Ends of Adoption Symposium
Department: Center for Critical Korean Studies
Date and Time: May 13, 2017 | 9:00 AM-5:30 PMEvent Location: Humanities Instructional Building 135
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| | Schedule9:00 - Coffee and Registration
9:30 - Opening Remarks
Kyung Hyun Kim, Director, Center for Critical Korean Studies
9:45 - Introduction
James Kyung-Jin Lee, Associate Professor, English and Asian American Studies, UCI
10:00 - Keynote Address
Rev. Kim Do-hyun, Director, KoRoot, Seoul, South Korea
10:45 - Coffee Break
11:00 - Panel 1: The Ends of Adoption: Histories and Futures
Kelly Condit, Ph.D., History, University of Minnesota
Cathy Choy, Professor, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
Mette Kim-Larsen, MA, University of Copenhagen
Elizabeth Kopacz, Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside
Eleana Kim (moderator), Associate Professor, Anthropology, UCI
12:30 - Lunch
2:00 - Panel 2: The Ends of Adoption: Kinships of Solidarity
Andrea Kim-Cavicchi, Ph.D., Asian Languages and Literatures, UCLA
Hosu Kim, Associate Professor, Sociology, CUNY Staten Island
Shannon Heit, MA, Anthropology, Hanyang University
Julayne Lee, Adoptee Solidarity Korea-Los Angeles
Rev. Kim Do-hyun, Ph.D. (moderator), Director, KoRoot
3:30 - Coffee Break
3:50 - Film Screening: Resilience, Tammy Chu, dir. (76 min.)
5:00 - Post-screening Panel Discussion
Tammy Chu, Director
Brent Beesley, subject in the documentary
Kimberly McKee, Assistant Prof., Liberal Studies, Grand Valley State University