[Discussion] CFP: Adoption and Culture (3/1/05; 11/18/05-11/20/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CFP: Adoption and Culture International Conference
Conference date: Nov. 18-20 at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida
Proposal deadline: March 1, 2005

Organized by the
Alliance for the Study of Adoption, Identity, and Kinship

Conference Organizers:
Emily Hipchen (University of Tampa)
Marianne Novy (University of Pittsburgh)
Carol Singley (Rutgers University-Camden)

Papers should discuss representations of adoption in literature, film,
and other arts and/or connections between adoption and culture as
studied by historians, anthropologists, philosophers, political
theorists, sociologists, and scholars of law, religious studies,
cultural studies and other fields. Keynote speaker will be Ellen Herman,
Professor of History at the University of Oregon and founder of the
Adoption History Project website.

Please send 200 word proposals for papers, with a brief cv, by March 1,
to Emily Hipchen (ehipchen@ut.edu) and Marianne Novy (mnovy+@pitt.edu).

We are also interested in readings of memoir, poetry, and fiction
dealing with adoption. Send samples to the same addresses.


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