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| Changing Families
in a Changing World |
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Themes to be included could be: |
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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• Globalisation,
care chains
and work-family balance
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Migration and transnational families
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Transnational adoption
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Families and the changing life course: childhood,
middle
and older age
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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
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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.
Transnational Families and the Future of Transnational Care
Kit Wa Anita Chan, Associate Professor,
Department of Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
Changing families and gender relationships in Hong Kong
Stevi Jackson, Professor and Director,
Centre for Women's Studies,York University
Changing sexualities, changing families: what can we learn from
East-West comparisons?
Professor Lynn Jamieson,
Co-Director, Centre for Research on Families and Relationships
Changing Families and Relationships in a Changing World
Irene Rizzini, Professor at the Pontifical
Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Young people and their families managing adversity: examples
from Brazil and international contexts
Barrie
Thorne, Professor of Sociology and of Gender and
Women's Studies, University of California at Berkeley
The Current Economic Crisis and Children's Experiences and Management
of Family Shame |
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Call
for papers
Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted by 30 October 2009
via our web form or by email to l.marshall@ed.ac.uk
Click here for more information and
to access the web form
Publication
We are hoping to publish and edited collection from this conference
in the Palgrave Macmillan series 'Family and Intimate Life'.
If you would like your paper to be considered for this publication
please indicate on your abstract submission.
Workshop proposals
Workshops should be closely related to the conference themes,
and allow more in-depth discussion of issues. Workshop proposals
should be submitted via our online form or a downloadable application
form to be emailed to l.marshall@ed.ac.uk.
Click here for more information and
to access the web form
Booking
Booking for this conference will be available from early June
2009
Cost
Online booking facilities will available from this page shortly.
The full delegate fee is £320 (excluding accommodation).
There are some subsidised places of £100 for postgraduate
students and people from small voluntary organisations available
at our discretion - please email l.marshall@ed.ac.uk
Important Dates
Call for paper/workshop closes 30
October 2009
Notification of paper/workshops acceptance 23
November 2009
Paper/Workshop Presenters to book delegate place by 30
November 2009
Conference 16 – 18 June
2010
Programme
Conference will start at 12.30pm on Wednesday 16 June and close
at 1.30pm on Friday 18 June 2010.
See the conference programme
Extend your visit
If you are attending the conference and would like to extend
your visit there are some opportunities to be hosted
as a visiting scholar at CRFR for periods of a week to two months
(subject to desk availability). if you are interested
in taking this opportunity up please contact l.marshall@ed.ac.uk
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