2012 News
Our gazette is out!
Our last newsletter of 2012 is out! You can check it here. Or you can find it in the newsletters' menu. Please take a special look at the call for nominations for the CFR elections, on pages 4-5. Happy...
Guest blogger of December: “Two CFR-Seminars on Divorce: 1981 and 2012” by Wilfried Dumon
Here is a Xmas treat for our members: our December guest blogger is Prof. Dr. Wilfried Dumon, a well-known scholar in the sociology of family. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Together with a few others, he was present at the cradle of...
Extended deadline for the CFR seminar in Vilnius, Lithuania (2013)
"Family and Migration" Vilnius, July 17-19, 2013 Vilnius University, Lithuania Deadline for abstracts: 15th of December, 2012 Check the call for papers,...
Updates from the CFR Seminar in Taipei
Updates from the Taipei conference organizers: "Early Stage Family Scholar Award" We are happy to announce that the Committee on Family Research (CFR), RC06, of the International Sociological Association will sponsor the 2nd competition on “Young Scholars Awardâ€....
Call for papers for the upcoming CFR seminar in Vilnius, Lithuania (July 17-19, 2013)
"Family and Migration" Vilnius, July 17-19, 2013 Vilnius University, Lithuania Organizers Irena Juozeliūnienė (Lithuania) & Jan Trost (Sweden) Laura Kanapienienė (laura.kanapieniene@fsf.vu.lt) (contact person) Call for papers Identification of an individual and...
Guest blogger of September: “Things are not what they seem — even in the family” by Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun
Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun, a PhD (Sociology) from the New York University, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Her research interests include family, citizenship and immigration, social inequalities, public...
UNODC global awareness campaign on the $870 billion organized crime business
Our president, Rudolf Richter, represented the ISA as a NGO at the conference of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna. The UNODC just launched a global awareness-raising campaign, and we were asked to help disseminate it. The campaign reveals...
Call for Papers for the upcoming CFR seminar in Taipei, Taiwan (March 28-30, 2013)
Call for Papers: the 2013 Seminar of the ISA RC06 on Family Research “Demographic and Institutional Change in Global Families†is an international conference co-sponsored by the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan and the Research Committee on Family...
Guest blogger of May – “The family factor” by Bárbara Barbosa Neves
Bárbara Barbosa Neves is our May guest blogger. Bárbara is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Technical University of Lisbon in Portugal (ISCSP-UTL). She is also a research fellow at the Centre for Public Administration & Policies. You can find her here....
News from Leuven – Registration is now open!
Dear all, The local organizers of the CFR conference 2012, in Leuven, are happy to let you know that registration for the conference is now open. Check their website here. There are specific registration fees for PhD-students, CFR members, and non-CFR members. Two...