The Japanese family & child custody

Thursday, January 13, 2010, 4:00-5:15 PM

THE JAPANESE FAMILY AND CHILD CUSTODY

“I encouraged Minister Maehara and the Government of Japan to work toward ratification of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.”

– US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Remarks With Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Seiji Maehara After Their Meeting (As Prepared), Washington, DC, January 6, 2011

Presenter

Dr. Allison Alexy

Anthropologist

Allison Alexy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Lafayette College. Her teaching and research focus on family lives, intimacy, and social change in contemporary Japan. Professor Alexy is the co-editor (with Richard Ronald) of Home and Family in Contemporary Japan: Continuity and Transformation (Routledge 2011) and is currently finishing a manuscript entitled Intimate Separations: Divorce and its Reverberations in Contemporary Japan. Professor Alexy received a BA double concentrating in Anthropology and Sociology from the University of Chicago, and a PhD in Anthropology from Yale University.

Program Location

1150 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 801

(Blake Real Estate Conference Room),

Washington, DC

Free, Reservations Required, Coffee

(202) 822-6040

Space Limited