Encounter and Adoption

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How is Adoption Today Redefining Family, Parenthood, Identity?
How are adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents redefining adoption?

Perspectives from literary critics, creative writers, anthropologists, philosophers,
historians, sociologists, and others on representations, practices, histories,
meanings, and experiences of adoption.

Keynote Speakers

Susan Bordo Bio	Emily Prager Bio	Dorothy Roberts Bio
Professor of English Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities Department of English University of Kentucky Author of Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body	Author of Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China	Professor of Law Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law Northwestern University Author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning Of Liberty and Shattered Bonds

Filmmakers

Phil Bertelsen	Jean Strauss
presenting Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in America	presenting The Triumvirate and Vital Records NEW

and many others...

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Convener: Marianne Novy
Email: adoptnew@pitt.edu
Web site: www.english.pitt.edu/events/adoptionandculture

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