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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 |
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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. |
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| Themes
to be included could be: |
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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. |
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Development and family change in the
majority world
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Impact of internet technologies, new technologies
or commercialisation on family and personal
relationships
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Families and environment issues
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Open streams - other papers addressing conference
themes |
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| 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
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