Activity Type:
Lecture
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Presenter:
Linda Seligmann, Professor of Anthropology George Mason University
Date:
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 16:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
4130
Linda Seligmann’s recent Broken Links, Enduring Ties: American Adoption Across Race, Class, and Nation compares the meanings that adoptive parents in the US attribute to race and nation and considers how children respond. Her research includes interviews with children as well as memoirs and films by adopted adults. She reveals the shifting cultural patterns and stubborn global forces that shape the quest to know who we are, where we belong, and with whom. For more information contact Marianne Novy, mnovy@pitt.edu. Professor Seligmann’s visit is linked to Eng Lit 617, Changing Families in Literature.
UCIS Unit:
Global Studies Center
Other Pitt Sponsors:
Department of Anthropology
Children’s Literature Program
Department of English
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program
Funding from the Year of the Humanities