[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Encountering New Worlds of Adoption

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CFP: Encountering New Worlds of Adoption: 2nd International Conference
on Adoption and Culture
Conference date: October 11-14 at the University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh PA 15260
Proposal deadline: March 1, 2007

Organized by the Alliance for the Study of Adoption, Identity, and Kinship
Conference Organizer: Marianne Novy (University of Pittsburgh)

Is adoption today remaking the face of the family? Is it redefining
parenthood? How can literary critics, philosophers, anthropologists,
historians, sociologists, legal scholars, political scientists, culture
studies scholars, and others give perspectives to current adoption
issues such as identity, esp. transracial and transnational, family,
socioeonomic and/or international inequalities, openness, kinship,
loss, and commodification? Papers should discuss representations of
adoption (this could include representations of birthparents) in
literature, film, and other arts, and/or interactions between adoption
practices and culture(s) in fields such as those listed.

Keynote speakers will be

Susan Bordo, Professor of English, University of Kentucky, author of
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body;

Emily Prager, author of Wuhu Diary: On Taking my Adopted Daughter Back
to Her Hometown in
China;

and Dorothy Roberts, Professor of Law at Northwestern University, author
of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of
Liberty and Shattered Bonds.

Also expected are Jill Deans, Sara Dorow, Ellen Herman, Emily Hipchen,
Sally Haslanger, Margaret Homans, Sandra Patton-Imani, and Carol Singley.

Please send 200-word proposals for papers, with a brief cv., by March 1,
to Marianne Novy (mnovy at pitt.edu).


Marianne Novy
Department of English, University of Pittsburgh
Currently Visiting Scholar, Duke University

412-606-0583
Email: mnovy at pitt.edu <mailto:mnovy at pitt.edu>