Friday November 17th

13:00 – 13:30
Arrival & Registration

13:30 – 14:00
Welcome & Introduction
Silke Hackenesch (Kassel University)

14:00 – 15:00
Representations of Adoption in Art and Literature

Chair:
Daniel Göske (Kassel University)

Cynthia Callahan (Ohio State University)
„African American Adoption in Post-World War II American Literature”

Anja Michaelsen (Ruhr University Bochum)
„Forgetting Kinship. Politics of Memory in Adopted Koreans’ Audio-Visual Art”

15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:30
Adoptions and Missionary Work

Chair:
Clelia Caruso (Kassel University)

Julia Hauser (Kassel University)
„Saving Souls? ‘Orphan Parenting’ in Missionary Contexts in the Ottoman Empire (1860-1918)”

Soojin Chung (Boston University)
„American Female Missionaries as Pioneers of Transnational Adoption in Korea, 1945-1965”

16:30 – 17:30
Reception

17:30 – 19:00
Keynote Address

Laura Briggs (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
„The intimate politics of race and globalization: Transracial and transnational adoption in the United States“

Saturday November 18th

09:00 – 09:30
Informational Session on The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture (ASAC)

09:30 – 11:00
‚Intercountry’ Adoptions from Germany

Chair:
Michaela Hampf (Kassel University)

Silke Hackenesch (Kassel University)
„Adoptions by Proxy – In the Best Interest of the Children?”

Kori A. Graves (SUNY Albany)
„’Coloured [sic] Americans and No Savages...’: African-American Families and Intercountry Adoption in the 1950s and 1960s”

Rosemarie Pena (Rutgers University)
„Black Germans: Reunification & Belonging in Diaspora“

11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30
Adoption, Reproduction, and Feminist Perspectives

Chair:
Jürgen Martschukat (Erfurt University)

Johanna Gondouin (Stockholm University)
„Transnational Adoption and Swedish Feminism“

Tracey Patton (University of Wyoming)
„Womb Wars: White German Women, Black American Men, and Their Children in Post-World War II Germany”

12:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30
Asian Adoptions and the Politics of Race

Chair:
Benedikt Stuchtey (Philipps-University Marburg)

Lene Myong (Stavanger University)
„(Un)Ethical Reproduction: Examining Danish Media Debates on ART and Transnational Adoption from China”

Tobias Hübinette (Karlstad University)
„Transnational adoption between negative and positive race hygiene“

Kim Park Nelson (Minnesota State University at Moorhead)
„Adoptees as White Koreans: Identity, Racial Visibility, and the Politics of Passing among Korean American Adoptees”

15:30 – 16:00
Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:00
Closing Remarks

Peter Selman (Newcastle University)
„One million children moving, reflections on 70 years of international adoption since the end of World War II“

18:00
Conference Dinner