Duplicaat van Conference 'Bridging Cultures, Building Families: Exploring the Dynamics of Multicultural Families'
From 28 tot 30 May the International Commission on Couple and Family Relations (ICCFR) organised the conference 'Bridging Cultures, Building Families: Exploring the Dynamics of Multicultural Families' on our campus in Schaarbeek.
During this three-day event, we presented, among other things, the results of our project on bicultural relationships.
The conference was conducted in English. We are pleased to share the presentations given by the keynote speakers.
Presentations
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Prof Marie-Claire Foblets, Belgian legal scholar and anthropologist renowned for her work on migration, legal pluralism and the interaction between law and culture:
“How globalisation and socio-cultural change reshape family systems”.
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Researchers Dirk Geldof, Kathleen Emmery, Silke Peeters, Kim Lecoyer and Birsen Taspinar:
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Philippe Lortie, First Secretary at the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) in the Netherlands:
In addition to the keynote presentations, the following workshops were on offer:
- What’s Love Got to Do With it? - The immigration law challenges faced by bi-national couples in Ireland and the UK
- Exploring Mixedness in Postcolonial Europe
- Mixed Marriages – Transcending love and courage through identities, boundaries and cultural expectations
- Sickness project: Between Comfort and Pride
- Supporting Family reunification of Refugee Families
- Navigating Cultural Diversity and Resilience in Transnational and Multicultural Families & Between faith and silence :social and cultural participation in Indonesian-Turkish marriages
- Navigating the space between us: Towards diversity trauma and racism sensitive support practices for bi-cultural families
- Embodied Encounters: Using Drama and Systemic Techniques to Explore Bicultural Couple Dynamics
- Understanding Autonomy in Multicultural Families: Exploring Challenges, Resilience and Navigation
- Challenges and Opportunities: Navigating Disempowering Cultural Norms in multicultural Families
