July 03, 2025 | News

New IUSSP Panel on Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities

Meet the members at IPC2025 in Brisbane

We are happy to announce that the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) has recently created the Scientific Panel Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities, chaired by Diego Alburez-Gutierrez from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). The steering committee of the panel includes Saroja Adhikari and Bettina Hünteler (MPIDR), Prof. Luca Maria Pesando (New York University Abu Dhabi), Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan (National University of Singapore) and Ashton Verdery (Pennsylvania State University).

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The aim of this panel is to bring together researchers from the fields of demography, sociology, public health and related disciplines to promote the comparative study of kinship. The team aims to organize workshops, conferences and other events to highlight and foster research on kinship structures and dynamics. Topics of interest include the availability and lack of kin, intergenerational processes and resource exchanges, and kin loss, among others.

The panel's first workshop, "An Introduction to the Analysis of Population-Level Kinship Structures," will take place in Mumbai, India, from November 24 to 27, 2025.

Learn more about the panel here.  If you are interested in joining the panel, email kinship@demogr.mpg.de

First Open Meeting of the Panel at IPC2025

Saroja Adhikari and Bettina Hünteler will join the IPC in Brisbane, Australia. They invite you to join the first open meeting at the IPC, where you can network and mingle, on Wednesday (July 16) at 19:30. The meeting will take place at The Plough INN, 29 Stanley St Plaza, Brisbane.

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