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  CRFR International Conference 2010
Changing Families in a Changing World
June 16 - 18 • 2010
John MacIntyre Centre • University of Edinburgh • Edinburgh • UK

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We live in times of enormous change on personal and global levels. Families are more diverse and more likely to change, with divorce, separation, stepfamilies, international adoption, increased life expectancy in some parts of the world and decreased in others, and a growing divide between rich and poor at local and global levels all becoming more prevalent. At the same time global recession, uncertainty about the impact of environmental degradation and increase religious and civil unrest provide a changing backdrop against which families live their lives.

What happens to families in this changing word? How do they deal with the way in which global changes impact upon their lives? What do we know about these changes and how they play out in and across different parts of the globe?

CRFR’s international conference will address these issues and invites paper and workshop proposals.

Themes to be included could be:
Globalisation, care chains and work-family   balance
Migration and transnational families
Transnational adoption
Families and the changing life course:   childhood, middle and older age
Recession and impact on partnering, family   building, intergenerational relationships and   everyday family life.
  Development and family   change in   the majority world
Impact of internet technologies, new   technologies or commercialisation on   family and personal relationships
Families and environment issues
Open streams - other papers   addressing conference   themes

Speakers
Loretta Baldassar, Director Monash University Centre in Prato, Italy.

Kit Wa Anita Chan, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences,
The Hong Kong Institute of Education


Stevi Jackson, Professor and Director, Centre for Women's Studies,York University

Professor Lynn Jamieson, Co-Director, Centre for Research on Families
and Relationships


Irene Rizzini, Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

Barrie Thorne, Professor of Sociology and of Gender and Women's Studies,
University of California at Berkeley