Call for Proposals: NCFR Annual Conference – Families and Cultural Intersections in a Global Context: Innovations in Research, Practice, and Policies
Posted: 2/12/2018 (Conference)
Contemporary families live in a world that is complex, increasingly interconnected, and culturally diverse. Families are affected by continuously evolving economic, technological, ideological, cultural, and political changes. In many areas, a decreasing fertility rate, the decline in household size, the aging population, and the sharp increase in the proportion of women entering the labor force have led to new and diverse family arrangements.
Despite these changes, families remain a central arena for promoting the well-being and resiliency of their members. The 2018 NCFR Annual Conference will focus on innovative approaches, theories, research, policies, and programs that support and strengthen families in all types of Western and non-Western settings. Of particular interest are proposals that focus on new lines of research and prevention and intervention approaches, programs, and policies that support vulnerable families.
Please download and read through the full call for proposals (PDF) for details on conference presentation formats, criteria, topics, and more.
The online system for submitting conference proposals is now open. Proposals are due March 1, 2018 — 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.
Oxford Abstracts, the online submission database for NCFR conference proposals, has been redesigned to improve your experience submitting a proposal. Please read through these detailed instructions for a thorough understanding of these changes.
Sample Presentation Topics
The 2018 conference theme allows for a wide variety of topics, debates, and policy analyses, including these examples:
- The current state of empirical research on families of difference races and ethnicities
- The intersection of social class, gender, ethnicity, and race from a global perspective
- Reproductive technologies and new conceptualizations of motherhood and fatherhood
- How families are responding to increasing racial and cultural diversity around the world
- Families’ increasing use of technology to maintain connections globally
- The effect of immigration issues on families in Western and non-Western societies
- Multiple-partner fertility and parenting
- Evaluating family support programs and their utility from the lens of complex families
- Incorporating family complexity into quantitative and qualitative research
- Changing demographics in the European Union, Asia, Latin and South America, and Africa, and policy responses to those changes
- Gender–work balance in the Asian context, in Canada, in the European Union, as well as how gender-work balance compares in the United States
Deadline: 03/01/2018
Location: San Diego, CA