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ZHCES organises a Symposium on "New research in the psychology of Ageing: Looking through the lens of Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology"

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ZHCES organises a Symposium on "New research in the psychology of Ageing: Looking through the lens of Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology"
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Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies


Special Symposium on


New research in the psychology of Ageing: Looking through the lens of Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology


Date: 14 December 2022
Venue: Dean’s Committee Room, SSS II, JNU

Convener- Prof. Minati Panda, ZHCES
Co-convener- Dr. Neha Aggarwal, Postdoc research scholar (ICSSR), ZHCES

9.30-10.00      
Inaugral Session: Welcome by Professor Kaushal Kumar, Dean, SSS  & Chairperson, ZHCES

Minati Panda        Ageing and loneliness from a Heideggerian lens

10.00 10.30         
Shifa Haq    Between longing and loneliness- Reading unmourned losses from a psychoanalytic lens

10.30-11.00        
Neha Aggarwal        ‘When death is near’: Ageing and anxiety

11.00-11.30        TEA

11.30-12.00        
Saurabh Todariya    Phenomenology and alterity of old age

12. 30- 1.00        
Soumick De        The old man and the world: on the problem of ageing

1.0    - 1.30     
Mizaj K.         Habit in Ageing: Sedimentation of embodied identity among women

1.30-2.00    
Meghna Dutta Roy    Loneliness of ageing in the neoliberal world: the power of  intergenerational dialogue

2.00             LUNCH