UCI Humanities Center
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Somewhere Sisters Conversation
Wednesday · November 2 · 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Hybrid Event
In-person: UCI Humanities Gateway 1010
Register: https://bit.ly/SomewhereSistersUCI
Online: Zoom Webinar
Register: https://bit.ly/UCISomewhereSistersZoom
Please join us to celebrate the publication of Erika Hayasaki's book, Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Migration, and the Meaning of Family (Algonquin, 2022). Prof. Hayasaki will be in conversation with Eleana Kim, professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.
Please rsvp by October 30, 2022 to join us in person on November 2, 2-3 p.m. in Humanities Gateway 1010. If you want to register to attend virtually, please register at https://bit.ly/UCISomewhereSistersZoom
Erika Hayasaki is an associate professor of literary journalism at the University of California, Irvine. She is a journalist interested in the intersections of identity, race, psychology, inequality, science, technology, history, and the human condition. Her stories appear in The New York Times Magazine, Wired, The Atlantic, Marie Claire, MIT Technology Review, Slate, The New Republic, The Guardian, Newsweek, Time, Glamour, Foreign Policy, and others. She is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, where she spent nine years covering breaking news and writing feature stories.
Eleana Kim is the author of Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging (Duke 2010).