Care, Gender, and Changing Intergenerational Relations in Urban Asia

Format: One full-day symposium hosted at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Each sessions will include individual presentations (15-20 min) followed by a joint discussion. The last activity of the day will be a discussion about main takeaways and future directions and activities. 

Lunch and coffee will be provided to participants. 

Planned outcome: One planned outcome of the symposium is to compile a proposal for a special issue on the symposium theme. Select participants will be expected to submit full papers in the future to be considered for publication.

Organisers: 

Lisa Eklund, Associate Professor of Sociology, Lund University and coming Leverhulme Trust visiting professor at OSGA, University of Oxford. lisa.eklund@soc.lu.se

Taanya Kapoor, Research Student, Department of International Development, University of Oxford and Principal Project Scientist for STEMtheGap at IIT Delhi, India.taanya.kapoor@sant.ox.ac.uk

Travel: Travel costs will be covered for up to six participants outside of Oxford.

Please submit your abstract (max 250 words) no later than 1 September 2026 by emailing: caregendersymposium2026@gmail.com

For more details about the call for abstracts please click here.