About this Event

Contemporary Western discourses often stress the individualistic nature of our societies. From this perspective, families are an outdated institution that, for most adult individuals, do not “matter” anymore in our contemporary world.

Join Professor Bahira Trask to examine the validity of this concept and why this has become such a dominant idea. The talk will focus on current migration trends, the role of remittances and family life, and what we can learn from these trends about the contemporary role of families in Western and non-Western societies.

Bahira Trask is a professor and chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on globalization, women’s employment, and family change in Western and non-Western countries. In addition to authoring several books on these subjects, Trask has worked closely with the Focal Point on the Family division in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations.

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This in-person event is free and open to the public. It will not be recorded.

All event attendees must RSVP and will need to show ID upon arrival.

This is the 2022 Faculty Lecture, an annual event sponsored by the Friends of the University of Delaware Library.