Oct 13, 2014
We have a special treat this month, our previous board (2006-2014) left us a wonderful farewell post. Thank you, Rudolf, Rudy, and Ria for all your dedication, hard work, and inspiration! Rudolf Richter, former President (2006-2014) As a kind of farewell I encourage...
Sep 2, 2013
The organizer of our last CFR seminar in Vilnius, Irena Juozeliuniene, is our guest blogger of September. Irena organized with Jan Trost two CFR seminars in Lithuania (1993 & 2013), exploring different but related themes. She has been a member of our committee...
Jul 9, 2013
We are very, very, very excited about this month’s guest blogger. We invited our colleague Filiz Baloglu, from Istanbul, to write about the recent popular uprising in Turkey and its significance for family studies. Here is her thoughtful and interesting...
May 1, 2013
Our guest blogger of May is Dr. Chin-Chun Yi, the organizer of our last seminar in Taiwan. Dr. Yi is a research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota (1981). Dr....
Mar 3, 2013
Our first guest blogger of 2013 is a widely known member of our community: Professor Jan Trost. Jan is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Uppsala University, Sweden. He was President of the committee from 1986 to 1994, and is now our honorary President. Jan is...
Dec 20, 2012
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...
