Session Overview
 
Date: Wednesday, 31/Aug/2016
12:00 - 14:00Registration
Foyer 
14:00 - 14:30Opening 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

HS1 
14:00 - 16:00Keynote: Who are my family members? Ordinary and extraordinary definitions of family (Prof. Eric Widmer)
HS1 
16:30 - 18:30Project workshop: Family life in transition – a longitudinal study of family life in Denmark.
2.105 
16:30 - 18:30Invited symposium: Generations in family and society
2.106 
16:30 - 18:30WS1: Couple relationships I - changing values in couple relationships?
Session Chair: Prof. Fred Berger, University of Innsbruck
2.107 
16:30 - 18:30WS2: Methodological approaches in family research
Session Chair: Alice Barth, University of Bonn
2.108 
16:30 - 18:30WS3: Parenthood and family formation I - Contemporary fatherhood, contemporary motherhood
Session Chair: Prof. Michael Meuser
2.109 
16:30 - 18:30WS4: Information and communication technologies in family life
Session Chair: Dr. Mia Tammelin, University of Jyväskylä
2.512 
18:30 - 19:30Welcome Reception (Foyer EF 50)
Foyer 

 
Date: Thursday, 01/Sep/2016
9:00 - 11:00Symposium: Changing family relations and work
Session Chair: Dr. Sara Mazzucchelli, Catholic University
Session Chair: Dr. Ann Zofie Duvander, Stockholm University
2.105 
9:00 - 11:00WS5: Care and welfare policies
Session Chair: Judith Kaschowitz, TU Dortmund
2.106 
9:00 - 11:00WS6: Families, inequalities and intergenerational reproduction
Session Chair: Holger Schoneville, TU Dortmund University
2.107 
9:00 - 11:00WS7: Life course, aging and intergenerational relations I - new forms of intergenerational solidarity and intergenerational relations
Session Chair: Dr. Iaroslav Youssim, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
2.108 
9:00 - 11:00WS8: Parenthood and family formation II - impact of parenting on couple relationships and life satisfaction
Session Chair: Dr. Isabelle Albert, University of Luxembourg
2.109 
9:00 - 11:00WS9: Children, childhood and youth I - growing up under adverse conditions 1
Session Chair: Prof. Barbara Segatto, University of Padova
2.512 
11:30 - 13:00Keynote: Her and his? Exploring gender in intergenerational patterns (Prof. Gunhild Hagestad)
HS2 
11:30 - 13:00Keynote: Welfare state systems and children´s interests - the impact of differences in child welfare, child protection and children´s rights regulations on decision making processes (Prof. Marit Skivenes)
HS3 
13:00 - 14:00POS: Poster Session
Foyer 
14:00 - 16:00Symposium: ‘Families in poverty’ – discourses and experiences
2.105 
14:00 - 16:00Symposium: Value transmission and intergenerational relations across the life course
2.106 
14:00 - 16:00WS10: Couple relationships II - couple relationships and life satisfaction
Session Chair: Dr. Lars Petter Gulbrandsen, NOVA - Norwegian Social Research
2.107 
14:00 - 16:00WS11: Pluralisation of family forms I - LGBT, surrogacy and family relations
Session Chair: Prof. Jorge Gato, University of Porto
2.108 
14:00 - 16:00WS12: Parenthood and family formation III - changing fatherhood, changing care arrangements?
Session Chair: Prof. Michael Meuser
2.109 
14:00 - 16:00WS13: Work and family life I - maternal employment: conducive and inhibiting factors
Session Chair: Dr. Niall Hanlon, Dublin Business School
2.512 
16:30 - 18:30Symposium: Plurality, change, and continuity in intergenerational family relations: the role of ambivalences
2.105 
16:30 - 18:30Symposium: Changing gender arrangements – new imaginations of parenthood. Reconciliation of occupational and family life in a neoliberal society.
2.106 
16:30 - 18:30WS14: Couple relationships III - what keeps couples and families together?
Session Chair: Dr. Sara Mazzucchelli, Catholic University
2.107 
16:30 - 18:30WS15: Children, childhood and youth II - growing up under adverse conditions 2
Session Chair: Prof. Gerardo Meil, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
2.108 
16:30 - 18:30WS16: Research on everyday family life
Session Chair: Dr. Eija Sevón, Unniversity of Jyvaskyla
2.109 
16:30 - 18:30WS17: Work and family life II - family and career development
Session Chair: Dr. Marie Valentova, LISER
2.512 
18:45 - 19:45General Assembly of the ESFR
HS2 

 
Date: Friday, 02/Sep/2016
9:00 - 11:00Symposium: Rethinking intergenerational relations: comparative perspectives from Asian youths in Europe and beyond
2.105 
9:00 - 11:00WS18: We don't need no education? Families, school and adolescent substance use
Session Chair: Lenka Sulova, Univerzita Karlova v Praze
2.106 
9:00 - 11:00WS19: Work and family life III - employment patterns, working conditions and family relations 1
Session Chair: Prof. Anna Katriina Rönkä, University of Jyväskylä
2.107 
9:00 - 11:00WS20: Parenthood and family formation IV - social support during and after the transition to parenthood
Session Chair: Prof. Kimmo Jokinen, University of Jyväskylä
2.108 
9:00 - 11:00WS21: Pluralisation of family forms II - varieties at the level of the couple (relationships)
Session Chair: Silvia Donato, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
2.109 
9:00 - 11:00WS22: Family relations and migration - recent trends and analyses
Session Chair: Dr. Jennifer Fietz, Technische Universität Dortmund
2.512 
11:30 - 13:00Keynote: Intra-Family relations and willingness to support the ageing parents in a life span perspective: on differential treatment of children, mixed emotions and differing intentions (Prof. Dieter Ferring)
HS2 
11:30 - 13:00Keynote: Managing family life in unmanageable situations! Parenting practices of migrant care-workers and their significant others in post-socialist Europe (Prof. Helma Lutz)
HS3 
13:00 - 14:00Doctoral Student Meeeting
2.105 
14:00 - 16:00Invited symposium: Social networks and social support of older migrants
2.105 
14:00 - 16:00Symposium: Parental nonstandard work schedules, families and children
2.106 
14:00 - 16:00WS23: Life course, aging and intergenerational relations II - care for older family members: spotlights on Eastern Europe
Session Chair: Prof. Monika Reichert, TU Dortmund
2.107 
14:00 - 16:00WS24: Children, childhood and youth III - growing up in foster care and in foster care families
Session Chair: Dr. Matthias Euteneuer, TU Dortmund
2.108 
14:00 - 16:00WS25: Family law and policy
Session Chair: Nicole Kirchhoff, TU Dortmund
2.109 
16:30 - 18:30Symposium: Advanced methodologies in family studies
2.105 
16:30 - 18:30Symposium: Managing stress together: benefits and correlates of dyadic coping in couples
2.106 
16:30 - 18:30WS26: Work and family life IV - employment patterns, working conditions and family relations 2
Session Chair: Nicole Weißelberg, Universität Siegen
2.107 
16:30 - 18:30WS27: Life course, aging and intergenerational relations III - care for older family members
Session Chair: Martina Brandt, TU Dortmund
2.108 
16:30 - 18:30WS28: Parenthood and family formation V - fertility and transition to parenthood
Session Chair: Dr. Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot, Radboud University Nijmegen
2.109 
20:00Social Evening
U-Tower Dortmund City 

 
Date: Saturday, 03/Sep/2016
9:00 - 11:00Invited symposium: The politics of parenting and social work - an analyses of social work programs and practices as parenting policies
2.106 
9:00 - 11:00WS29: Life course, aging and intergenerational relations IV - relationships between young adults and their parents - possiblities and constraints
Session Chair: Prof. Fred Berger, University of Innsbruck
2.107 
9:00 - 11:00WS30: Parenthood and family formation VI - motherhood and fatherhood in media discourses
Session Chair: Dr. Anne-Kristin Kuhnt, University Duisburg-Essen
2.108 
9:00 - 11:00WS31: Pluralisation of family forms IV - union dissolution and parenthood
Session Chair: Dr. Thorsten Kneip, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
2.109 
11:30 - 12:30Keynote: Making sense of parenthood(s): gender, "responsibilities" and practices of caring in longitudinal family research (Prof. Tina Miller)
HS1 
12:30 - 13:30Closing Session
 
13:30 - 14:30Farewell Reception (Foyer EF 50)
Foyer