Seventh Biennial Conference October 18, 2018

Formations: Thinking Kinship through Adoption, sponsored by the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture

ASAC 2018 Call for Proposals

Topics of interest include:

•  Studies of the economies, ethics, or aesthetics of intimacy;
• Studies of how race, gender, sexuality, and class shape kinship formations;
•  Critical analyses of adoption narratives, histories, discourses, and life experiences;
• Studies of literary, cinematic, dramatic, musical, visual, dance, popular culture, or performance art
  representations of kinship formations;
• Studies of the impacts of increasing global mobility and migration and refugee crises on kinship
  formations; and
• Studies of the production of new forms of kinship in social media and other digital and online
  locations.