This talk focuses on inter-caste-religious marriages among young people in India, which have been generally interpreted through the lens of romantic love and individual choice. Disha K R seeks to complicate these narratives by situating such marriages within their specific regional context and its embedded social and structural practices.

In this presentation, Mathilde Krähenbühl explores the gendered implications of ecological and alternative modes of living. Drawing on family ethnographies conducted in a French rural area where climate-concerned individuals migrate, she attempts to understand how ecological living reshapes gender, domestic labour and parental care.

How do China’s LGBTQ+ people respond to intensified state repression? How do they construct community, identity, and nonnormative life trajectories amid persistent stigmatization? Drawing on ten years of research between 2015 and 2025, Susanne Choi explores how queer resistance emerges not only through activism, but also through intimate negotiations and daily practices.

On 22 September, Jesser Ramos explored the redefinition of family among LGBTQIAP+ individuals estranged from their original families. Drawing from research in three Brazilian shelters, this talk addresses how these individuals reconstruct the notion of family within spaces of support, amidst past traumas and new communal connections.

The Transforming Friendship Focused Support project has co-created a suite of resources to improve friendship support for care experienced young people and young adults.

We bear the very sad news that Professor Angus Bancroft an esteemed member of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh an early associate of the