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Month: January 2019

Lecture with Eleana Kim and Laura Briggs at Yale 1/29

January 11, 2019 by KPN

Professor Park Nelson will deliver a lecture, co-authored with Professor Eleana Kim on a panel with Professor Laura Briggs sponsored by Yale Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.  For more information, check the event page.

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Also-Known-As Lecture in New York City 1/24

January 11, 2019January 11, 2019 by KPN

Professor Park Nelson will be presenting new work, “The Normalcy of Search: Disabling Societies and Adoptee Identities” in a lecture and dialogue presented by Also-Known-As, the New York Korean adoptee org.  For more information, check out their event page. page. Hope to see you there!

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Recent News

  • Kim Park Nelson Podcast Interview: Bearing Witness/Soul-Study
  • “Natural Born Aliens: Transnational Adoptees and US Citizenship” by Eleana Kim and Kim Park Nelson cited in New York Times Op Ed
  • Lecture with Eleana Kim and Laura Briggs at Yale 1/29
  • Also-Known-As Lecture in New York City 1/24
  • Conference on the History and Practices of International Adoptions, 17-18 November, Kassel University, Germany

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Invisible Asians

Invisible Asians book cover

The life stories of Korean adoptees underpin Kim Park Nelson's critical examination of adoption history, adoptee identity and transnational adoption policy from the 1950s to the present day.

Contemporary Asian America

Contemporary Asian America book cover

“Mapping Multiple Histories of Korean American Transnational Adoption” by Kim Park Nelson is included in the third edition of Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader.

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