About this Event
Eminent scholar and author Pei-Chia Lan will deliver The Sociological Review’s 2022 Annual Lecture on 27 October in Birmingham.
Childrearing, fatherhood and migration will be the themes of the public lecture by Professor Lan, who is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Global Asia Research Center at National Taiwan University.
Xiaodong Lin, Editor-in-Chief of The Sociological Review journal, said “I am thrilled to announce that The Sociological Review Annual Lecture is back this autumn. It is a great honour for us to welcome Professor Pei-Chia Lan to deliver our first in-person public lecture since 2019.
“A prominent international sociologist, Professor Lan has undertaken globally influential work in the field of sociology of gender, migration and family relations. Her monograph Global Cinderellas offered valuable critical analysis on how migrant women identify themselves in relation to ‘others’, with reference to classes, nationalities and ethnicities within the dynamic context of transnational labour migration.
“More recently, her award-winning 2018 book Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US shed light on how culture and class intersect in ethnic Chinese parents’ negotiation of childrearing practices in Taiwan and the United States in the contexts of globalisation and migration,” the Editor-in-Chief added.
Professor Lan’s latest book has been praised by fellow scholars as “an extraordinary contribution to contemporary scholarship on parenting strategies that illuminates complex processes such as globalization and transnationalism” and “a must-read for all who seek to understand family, class, and mobility in the age of global capitalism”.
In The Sociological Review 2022 Annual Lecture, Professor Lan will discuss her research with Taiwanese parents and their counterparts who emigrated to the US, and share what the findings reveal about how how people negotiate childrearing strategies and fatherhood identities in relation to local and transnational reference groups. She will discuss the rising phenomenon of ‘global householding’ across social class divides and examine the interconnection between different kinds of mobilities and immobilities.
Professor Lan’s lecture is entitled Childrearing, Fatherhood and Migration: a transnational relational analysis. The event, which is free and open to all, will be held in the historic Main Meeting House of The Priory Rooms in central Birmingham from 18:00 GMT/UTC.
The Annual Lecture will be preceded by a reception and book signing from 16:30 to 17:50 at the venue.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Priory Rooms Meeting & Conference Centre, 40 Bull Street, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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