Aging & Social Change: Sixteenth Interdisciplinary Conference
- Demographic Futures: Political and Social Transformations
- 15-16 October 2026
- Online Only
Aging & Social Change: Sixteenth Interdisciplinary Conference featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Professor, Director Emerita Simon Fraser University Gerontology Department, Gerontology Research Centre, Vancouver Canada
(Online)
Founding Chair of Gerontology Departments, Akdeniz University & Muş Alparslan University,President of National Social and Applied Gerontology Association, Turkey
(Online)
Emeritus Professor, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
"A Social Justice Perspective on Dementia and Citizenship Status in Later Life: A Call to All and Sundry for Democratic, Ethical and Compassionate Care Practices and Understandings”
(Online)
Professor, Ageing and Later Life, Department for Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
Founding Chair of Gerontology Departments, Akdeniz University & Muş Alparslan University,President of National Social and Applied Gerontology Association, Turkey
Head of Gerontology Department, Akdeniz University, Turkey
Head of Gerontology Department, Muş Alparslan University, Turkey
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 2026 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
Akdeniz University, Turkey
Akdeniz University, Turkey
Akdeniz University, Turkey
Akdeniz University, Turkey
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology & Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institute, Germany
Tekirdag Namik Kemal University, Turkey
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Akdeniz University, Turkey
LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
University of Bergamo, Italy
Antalya, Turkey
Turkey
Muş, Turkey
Antalya, Turkey
Antalya, Turkey