8th Congress of the European Society on Family Relations

14:00 - 14:30

Opening Session

Dirk Biermann Pro-rector Research, TU Dortmund University Thomas Goll Dean of the Faculty of Education, Psychology and Sociology, TU Dortmund University Kimmo Jokinen President of the ESFR Uwe Uhlendorff Local Organization Team, TU Dortmund University

14:00 - 16:00

Keynote: Who are my family members? Ordinary and extraordinary definitions of family (Prof. Eric Widmer)

Keynote: Who are my family members? Ordinary and extraordinary definitions of family (Prof. Eric Widmer)

Widmer, Eric D.

University of Geneva, Switzerland

I have been analysing for years thousands of lists of significant family members given by a variety of respondents, from college students to senior citizens, from individuals in long lasting married couples to individuals in stepfamily households, from pregnant women at risk of putting their child into custody, to young adults from foster families, in Switzerland or elsewhere. Those lists made it possible to reconsider the issue of family diversity without referring priorly to family structures but to a variety of processes of family inclusiveness or exclusiveness that have their own relational logics. My presentation will describe such logics and stress their social roots, while acknowledging their ordinary and extraordinary nature.

Date: Saturday, 03/Sep/2016
11:30 - 12:30	Keynote: Making sense of parenthood(s): gender, "responsibilities" and practices of caring in longitudinal family research (Prof. Tina Miller)
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	Keynote: Making sense of parenthood(s): gender, "responsibilities" and practices of caring in longitudinal family research (Prof. Tina Miller) Miller, Tina Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom tba

Date: Wednesday, 31/Aug/2016
14:00 - 14:30	Opening Session Dirk Biermann Pro-rector Research, TU Dortmund University Thomas Goll Dean of the Faculty of Education, Psychology and Sociology, TU Dortmund University Kimmo Jokinen President of the ESFR Uwe Uhlendorff Local Organization Team, TU Dortmund University
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14:00 - 16:00	Keynote: Who are my family members? Ordinary and extraordinary definitions of family (Prof. Eric Widmer)
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	Keynote: Who are my family members? Ordinary and extraordinary definitions of family (Prof. Eric Widmer) Widmer, Eric D. University of Geneva, Switzerland I have been analysing for years thousands of lists of significant family members given by a variety of respondents, from college students to senior citizens, from individuals in long lasting married couples to individuals in stepfamily households, from pregnant women at risk of putting their child into custody, to young adults from foster families, in Switzerland or elsewhere. Those lists made it possible to reconsider the issue of family diversity without referring priorly to family structures but to a variety of processes of family inclusiveness or exclusiveness that have their own relational logics. My presentation will describe such logics and stress their social roots, while acknowledging their ordinary and extraordinary nature.