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Week of November 5, 2023

Risk reduction and influencing behaviour change: delving into the World Alzheimer Report 2023

Alzheimer Disease International (ADI) invites you to a webinar on ADI's World Alzheimer Report 2023 on risk reduction. Leading experts will take a further look at key risk factors including head injury, hearing loss, lack of physical activity, and brain health. This will be followed by an open Q&A where the panellists will answer your questions. The webinar will be delivered by Zoom.  Visit the webpage for more details, panellist bios, and to register.

Webinar Series: Living Your Best Retirement Life

Members of CURAC are invited to attend the first of 4 Webinars via Zoom on November 8, hosted by the Dalhousie University Association of Retirees and Pensioners. The speaker for the webinar series is Dr. Susan Hutchinson, recently retired from Dalhousie.  You can read her recent publication entitled 'Re-imagining yourself after retirement' in CURAC’s Academic for Life column in University Affairs.

CURAC LLL: Understanding the Energy Transition at the Intersection of Policy , Business, and Technology

In this talk, hosted by the University of Calgary, Dr. Sara Hastings-Simon will explore the interaction between policy, business, and technology as drivers of energy transition with examples, including the history and key mechanisms of energy and climate policy and important policies today, the role of incumbent industries during transition, and the factors shaping the pace of technological change including the need to manage the “mid-transition”.