Conference Bridging Cultures, Building Families: Exploring the Dynamics of Multicultural Families
De International Commission on Couple and Family Relations (ICCFR) houdt haar conferentie 'Bridging Cultures, Building Families: Exploring the Dynamics of Multicultural Families' op de campus van Odisee. Deze conferentie verloopt volledig in het Engels.
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Programma
Keynote speakers:
Thursday PM, 28 May 2026:
Prof Marie-Claire Foblets, Belgian legal scholar and anthropologist renowned for her work on migration, legal pluralism and the interaction between law and culture, will talk about “How globalisation and socio-cultural change reshape family systems”.
Friday AM, 29 May 2026:
Researchers Dirk Geldof, Kathleen Emmery, Silke Peeters, Kim Lecoyer and Birsen Taspinar will present “When the family becomes superdiverse. How bi-cultural couples challenge family support and policies”.
Friday PM, 29 May 2026:
Philippe Lortie, First Secretary at the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) in the Netherlands, will talk about “The Application of the Hague Children Conventions to Families on the Move Including Bicultural Families”.
In addition to the keynote presentations, we have the following workshops 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
- “I Feel Expanded”: The Reconstruction of Social Support in Psychosocial Support Groups for Refugees and Migrants in Belgium