Aging & Social Change: Fifteenth Interdisciplinary Conference

  • Aging, Intergenerational Solidarity and the Polycrisis
  • 22-24 October 2025
  • Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden + Online

Research Network Chair

Andreas Motel-Klingebiel

Andreas Motel-Klingebiel

Professor, Ageing and Later Life, Department for Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Conference Chairs

Andreas Motel-Klingebiel

Andreas Motel-Klingebiel

Professor, Ageing and Later Life, Department for Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Nico Mira

Nico Mira

PhD student, Linköping University, Sweden

Plenary Speakers

Aging & Social Change: Fifteenth Interdisciplinary Conference featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.

 Liat Ayalon

Liat Ayalon

Professor of Bar-Ilan University's Weisfeld School of Social Work, Israel

"Intergenerational Relations, and Ageism in the Age of Climate Change"

Lukas Meyer

Lukas Meyer

Professor, Institute of Philosophy, University of Graz, Austria

"The Ethics of Expectations in Transitions to Climate Neutrality"

Emerging Scholar Awardees

For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2025 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:

Saiyedatun Nesa

Saiyedatun Nesa

Department of Cooperatives, Government of Bangladesh, Bangladesh

(In-Person)

Özlem Özgür

Özlem Özgür

Akdeniz University, Turkey

(In-Person)

Samuel Turcotte

Samuel Turcotte

Université Laval, Canada

(In-Person)

Sampatha Waduge Ruwan Kanchana Silva

Sampatha Waduge Ruwan Kanchana Silva

Linköping University, Sweden

(In-Person)

Sara Wittberg

Sara Wittberg

Linköping University, Sweden

(In-Person)

Beatrice Belli

Beatrice Belli

Linköping University, Sweden

(In-Person)

Sirina Schubert

Sirina Schubert

Linköping University, Sweden

(In-Person)

Samiksha Tamang

Samiksha Tamang

Linköping University, Sweden

(In-Person)

María Camacho García

María Camacho García

University of Cadiz, Spain

(Online Only)

Rajendra Adhikari

Rajendra Adhikari

Tribhuvan University, Nepal

(In-Person)

Kimberly Mitchell

Kimberly Mitchell

University of Tennessee, USA

(Online Only)

Ellis Onyedikachi George

Ellis Onyedikachi George

VID Specialized University, Norway

(Online Only)

Mino Novello

Mino Novello

University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

(Online Only)

Ananya Mahadevan

Ananya Mahadevan

Flame University, India

(Online Only)

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Tobilola Akingbade

Tobilola Akingbade

North Carolina Central University, USA

(Online Only)

Sayani Das

Sayani Das

Bar Ilan University, Israel

(Online Only)

Sukesha Ghosh

Sukesha Ghosh

IDC School of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

(Online Only)

Conference & Network Partner