Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris Chairs International Seminar “New and Emerging Family Forms around the Globe”

Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris, Chair of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) Scientific Panel on “New and Emerging Family Forms around the Globe” organized the 2nd International Seminar on 20-21 January 2020 at the University of the Philippines, with the U.P. Population Institute (UPPI) hosting.

Despite the threat from Taal Volcano, participants from 8 countries safely arrived and presented papers on issues such as cohabitation in Cameroon, living alone in the Philippines, commuter marriages in Nigeria, and arranged marriages in India. The Seminar included many lively discussions about how families around the world are rapidly changing.