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

Emily Prager
Doroty Roberts

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

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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