowledge Practices”. Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-20 September.

Pang, C. (2018). Scenes of Doubt: Senility, Queerness, and the Binds of Care. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. San Jose, CA, 14November.

Hanson, D., Pang, C., McLeod, J., Springall, E., Kulasegaram, K. and Eva, K. (2018). Engaging Patients in Health Professions Education Admissions: A Scoping Review of Best Practices, Policies, and Research. Paper presented at AMEE (The Association for Medical Education in Europe) Annual Conference, Basel, Switzerland, 28 August. 

Pang, C. & Gutman, G. (2017). Later and End of Life Care Concerns Among Trans Older Adults in Canada, with Gloria Gutman. Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health (CPATH) Fifth Biennial Conference. Vancouver, BC, 28 October.

Selected panel and conference organizing

Co-organizer. “Creativity and Aging”, Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life Course (AAGE) Biannual conference. Virtual “slow motion” conference series. June-August 2022. AAGE 2022: Conference Program – Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life Course (anthropologyandgerontology.com)

Panel Moderator. “Disability, Policing, and the Question of the Human”. Centre for Global Disability Studies Critical Conversations series, Virtual, 1 June 2022.

Organizer and Moderator. Methods Café: “Doing Aging Research in Pandemic Times” Roundtable. Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life Course (AAGE) Biannual Conference, (virtual, international), 28 June 2020.

Co-organizer. “Aging and Social Justice”, Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the
Life Course (AAGE) Biannual conference. June-August 2020. 2020 AAGE (slow) Conference: “Aging and Social Justice” – Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life Course (anthropologyandgerontology.com)

Panel Organizer and Chair. “Capacity and Consent in Relations of Care”, Joint Meeting of the American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropology Society, Vancouver, BC, 21 November 2019.

Panel Chair, Pedagogies of Biopower, Sexual Diversity Studies Research Colloquium, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, Toronto, ON, 29 March 2019.

Co-organizer. “Trans Temporality Conference 2016”. An independent initiative supported by the Mark S. Bonham for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. Toronto, ON, 3 April 2016.