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First List of Selected Abstracts – The Fourth Annual Conference on Ageing “Reimagining Gender, Ageing and Care: Perspectives from the Global South”
Published on October 1, 2025
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We are delighted to announce the first list of selected abstracts for the Fourth Annual Conference on Ageing to be held on December 4 and 5 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
This year’s theme, “Reimagining Gender, Ageing and Care: Perspectives from the Global South”, has drawn an inspiring range of submissions from scholars, researchers, and practitioners across diverse contexts. The abstracts selected reflect critical engagements with ageing, care economies, care labour, kinship, migration, caste, health, and the intersections of gender and ageing in the Global South.
We congratulate the authors whose abstracts have been accepted in this round and look forward to their valuable contributions at the conference. Further communication regarding the registration, program schedule and presentation guidelines will follow soon.
Name of author | Affiliation | Title of paper | |
1. | Aanchal Seema Khulna | Jamia Milia Islamia | Care after Harm: Gender-based Violence Survivors as Caretakers in Elder Care |
2. | Meghana Rao | Azim Premji University | Autism, Ageing, and the Future of Care: Familial Responses in Neoliberal Times |
3. | Jagriti Gangopadhyay | Manipal Institute of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts | Older women and living alone: Intergenerational ties, everyday care and support groups |
4. | Aakriti Bikash Kumar | Center for Indo-European Cooperation (CIEC) | Who Cares for Ageing Women? A Human Security Approach to Ageing Policy in India and Thailand |
5. | Hameeda Syed | Dignity in Difference | Not without my father: An auto-ethnographic lens on ageing, care, and misdiagnosis in Kashmir |
6. | Pravendra Singh Birla | MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, UP | Virtual Bonds, Real Care: Digital Transformations in Eldercare Strategies |
7. | Ankita Kundu | Labhya | Caring for the Self: Intergenerational and Intersectional Narratives of Women’s Self-Care in India |
8. | Naina Sharma | Center of Policy Research and Governance (CPRG) | The Digital Welfare State and Elderly Citizens: The Politics of Care in India |
9. | Hemant Dahayat | IGNOU Delhi | Remembering Care: Dalit Life Narratives and the Politics of Ageing in the Global South |
10. | Mridula Manglam | Ageing, State and The Post-Carceral Crisis of Care in India | Collective Futures of Care |
11. | Nidhi Sen and Soumyaroop Majumdar | Support Elders Private Limited and Independent Feminist Researcher | From Caregivers to Care Recipients: Gendered Expectations and Trust in Urban Indian Eldercare |
12. | Chetna Rani and Jigeesha Bhargavi | Jawaharlal University and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University | A.K.D.C. is affiliated to the University of Allahabad |
13. | Mahera Imam | Centre for Indo-European Cooperation (CIEC) | Datafied Ageing and the Reconfiguration of Care: Gender, Justice, and the Politics of Social Reproduction |
14. | Deepika Saluja, Surya Surendran, Gloria Benny, Renu Khanna | Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu | Older Women’s Health and Well-being in India: An intersectional review of national policies and programmes |
15. | Kritika Chadha, Dr. Asha Banu Soletti | Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai | The George Institute for Global Health |
16. | Gurbani Kaur | University of Witwatersrand | Care, Counted Unequally: Global Patterns of Gendered Migration, Labour, and Remittances |
17. | Ashwin Tripathi Prof. Dr. Ursula Offenberger | University of Tuebingen | Doing Age through Times: Community Building and Caring among older Indian immigrants in Germany |
18. | Bui Y Nhi | Research and Communication Centre for Sustainable Development | Exploring Eldercare Practices in Remote Vietnam: A Case Study from Tuyen Quang Province |
19. | CHEFOR NGWENYI MEUNGWE | University of Yaounde Soa Cameroon | Unpaid, Unseen, Undervalued: Gendered Realities of Ageing and Care in Sub-Saharan Africa |
20. | Dr Valatheeswaran Chinnakkannu | Universiti Brunei Darussalam | Adult Son Migration and Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) of Older Adults Left Behind in India: Evidence from the LASI 2017–18 |