Calendar of Events, Fall 2025
Inaugural Lecture
Lecture Title: A Mortality Tale, Governmental Tale, and Existential Tale: Ageing in Asia in Contemoprary Times
Speaker: Dr. Sarah Lamb
Date: September 6, 2025
Book Talk
Book Title: Unsettled Futures: Carceral Circuits and Old Age in Japan
Speaker: Dr. Jason Danely
Date: October 11, 2025
Webinar Talk
Lecture Title: Ageing Migrant Labor: Futures of Domestic Workers in Asia
Speaker: Dr. Megha Amrith
Date: November 1, 2025
A Post-Conference Workshop
Theme: Big Data and Gerontology: Methodological Engagements with Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI)
Date: December 6, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Venue: O.P. Jindal Global University
Resource Persons:
Dr. S. Irudaya Rajan (Chair, IIMAD)
Dr. Irshad C.V (Postdoctoral Fellow, IIMAD)
Organizers:
Dr. Deblina Dey (Jindal Global Law School)
Dr. Yoshiko Ishioka Miyata (Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities)
Jointly Organized By
O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU)
International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD)
Jindal Global Law School (JGLS)
Calendar of Events, Spring 2026
A Book Discussion
Book Title: Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives
Speakers & Role
Author: Dr. Tanja Ahlin (Research Fellow, University of Amsterdam / Assistant Professor, Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, Slovenia)
Discussant: Dr. Tannistha Samanta (Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, FLAME University, Pune, India)
Date: Saturday, February 14, 2026
Panel Discussion (National Convention on Women in India)
Theme: Interrogating the Feminisation of Ageing through Women's Lived Experiences
Date: Monday, March 9, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM IST
Venue: O.P. Jindal Global University
Specific Location: Mithila, 2nd Floor, Shalu Jindal Academic Block
Speakers:
Prof. (Dr.) Nilika Mehrotra, Professor, JNU
Ms. Meera Khanna, President, Guild for Service
Mr. Mathew Cherian, Ex CEO, HelpAge India
Prof. (Dr.) Mala Kapur Shankardass, Professor (Reted), University of Delhi
Modrator: Dr. Deblina Dey (Associate Professor, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University)
Presenter: Dr. Yoshiko Ishioka Miyata (Assistant Professor, Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University)
Webinar Talk
Talk Title: Care Robots in Japan: Productivism, Leeway, and the Future of Care
Speaker: Dr. James Wright (Independent Scholar)
Date: Saturday, April 25, 2026