Session

Session 9.1. International Adoption in TV, Documentary, Film, Print

Chair: Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, English, University

Elise Prebin, Anthropology, Harvard University, “Representations of Lost Children in South Korean Television”

Mark Jerng, English, University of California at Davis, “Writing Transnational Adoption Between Rights and Needs”

Diana Marre, Anthropology, Autonomous University of Barcelona and Institute of Childhood and the Urban World (CIIMU), “Public Understanding of ‘New’ Families: Representing International Adoption in Spain”

Session 9.2 Who is Allowed to Mother? Welfare, Class, the State, and the Family

Chair: Mary Lyndon (Molly) Shanley, Political Science, Vassar College

Claudia Nelson, English and Women’s Studies,  Texas A and M University,  “Adoption and Class in Victorian England”

Catherine E. Rymph, History, University of Missouri,  “Parents Who Are Not Supposed to Act Parental: Foster Parenting and Adoptive Parenting, 1950-1997”

Cynthia Ninivaggi, Anthropology, Georgian Court University,  “Lessons from their Silence: Twentieth Century Relinquishment and ‘Expert’ Discourse”

Session 9.3 Adoption and Race in American Literature

Chair: Carol Singley, English and Women's Studies, Rutgers University-Camden

Cynthia Callahan, English, Ohio State University at Mansfield, “Slavery’s Tangled Genealogies: Adoption and Racial Purity in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Fiction”

Lori Askeland, English, Wittenberg University, “The Shock of Recognition: Kinship Care Across the Color Line in U. S. Literature and Culture”

Martha Satz, English, Southern Methodist University, “Adopting America: Adoption as an Entree to the Immigrant Experience in Anne Tyler’s Digging to America and Gish Jen’s Love Wife”

Session 10.

Introduction: Jean Ferguson Carr, English and Women's Studies, University of PIttsburgh

Keynote: Susan Bordo, English and Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky
“Will the “Real” Parent (s) (s) (s) (s) Please Step Forward?: Beyond our Fantasies and Fears about Open Adoption”

Session 11.1 Adoption Novels: British, American, and Transnational

Chair: Marah Gubar, English and Children's Literature , University of Pittsburgh

Susan Howard, English, Duquesne University, "Transracial Identities in the EIghteenth Century Transatlantic Novel: Questioning National Identities in Charlotte Lennox's Euphemia"

Margaret Homans, English and Women’s Studies, Yale University, Adoption in Silas Marner and What Maisie Knew

Carol Singley, English and Women’s Studies, Rutgers-Camden,  “Sacrificing Sentiment in Edith Wharton’s Adoption Novel, Summer”

Session 11.2  Adoptive and First Mothers Blog Their Way through New Family Structures

Chair: Shannon LC Cate, English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Editor, LiteraryMama.com e-zine

Shannon LC Cate, “Challenging Adoption Blogs” 

Dawn Friedman, Op-Ed Editor, Literary Mama, “Someone Else’s Shoes: How Dialogue On-Blog Impacted a Real Adoption”

Susan Marie Harrington, English and Women’s Studies, Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis, “Adoption Online: The Creation of Narrative Spaces and Identity”

Jenna Hatfield, AdoptionBlogs.com,  “First Mothers Find  a Voice”

Session 11.3 “What Stories are Adoption Stories: Historians Talk about Memories, Bureaucracies, Narratives, and Numbers”

Chair, E. Wayne Carp, HIstory, Pacific Lutheran University

Ellen Herman, History, University of Oregon, “Of Numbers and Narratives”

Karen Balcom, History and Women’s Studies, McMaster University (Canada),  “Government Policy: Institutional Imperative and the History of Adoption: The Case of Canadian Adoption Exchanges”

Karen Dubinsky, History, Queen’s University (Canada), “Saving Cuba’s Children, From Operation Peter Pan to Elian Gonzalez”

Session 12.1 Approaches to Adoptees’ Identity: Myths, Metaphors,  and Genetics

Chair: Sally Haslanger, Philosophy and Women's Studies, MIT

Penny Callan Partridge, M.S.W. and poet, Adoption Forum and American Adoption Congress,   “Pandora and Pinocchio--Beginning and End of Adoptee Experience”

Jill Deans, Office of National Scholarships, University of Connecticut, “What’s in a Hole?”

Kimberly Leighton, Philosophy, Tufts University, “Genetic Artifacts: Digging up the Meaning of ‘Family Background’ in the History of Adoption”

Session 12.2 Legal, Ethical, and Psychological Approaches to New Family Structures

Chair, Sabine von Dirke, German, University of Pittsburgh

Annette Ruth Appell, Law, University of Nevada at Las Vegas,“The New Blended Families: Legal, Blood, and Fictive Kin Networks in Open Adoption”

Mary Lyndon (Molly) Shanley, Political Science, Vassar College, "Reflections on Anonymity in Human Sperm and Egg Donation"

Joyce Maguire Pavao, Center For Family Connections, “A Psychologist’s Responses to Open Adoption and Artificial Insemination”

Session 12.3 Internationally Adoptive Parents

Chair: Nancy McCabe, English, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford

Kristine Freeark, Center for Human Growth and Development,  University of Michigan, “Make Room for Daddy: The Impact of Father Involvement on the Adoption Dialogue in Transnationally Adoptive Families” (written with Katherine Rosenblum)

Mitch Levenberg, English, St. Francis College and New York University, Excerpts from a memoir about adopting in China

Chris Winston, Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network, “Adoptive Parents, Race, and Children’s Ethnic Communities”

Indigo WIlliams Willing, Social Science, University of Queensland, "New Global Families: Celebrity Adopters to 'Ordinary' Australian Adoptive Parents"

Session 13. Business meeting of ASAIK

Session 14. Phil Bertelsen, Realization Pictures

showing and discussing his film, Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in America