Professional Events
As another form of community outreach and engagement, members of the project team - faculty facilitators, elder liaisons, and graduate and undergraduate research assistants - give professional presentations and participate in panels to connect our work with that of social services organizations and community researchers.
October 2024 Creating Inclusive, Intergenerational Spaces in the LGBTQIA+ Community
Members of The LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project were part of an hour long webinar hosted by Generations United hosted on October 9, 2024. The webinar explored generational differences and commonalities in the LGBTQIA+ community and discussed how ageism, homophobia, cultural/religious values, and life course inequalities impact LGBTQIA+ people and the nature of intergenerational relations. Dialogue Team members Adam, Phyllis, and Katia shared ideas based on the Dialogue Project about creating safe spaces that intentionally bring people of different ages together to engage in meaningful exchange, advocate for policy changes, and foster intergenerational empathy.
August 2024 Where Queer Paths Cross Critical Femininities Conference
Molly Fulop invited and moderated this panel presentation, in which five Dialogue Project members (a doctoral student research assistant, two elder co-facilitators, an undergraduate research assistant, and a current participant) engaged in discussion on how The Project impacted their understandings of gender, artmaking, intergenerational collaboration, and personal identity. Through this discussion, panelists shared their reflections on the theme of ‘Generation’ through the lenses of their intergenerational connections and their physical generation of artworks exploring fem(me)inine kinship, lineage, and identities. In doing so, the panelists consider The Dialogue Project as a site for the development of intergenerational fem(me)inine and feminist solidarities toward fostering epistemic agency and enacting epistemic resistance.
June 2024 American Society on Aging Chicagoland Roundtable
“Aging with Pride: Innovative Supports for Chicago Area LGBTQ+ Older Adults”
Karen Morris and Adam Greteman shared insights on the Dialogue Project with the American Society on Aging Chicagoland Roundtable, moderated by dialogue project alum Alan Factor!
June 2024 Promoting Intergenerational Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
On Tuesday, June 11 Generations United hosted this webinar to share the findings from a new report that provides a framework for intergenerational teaching and learning, highlights examples of current practices in Michigan and beyond, and identifies challenges, promising practices, and opportunities for deepening and expanding intergenerational learning.
Adam Greteman joined a panel of fellow experts to talk about intergenerational they are each leading at their colleges and universities.
June 2024 Thrive with Pride
Celebrating the Creativity of our Community with Molly Fulop
Molly Fulop presented a specially curated LGBTQ+ virtual gallery tour for AgeOptions answering the question “How have LGBTQ+ people used art and creative expression to communicate with each other?
Molly researched artworks that deal with themes of representation, perception and internal/external communication. They shared their insights centered around the following questions:
How are we being seen and how can we
control our image/tell our own stories?
How are we talking to each other?
Faculty facilitators at the LGTBQ Research Symposium

2023 Panel Presentation for Northshore Senior Center’s Lunch and Learn
“The Success and Challenges of an LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project”
Project participants Molly Fulop, Phyllis Johnson, and Joseph Henry joined Karen Morris (project co-facilitator) and Britta Larson (Senior Services Director, Center on Halsted) for a panel presentation for social service providers on the “successes, challenges, and power” of LGBTQ+ intergenerational programming.
Together, and through our various lenses, we reflected on the following prompts, while also creating space for audience members to guide the discussion:
- What happens when older and younger LGBTQ+ people come together in sustained dialogue?
- In what ways has pleasure and pain manifested in our LGBTQ+ intergenerational dialogues?
- What have been points of tension and harmony in our intergenerational dialogue work?
- How do LGBTQ+ people change through the process of coming together in intergenerational dialogue?