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Media
Listen to, watch, or read some of Andrea’s media appearances.
2022 The Power of Greyscale
What gray hair says about us and the aging world we live in. [Featured Interview, 48 mins.] Wrinkle Radio.
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2022 Bending the Clock: New Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Aging
How might attending to the old, ageing, and obsolete help address newly emergent global crises, including the rise of populism and climate change? Roundtable podcast with Andrea Charise, Devoney Looser, Travis Chi Wing Lau and more.
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2020 “How to live in a pandemic” is the type of university class we need during COVID-19
Universities must fundamentally change their approach to teaching health-related knowledge. It is time to commit to “radical interdisciplinarity.”
The Conversation
2020 University Affairs: This fall, many instructors are teaching the pandemic.
Interview with Sharon Aschaiek.
University Affairs
2020 Rewriting Aging: In Conversation with Dr. Andrea Charise
In honour of National Seniors Day, and of the United Nations International Day of Older Persons, Dr. Charise talks about what Canadians can do to combat ageism.
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2019 Reframing Aging Through the Arts
“The longer we live our lives thinking about our own aging, the less likely we are to reproduce the conditions of an ageist society.” Interview with Leah Sandals for Culture Days.
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2017 Stop Dehumanizing Old People by Using the Phrase ‘Grey Tsunami’
Featured Interview with Michael Enright on CBC’s The Sunday Edition [24 mins]
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2017 The Art of Health: New Health Humanities Minor at U of T Scarborough
Celebrating the launch of Canada’s first undergraduate program in Health Humanities at UTSC with founding supervisor Professor Andrea Charise.
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2016 Andrea: Faces of Health Care
As a health humanities professor, Andrea teaches university students and health care providers how to use the arts to think about illness, death, aging and healing. As told to Healthy Debate.
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CBC’s The Sunday Edition: Stop dehumanizing old people by using the phrase “grey tsunami”
Andrea Charise, a professor at the University of Toronto, says the tsunami metaphor can have powerful—and sometimes tragic—consequences for the lives of elderly people. A featured interview with Michael Enright.