Adam J. Greteman
Adam J. Greteman
Chair and Associate Professor of Art Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Research Project
The LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project: A Collaborative Research Symposium
Project Team:
2025 – 2026
Participants in the 2022-2023 cycle of the LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project gather at the Center on Halsted for storytelling and dialogue. Photo by Karen Morris.
Key Question
In what ways do intergenerational dialogues counter legacies of injustice to improve the well-being of LGBTQ+ people?
Project Summary
This project builds on the work of The LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project by facilitating four research symposiums for former participants to come together to engage in data analysis, interpretation, and writing of a collaboratively authored book.
Since 2019, The LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project has been a highly collaborative community-engaged exploration of the educational, psychological and cultural impact of LGBTQ+ intergenerational dialogues on younger and older adults. While decades of research has documented the challenges that LGBTQ+ individuals face across the lifespan, the project has built on the strengths and assets of LGBTQ+ individuals. The project has engaged cohorts of Chicago-area younger and older adults in 16 three-hour dialogues, each over the course of 9 months. Dialogues have engaged themes, including but not limited to, LGBTQ+ politics and art, experiences with HIV/AIDS, gender beyond the binary, and activism. To date, over 160 people have participated in the project.
We will facilitate a series of collaborative intergenerational research symposia that will bring alumni from the first six years of the project into the data analysis, interpretation, and writing aspects of the research process. Data collected throughout this mixed method study includes a blend of questionnaires, audio recordings of each dialogue, including small group breakouts, ethnographic field notes, and midpoint and endpoint interviews. Analysis of our voluminous body of data seeks to address the question: How can LGBTQ+ intergenerational dialogues counter legacies of epistemic injustice to improve the psychosocial, cultural, and educational well-being of LGBTQ+ people? The goal of these symposia is to work on writing a collaboratively informed book that bridges the gap between researchers and research subjects.
Research Team
Lisa L. Moore
Lisa L. Moore
Senior Lecturer and Director of the A.M. Program in Social Work, Social Policy, and Social Administration
University of Chicago
Karen A. Morris
Nic M. Weststrate
Nic M. Weststrate
Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology
University of Illinois Chicago
Project Narrative
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Third Symposium at Neubauer Collegium
Third Symposium at Neubauer Collegium
The research team hosted the third of three workshops presented in Fall of 2025. In the Spring, the research team will gather to present their findings at a final session.
Second Symposium at Neubauer Collegium
Second Symposium at Neubauer Collegium
The second of four symposia planned by the research team further interpreted their findings from dialogues with Chicago-area younger and older adults.
First Symposium at Neubauer Collegium
First Symposium at Neubauer Collegium
A multigenerational group of 25 participants gathered to identify objectives and priorities for the current phase of the research project.
Team Meeting
Team Meeting
Around 30 researchers, fellows, and community members gathered to begin the initial planning stages of their symposia.
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Third Symposium at Neubauer Collegium
Third Symposium at Neubauer Collegium
The research team hosted the third of three workshops presented in Fall of 2025. In the Spring, the research team will gather to present their findings at a final session.
Second Symposium at Neubauer Collegium
Second Symposium at Neubauer Collegium
The second of four symposia planned by the research team further interpreted their findings from dialogues with Chicago-area younger and older adults.
First Symposium at Neubauer Collegium
First Symposium at Neubauer Collegium
A multigenerational group of 25 participants gathered to identify objectives and priorities for the current phase of the research project.
Reading List
Greteman, A.J.; Moore, L.L.; Morris, K; Weststrate, N.M.
Pathways to Queer Thriving in an LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Community American Psychologist, 79(8), 1185-1201 ReadGreteman, A.J.; Moore, L.L.; Morris, K; Weststrate, N.M.
Queer(ing) Vicarious Memory: Lessons from an LGBTQ” Intergenerational Community Project. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 13(2), 181-184 ReadGreteman, A.J.; Moore, L.L.; Morris, K; Weststrate, N.M.
Generating LGBTQ+ Art through Dialogue Cultivating Critical Conversations in Art Education: Honoring Student Voice, Identity, and Agency ReadGreteman, A.J.; Morris, K; Weststrate, N.M.
Rainbows and Mud: Experiments in LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Care Signs: Journal of Women and Culture, 49(1), 183-207 ReadGreteman, A.J.; Morris, K; Weststrate, N.M.
Sharing Across Queer Generations Queer Precarities in and out of Higher Education: Challenging Institutional Structures ReadGreteman, A.J.; Morris, K; Weststrate, N.M.
Embracing Queer Heartache: Lessons from LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogues International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 35(9), 928-942 ReadGreteman, A.J.; Morris, K; Weststrate, N.M.
Countering epistemic violence: The work of intergenerational LGBTQ+ dialogue Studies in Art Education, 62(4) ReadGreteman, A.J.; Morris, K
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