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Matthew Albert
Victoria Young Australian of the Year 2005 - Recipient
Overseeing Co-ordinator and Founder
Sudanese Australian Integrated Learning (SAIL) Program

When aged 20, Matthew Albert co-founded the Sudanese Australian Integrated Learning (SAIL) Program which now engages almost 300 volunteers weekly at three campuses across Melbourne. The SAIL Program supports the fastest growing ethnic community in Victoria, the Sudanese refugee community. The SAIL Program provides free services including tutoring, home help, camps and excursions to about 450 people every week. Matthew remains the overseeing co-ordinator of the Program.

Matthew is also the Founding Director of the Sudanese Online Research Association; an online advocacy centre for the global Sudanese diaspora.

In 2004, Matthew worked for the United Nations' High Commissioner for Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya and at the Kakuma Refugee camp.

Matthew is regularly published on issues concerning refugees, migration policy and African affairs including in the Melbourne Age and Eureka Street.

Throughout 2005, Matthew has toured Australia for speaking engagements and at the showing of the exhibition of his photography that is currently touring to Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane.

Matthew was recently appointed, for a term of three years, to be Australia's representative to the Commonwealth of Nations for development programs for youth across the Pacific Region.

Matthew works full-time for the Victorian Government Solicitors' Office as an Articled Clerk, as well as being the research assistant to the Solicitor General for Victoria in her role as legal adviser to the Victorian Human Rights Consultative Committee.

Matthew Albert is the 2005 Victorian Young Australian of the Year and was recently named by the Junior Chamber International as one of the Ten Most Outstanding Young People of the World in 2005 for his "contributions to children, world peace and human rights".

ABSTRACT

Crossing gaps; Sudanese, Australian, young, old

The Sudanese Australian Integrated Learning (SAIL) Program is the largest Sudanese-specific-organisation in Australasia. It engages over 300 volunteers on a weekly basis ranging in age from 15 to 85, and provides services to members of the Sudanese refugee community of all ages. In this presentation, the organisation's founder, now aged 25 joins one of Melbourne's Sudanese elders to discuss how generational differences are negotiated in their volunteer, social support setting. In particular, issues of cultural difference both between generations and between people of different backgrounds will be discussed. The focus of the presentation will be the ways that age-difference have been side-lined by other more pressing concerns and how the background of the Sudanese community feeds  into this unique phenomenon."

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Hon Alison Anderson MP
Northern Territory

Hon Alison Anderson 

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Paul Briggs
Chairman
Rumbalara Football and Netball Club Shepparton
Board member of First Nations Credit Union

Paul Briggs is an inspirational community leader from the Greater Shepparton region.  He is a Yorta Yorta man who has been instrumental in the advancement of Australia’s Indigenous people for many years with key involvement in numerous organisations and movements covering education, sport, health, employment, youth, justice, community capacity building, reconciliation, politics, land and cultural issues and leadership.

He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal earlier this year and has been recognised in recent years for his leadership qualities and tireless community work receiving several state and national awards and accolades.

His current official positions include:

  • First Nations Australian Credit Union – Chairman
  • Rumbalara Football/Netball Club – President
  • Common Fate Endorsed – co-founder
  • University of Melbourne Council - Councillor
  • Premier’s Drug Prevention Council - board member
  • Victorian Qualifications Authority – founding board member
  • Coalition of Australian Governments (COAG) – steering committee member

When Paul’s not out at the Rumbalara Football/Netball Club grounds during footy season, or travelling the Hume Hwy back and forth to Melbourne in an effort to bridge the country-city gap, Paul works tirelessly in Shepparton to improve the life of Aboriginal people in his community, and when he’s not working, Paul likes to relax with his family and friends. He lives in Shepparton with his wife Kaye and he has five children and five grandchildren.

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Donna M. Butts
Executive Director
Generations United

Donna M. Butts

Since 1997, Donna Butts has served as the Executive Director of Generations United, the only national membership organization focused solely on promoting intergenerational policies, strategies and programs. GU represents more than 100 national, state, and local organizations representing more than 70 million Americans, and houses the National Center on Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children.  GU’s mission is to improve the lives of children, youth, and older people through intergenerational collaboration, public policies, and programs.  With over 30 years of experience working with non-profit organizations Donna has championed the effort for children, youth and senior organizations to work together promoting intergenerational programs and combating efforts to pit the generations against each other.

Prior to her leadership at Generations United, Donna was the Executive Director of the National Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting and Prevention.  Additionally, she has directed a W.K. Kellogg Foundation-funded state relations project for the National 4-H Council and worked at Covenant House’s national office developing and consulting on programs for runaway and homeless youth in the USA and abroad. Further, Donna was director of development and public relations for the Salem, Oregon YWCA where she created an innovative street outreach program for youth in at risk situations for the City of Salem and began her career coordinating a crisis hotline.

In 1998 Donna was appointed by, then Health and Human Services Secretary, Donna Shalala to serve on the National Kinship Care Advisory Panel. She serves on several boards including the International Consortium of Intergenerational Programmes and is an accomplished author and speaker. Her book chapters have recently been included in Intergenerational Program Strategies from a Global Perspective; Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Theoretical, Empirical and Clinical Perspectives; and Get Organized: A Guide to Preventing Teen Pregnancy.  She has given testimony on Capitol Hill, presented at Congressional briefings, and addressed numerous international, national, state, and local conferences.

A graduate of Marylhurst College, Donna was selected to participate in Stanford University’s second Executive Program for Non-Profit Leaders. She was honored in 2004 with the National Council on the Aging’s Jack Ossofsky award for leadership, creativity and innovation in programs and services for older persons. Recently she was selected as an at large delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging.

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Professor John Carlson
 Director
University Research Centre for Ageing, Rehabilitation, Exercise & Sport 
Victoria University

 

 

 

 

Professor John Carlson

Professor John Carlson is the inaugural Holder of the Jack Refshauge Chair in Human Movement Studies and is the Director of the University Research Centre for Ageing, Rehabilitation, Exercise & Sport at Victoria University.

He has researched and published in the area of Exercise & Sport Science for over 25 years. His expertise is in the area of Exercise Physiology and the effects of exercise on the human health well being and performance. His interests span the lifecycle with research conducted on Preadolescent girls and boys in which he studies their bones and exercise capabilities through and upto "older adults" playing golf with a view to preventing injury and enhancing performance. Professor Carlson also has a very keen interest in positive aspects of aging and the impact of physical activity and exercise on these processes

Abstract:

Intergenerational Sporting Excellence: Nurture , Nature or Nonsense?  

This paper will examine a number of instances in which successful sporting parents or grand parents produce equally talented and elite level performing children or offspring. This intergenerational sporting excellence will be examined from differing perspectives as to the merits of arguments that suggest that it is just “in the genes” as opposed to the argument that it is due to environment in which children are raised by their talented parents. This paper will not only explore different aspects of the nature vs nurture argument to explain sporting excellence, but will also explore the role that parents and environmental factors have on children’s general sport and physical activity participation.

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Prof Narender Chadha
University of Delhi

 

 

 

 

Prof Narender Chadha

Prof. Dr. Narender Chadha is a Professor of Psychology at University of Delhi, India teaching since 1981. He has published 15 books, 89 research articles in various National and International scientific journals. He has supervised 26 doctoral level theses and awarded various scholarships from the Indian government, University of Auckland (New Zealand), DAAD (Germany), MSH (France), University of Kentucky and Virginia Universities in USA. He is an editorial board member of large number of national and international journals of repute. He is a behavioural science consultant to number of Multiple National Companies for middle level and top level management positions. He has widely travelled to various countries for different academic assignments.

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Dr Susan Feldman
Victoria University

Dr Susan Feldman
 PhD, MA (Psychosocial Politics), BA (Hons)  

Susan Feldman is the Director of The Alma Unit for Research on Ageing: Gender and Health Across the Life Span. She is also the founding Director of The Alma Unit for Women and Ageing. Both of these research and teaching units are located with the Centre for Ageing, Rehabilitation, Exercise and Sport in Victoria University’s Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow – University Of Melbourne, Centre for the Study of Health and Society and has an undergraduate degree in Film Theory, an MA in Psychosocial Politics and holds a PhD from Sydney University. 

The Alma Unit for Women and Ageing —established in 1994 at the University of Melbourne—was Australia’s first multi-disciplinary research and teaching unit dedicated to promoting an understanding of the health and wellbeing of ageing women in Australia and internationally. As the Unit’s Director Susan has worked to identify the range and nature of health and wellbeing issues facing older women including the policy and educational responses which will enhance the health and well being of this growing sector of society.

The work within The Alma Unit has expanded to include research on gender issues across the life span for older women and men from a range of cultural backgrounds and experiences. Her current special research interests are the life style issues facing older women and men from multicultural backgrounds, including physical, emotional and mental health and wellbeing. She also has a keen interest in the relationships between generations and the impact that they have on the wellbeing of individuals, family and community.

She has had 20 years experience working in direct service delivery in the community. She worked for 10 years in Government undertaking program management and policy development in the health and welfare fields, particularly in the area of homelessness, the redevelopment of the major night shelters in Melbourne, in the area of family violence both in direct service delivery and planning and evaluation.

Her books include: A Certain Age: Women Growing Older, 1999 Allen & Unwin, Melbourne Something that Happens to Other People 1996 Random House, and Family Violence: Everybody’s Business, Somebody’s Life. 1991 Melbourne, Federation Press

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Amy Goyer
National Coordinator
AARP Foundation Grandparent Information Center
Washington, D.C.

 

Amy Goyer
Amy Goyer has been involved in intergenerational issues and programs at the local, state, and national levels for over 20 years.  Ms. Goyer has been with AARP since 1994, and is currently National Coordinator of the AARP Foundation Grandparent Information Center (GIC), which provides information and referral and engages in a variety of initiatives to support grandparents in their various roles and caregiving responsibilities.  Ms. Goyer acts as a national spokesperson, authors publications, coordinates GIC customer service and leads collaborative projects.  She has spoken and written widely on aging, intergenerational issues and grandparenting, and has appeared on the NBC Nightly News, the PBS Nightly Business Report, and the CBS Early Show.  Ms. Goyer serves on boards and advisory councils of several international, national and local organizations, including the American Society on Aging, the National Council on Aging, Generations United and the International Consortium of Intergenerational Programmes. 

Previously, she served as Intergenerational Coordinator for AARP, held various positions at the Ohio Department of Aging, including leading the Governor’s statewide Intergenerational Initiative, and has also worked in adult day health centers and nursing homes in Columbus, Ohio.  Ms. Goyer is a graduate of Ohio University. 

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Dr Michele Grossman
Associate Dean (Research and Research Training), Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development
Victoria University

 

Dr Michele Grossman

Michele Grossman is Associate Dean (Research and Research Training) in the Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development at Victoria University in Melbourne and teaches in Literary Studies, Professional Writing and the postgraduate program in Communication and Writing with a particular focus on cultural difference and theories of writing and textuality. Her research interests focus especially on Aboriginal writing, representation and culture; the politics of cross-cultural representation; orality, literacy and modernity; and intellectual and cultural property issues for Indigenous Australian writers. She is the recipient of a Canadian High Commission Faculty Research Fellowship for 2006/2007 on Canadian Aboriginal and Indigenous Australian contemporary oral cultures. Dr Grossman’s most recent book is (as ed.) Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians, Melbourne University Press, 2003. She has published scholarly essays and criticism in books and journals including Australian Humanities Review, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies, Meanjin, Minnesota Review, Women's Writing, Meridian and Arena. Dr Grossman has been the Reviews Editor for the journal Postcolonial Studies since 1998, and was co-editor of Australian Women's Book Review from 1992 to 1994. She has twice been a judge and panel convenor for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards in the area of New/Innovative Writing. In 2003 she was awarded the university-wide Vice-Chancellor's Medal for Excellence in Research Supervision.  She received her PhD from Monash University on the textual politics and management of orality and literacy in Indigenous Australian life-writing.  Since early 2005 she has been a weekly volunteer with the Sudanese-Australian Integrated Learning Program in Melbourne’s West, working primarily with adult Sudanese women who are recent arrivals under Australia’s humanitarian intake program for refugees. 

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Prof Elizabeth Harman
Vice-Chancellor and President
Victoria University

Professor Elizabeth (Liz) Harman has been Vice-Chancellor and President of Victoria University since October 2003. She was born and educated in New Zealand and completed her PhD in Canada in 1976.

She has worked as a policy analyst on economic development for a Canadian federal department; held a teaching position at Murdoch University and was seconded from the University as a Ministerial Adviser on economic issues for the WA Government in the offices of the Deputy Premier and Premier. From 1998 to 2003 she was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Edith Cowan University. Professor Harman has held senior positions on the executive and boards of public agencies, including the Water Authority of Western Australia, Royal Perth Hospital Board and the WA State Planning Commission. She was a member of the Federal Prices Surveillance Authority (now part of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.) Professor Harman has published on a wide range of policy issues, including industry policy, minerals and energy, trade, education, public sector reform, government accountability and the Australian competition policy.

Professor Harman is a Board Member of The Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, which provides a national focus for the enhancement of learning and teaching in Australian higher education institutions and is a flagship for acknowledging excellence in learning and teaching.

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Alan Hatton-Yeo

Alan Hatton-Yeo

Educated as a chemist before retraining as a special education teacher. Worked in the field of education for seventeen years with roles including Head Teacher, College Principal and Principal Education Officer of the Spastics Society for England and Wales. Following a period as a consultant managed the restructuring programme for the British Red Cross and then joined the Beth Johnson Foundation as Chief Executive in March 1998.

The Foundation is one of the leading UK organisations pioneering new approaches to ageing through action research. In the last three years roles have included: Director of the UK Centre for Intergenerational Practice, Secretary of the United Kingdom Older People’s Advocacy Alliance, Member of the UK Mentoring Strategy Group and Secretary of the Management Committee of the International Consortium for Intergenerational Programmes.

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Hon Gavin Jennings, MLC
Minister for Aged Care and Aboriginal Affairs
Minister responsible for Senior Victorians

Gavin was born in Melbourne in April 1957. His family moved to country Victoria when he was in primary school and Gavin completed his secondary education at the Beaufort High School. After this taste of education, Gavin thought he would return to Melbourne to study at University. Completing a Bachelor of Arts in 1978 at Monash University he didn’t tire of the higher education scene and completed a Bachelor of Social Work at the University of Melbourne in 1981.

He then worked his way through a variety of jobs, trying to balance a need for money with his commitment to social justice and environmental causes. A jack of all trades, Gavin was a Factory Worker, Actuarial Clerk, Actor, Social Worker and Policy Analyst before becoming Ministerial Adviser to the Hon. Kay Setches from 1988 until 1990.

Having seen and been a part of what a progressive Government could do, he then advised premiers John Cain and Joan Kirner on social policy and the environment until 1992. At that time, Victorian Labor's achievements in these fields were second to none across Australia.

With progressive Government temporarily dying as a concept in Victoria in 1992, Gavin moved on to become an Industrial Officer with Public Transport Union, Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union. He then worked in the same role with the Electrical Trade Union from 1994 until he was elected in a by-election to the Legislative Council in 1999.

In the past twenty years of his working life Gavin has tried to develop a well rounded policy framework, to enable him to consider and consult on most political issues. Working on projects such as MetPlan and his background in youth work and social work with the Aboriginal Health Service in Fitzroy has given him an appreciation of how important it is for Government to support and assist communities.

Gavin has played a leading role in the ALP, working in several party forums to ensure Labor regained office. He still enjoys a strong connection with the Public Transport Union and the Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union as well as the Electrical Trades Union. He has benefited enormously from close personal and working relationships with people who share the commitment to achieving better outcomes for workers and their families.

He now performs the role of the Minister for Aged Care and Aboriginal Affairs, as well as Deputy Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council. Through these roles Gavin will show that Labor can govern in a financially stable and secure fashion while nurturing a caring and enriching life for all Victorians.

With these portfolio responsibilities, Gavin will look to ensure that older Victorians enjoy a healthy, active and engaging future. He will also endeavour to meet the needs of Aboriginal people and find a way forward after acknowledging the wrongs of the past.

Gavin is also a Bombers supporter, and still finds it hard to talk about the fact that they only won one premiership after dominating the league for several seasons in the late 1990’s.

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Bernard Korbman
 Director of Education
The Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre

Bernard Korbman is currently the Director of the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre in Melbourne Australia.

Bernard's professional qualifications are in philosophy, art and education.  During a twenty-five year career as a secondary teacher, he has taught Philosophy, Religion and Society, Art, History, English and Media Studies.

Bernard has given lectures in Holocaust History and Education at a number of universities and institutions both in Australia and over seas.

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Valerie S. Kuehne
University of Victoria
British Columbia

Valerie S. Kuehne, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care and Associate Vice-President Academic Planning at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. She has been investigating relationships between older adults and youth for more than 15 years, in both the United States and Canada. With a background in pediatric nursing and professional experience working with all age groups, Dr. Kuehne has researched intergenerational relationships as they occur in families and in various community contexts, such as schools, child day care centers, and adult day care centers. She has edited two books, including the first focused on intergenerational program research.  Dr. Kuehne has also written more than 20 publications that have appeared in such journals as Development Psychology, International Journal of Aging and Human Development, Journal of Applied Gerontology, Child and Youth Care Forum, and Child & Youth Services (The Haworth Press, Inc.). She is frequently sought out for her expertise in intergenerational program research and serves as a speaker and consultant to community and university groups around North America.

ABSTRACT

TRANSFORMATION FOR A LIFETIME

Over the years, a growing research literature has documented many of the life changing outcomes described and demonstrated by intergenerational program participants.  These outcomes can represent real advances in skills, knowledge, and personal development, and can enhance mental and physical health.  For young people, the outcomes of program participation can change directions that endure over a lifetime.  For example, every day in intergenerational programs around the world, children learn to read because of school-based relationships with older adults; they contribute to community development projects that enhance the daily lives of whole neighbourhoods; and they are cared for by committed grandparents or community elders who meet their needs, often under adverse circumstances and at personal cost.

In this presentation, contemporary research findings in this area will be presented using examples based in the field.  Discussion will include ways in which those involved in intergenerational programs can better document and disseminate the potentially transformational outcomes that can result from intergenerational program participation.

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Lawry Mahon  
Victoria University 

Lawry Mahon, Lecturer School of Education Victoria University and coordinator of Nyerna Studies University Echuca site.

 He has had many years experience working with literacy and has a keen interest and experience of issues confronting indigenous people, not only in Australia but internationally. He is the initiator and coordinator of the Story Writing in Remote Locations – the SWIRL project and spends 2-3 months year in remote areas of central Australia.

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SUPPORTING INDIGINOUS AUSTRALIANS: Story Writing in Remote Locations – (S.W.I.R.L.)

This live link up will provide you with the opportunity to interact with members of the remote community of Areyonga 230 KM West of Alice Springs in central Australia.

This half hour visual and audio presentation will include an introductory DVD that sets the scene. You will then meet through live video link the Hon Alison Anderson Aboriginal woman member of Northern Territory parliament and Areyonga elder woman Theresa Nipper. They will introduce themselves and their country to you and talk about the issues confronting their communities in particular access to literacy and educational programmes.

Alison and Theresa will talk about the future plans for their communities that may of course involve all of us. The women will also talk about their hopes for the future generations of younger Areyonga people to mainstream Australia.

Lawry Mahon, Lecturer School of Education Victoria University who will also be located in Areyonga at that time, will set the context for the Story Writing in Remote Locations programme ( SWIRL), established in 1996 - now in its 11th year.

This project has been supported by Northern Territory and Federal Governments, IBM Australia and Victoria University

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 Prof John McCallum
 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education Programs) 
  and Director TAFE
 Victoria University

McCALLUM, John. BEcon (Qld), BEcon Hons Psych (Qld), MPhil (Oxford), DPhil (Oxford). Centenary of Federation Medal. 2003. Panel A.

Professor JOHN McCALLUM is currently the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education Programs) and Director, TAFE at Victoria University. He is a widely reported spokesperson on health and ageing in Australia and makes regular national and international contributions to academic policy debates in this area. He has wide experience in academic life and on national and international committees -

  • selected for National Service officer training in 1971, appointed as Second-in-Command of the Arms and Services Company in Goldie River, Papua New Guinea and in 1972 appointed Employment Officer at Bougainville Copper, Bougainville Island in PNG;
  • completed Economics and Psychology and was a University medallist at the University of Queensland and completed Masters and Doctoral studies at Nuffield College, Oxford University, UK;
  • worked at Griffith University, the Research School of Social Sciences and the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University, the Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California, Nanzan University in Nagoya and the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, both in Japan, and University of Western Sydney as Dean, responsible for social sciences and health;
  • major research publications and projects in the areas of ageing, health services research, health outcome measures and vietnam Veterans' health and works regularly in Japan, ASEAN countries and the USA;
  • a leader in ageing research, Director of the Dubbo Longitudinal Study for fifteen years as well as other national projects including the Australia-Japan Collaboration in Aged Care and the international Asset and Health Dynamics of the "Old" Old (AHEAD) project;
  • a member of the NHMRC Australian Health Ethics Committee for the last two terms as well as a member of the NHMRC Health Advisory Committee and many other major national and international committees;
  • in 2002 he was a member of the core group who wrote the Myer Foundation Report "2020 - a Vision for Aged Care in Australia";
  • in 2003 he was awarded a Federation Medal "for outstanding service as a researcher to ageing and aged care issues".


Research Keywords:
Ageing research, longitudinal studies, social policy, informal social support, validation of survey instruments

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Dr Rob Moodie
CEO
VicHealth 

Dr Rob Moodie has been CEO of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation since 1998. He graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1976 and later trained in Tropical Medicine at Paris University and Public Health at Harvard University.

Since 1979 he has worked for Save the Children Fund, Medicins Sans Frontieres, Congress (the community-controlled Aboriginal Health Service in Alice Springs), and for WHO, UNDP and UNAIDS in Uganda, Cameroon and Geneva. 

Dr Moodie is Chair of the Premier's Drug Prevention Council, a member of several boards, and he has professorial appointments in public health at Melbourne and Monash Universities. He is co-editor of three books, including Hands on Health Promotion.

Dr Moodie was named 2005 Victorian Father of the Year by the Father's Day Council of Victoria for his work in promoting community health.

 Dr Harry R. Moody
Director 
Academic Affairs for AARP

Harry R. Moody is currently Director of Academic Affairs for AARP. 

Dr. Moody is the author of over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a number of books including: Abundance of Life: Human Development Policies for an Aging Society (Columbia University Press, 1988); Ethics in an Aging Society (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992); and Aging: Concepts and Controversies, a gerontology textbook now in its 3rd edition. His most recent book, The Five Stages of the Soul, was published by Doubleday Anchor Books (1997) and has been translated into seven languages worldwide.

A graduate of Yale (1967) and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University (1973), Dr. Moody taught philosophy at Columbia, Hunter College, New York University, and the University of California at Santa Cruz. From 1999 to 2001 he served as National Program Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Faith in Action and, from 1992 to 1999, was Executive Director of the Brookdale Center at Hunter College. Before coming to Hunter, he served as Administrator of Continuing Education Programs for the Citicorp Foundation and later as Co-Director of the National Aging Policy Center of the National Council on Aging in Washington, DC.

Harry Moody is known nationally for his work in older adult education and recently stepped down as Chairman of the Board of Elderhostel. He has also been active in the field of biomedical ethics and holds appointment as an Adjunct Associate of the Hastings Center.

Abstract

JUSTICE BETWEEN GENERATIONS:
The Recent History of an Idea 

In the 1980s a debate erupted that was greeted as a policy nightmare for gerontology: namely, a claim, from conservatives as well as prominent liberals, that older people are gaining too many resources at the expense of the young. This “generational equity debate,” as it was called, has not disappeared, but has assumed new forms in different countries. Like “The Terminator,” justice between generations is an idea that will not go away. In the 21st century, the challenge of justice between generations is not limited to competition between age groups but extends to a range of challenges that appear to put future
generations at risk: How will pay-as-you go social insurance systems adapt to rapid population aging?  
Will the human impact on earth’s environment permit future generations to enjoy a life comparable to our own? Are governments allocating resources and establishing modes of taxation for sustainable economic prosperity in the future? Debates around generational accounting, global warming, and demographic change in fact have a history, dating back
to Malthus and Burke, revived by philosophers like Daniel Callahan and Norman Daniels, and posed again in the 21st century as we contemplate prospects of population aging in planetary terms. In devising global policies for an aging society of the future, intergenerational programming assumes unprecedented importance on an historical scale.

Environment as an Aging Issue
Harry R. Moody, Ph.D.
International Longevity Center-USA

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Professor Akpovire Oduaran 
 University of Botswana

 

Professor Akpovire Oduaran 

 

Professor Akpovire Oduaran came into academics as a graduate assistant in 1981. Since then, he has gone through the rungs of the academic ladder becoming a full professor of adult and community education at the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria. He was the Head of the Department of Adult Education at that University for five years where he developed academic programmes up to the Master's degree level before he relocated to the University of Botswana in 1997. At the moment, Professor Oduaran is the Head of the Department of Adult Education at the University of Botswana, Botswana. Professor Oduaran, who is a successful academic in his own right, has been widely published in local and international journals. He is a consulting editor to several international journals in his area of interests.

Professor Oduaran was listed among Who's Who in the World in 2004 by the Marquis Organisation in the United States of America. In 2005, the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, the U.K., has similarly listed him among 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century, Third Edition. He is a member of several organizations, including the International Consortium for Intergenerational Programs (lCIP), the Community and Adult Education Research Society of Nigeria (CARESON), the Botswana Educational Research Association (BERA), and the Botswana Adult Education Association (BAEA), among numerous others. He is married with children to Dr. Choja Oduaran, a guidance counsellor. Both of them are grandparents. A practicing Christian, Professor Oduaran serves part-time as the Country Coordinator of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Botswana.  

 

Abstract:

“HEROES OF AFRICA”: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CHANGING FOCUS OF INTERGENERATIONAL PRACTICES UNDER HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC

Death is still knocking at our door. We are not so naïve to believe that “danger” is over,  It is not that our people are despondent about the situation. In fact, we cannot afford to despair because our future is at stake. Our future is in our hands, and we hardly need any soothsayer to remind us. That is why we want the world to know that death from AIDS has not left us alone. If anything, death is stalking everywhere. It has become even more visible, vicious and nauseating. The deaths of the very best in our society have almost debased our perception of the value of faith and hope. This is especially  so as HIV/AIDS seem to have been accelerated and propelled by the combined forces of debilitating and systemic manifestation of poverty, hunger and lack of resources and absence of quick and passionate response on the part of our leaders. In our situation, a group of Africans have emerged whom we can genuinely, in agreement with Stephen Lewis (2005:50), call the heroes of Africa. These are mainly the grandmothers and orphaned grandchildren who venture to step in when and where everyone else fears to tread. In this paper, we seek to analyze briefly the circumstances that induced their emergence, how their operations have altered the objective and focus of intergenerational practices and then the support that would be needed to remain at the forefront of the war against HIV/AIDS in Africa.

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Prof Terry Seedsman
Victoria University

Prof Terry Seedsman ( Ph.D) 
Academic Qualifications: 
Ph.D., M.S.( Oregon), B.A.( Hons/ Monash), Dip.Phys.Ed.( Melb), TPTC. 

Throughout his professional career Professor Terence Seedsman has been an active committee member for many professional and community organisations including several ministerial committees. In addition, he is actively involved in research, published numerous papers and presented a variety of workshop themes relating to recreation, social gerontology, loss and grief and community health and fitness. In 1994 he published a text entitled " Ageing is Negotiable: A Prospectus for Vital Living in the Third Age." During his academic career at Victoria University he has assumed key leadership roles ranging from Head of School, Deputy Dean, and Interim Executive Dean. In March 2004 he was seconded to the Office of the Vice- Chancellor to develop a range of strategic policies for Victoria University. The preceding role has been recently extended to now workshop the recently development policies with fellow colleagues throughout the University. Although very busy with senior management roles and responsibilities, Professor Seedsman still finds time to publish and conduct workshops/ seminars on a range of topics relating to the social, psychological and loss and grief aspects of human ageing. Professor Seedsman has recently been awarded life membership status with the Royal District Nursing Service and the National Association for Loss and Grief ( Vic.) Inc. 

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Dr.  Leng Leng Thang

A/P Thang Leng Leng is socio-cultural anthropologist with research interest on intergenerational programming, intergenerational relationships, aging and gender.

She has worked extensively on Japan, and is the author of “Generations in Touch: Linking the old and young in a Tokyo neighborhood” (Cornell University Press, 2001). She is active both as a scholar and activist in the field of intergenerational programming and intergenerational relationships. She is co principal investigator of a project on grandparenting in Asia, involving qualitiative and quantitative research of grandparent-grandchildren relationships in Singapore, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong. She is co-organizer of the conference on alternate generations in Asia to be held in Oct 20-22 2005 at National University of Singapore. She sits on editorial committee of “Journal of Intergenerational Relationships” (Haworth Press, USA), and serves as chair of the program profile section of the journal.

She is also a management committee member of the International Consortium of Intergenerational Programmes (ICIP) which promotes research, practice and policy in intergenerational studies.  In Singapore, she promotes the concept of intergenerational programming to link the old and young in various ways. This includes key involvement in the organization of workshops and conferences with different organizations to promote awareness and provide training to voluntary welfare agencies; and working with agencies such as National Library Board, Community Development Council, Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, various elderly/children/youth social service agencies interested in promoting the concept of intergenerational integration and bonding. She is chair of Taskforce to promote grandparenting and intergenerational bonding under Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports. She is also vice chair of Fei Yue Community Services which is active in intergenerational programs, among others. She is currently head of Department of Japanese Studies at National University of Singapore, and teaches contemporary Japanese society and culture.

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