Kim Park Nelson at UC Irvine

Kim Park Nelson will be making three public appearances at UC Irvine on Monday, November 7 as part of the Homescapes/Warscapes series.  Click here for full information. Hope to see you there!  

Keynote Address at the Fourth International Symposium on Korean Adoption Studies

Kim Park Nelson will deliver the keynote address at the Fourth International Symposium on Korean Adoption Studies on Wednesday, August 3 in Seoul, South Korea. Her address will include excerpts from Invisible Asians and will focus on what has happened in the last ten years of Korean Adoption Studies.  Click here for more information.

Invisible Asians book launch

Come celebrate the publication of Invisible Asians, Kim Park Nelson’s academic monograph about Korean American adoptee identity and history. Saturday, March 12, 2016, 7 p.m. Open Book, 1011 Washington Ave. S, Minneapolis, MN The program will include readings from the book as well as additional readings of Korean adoptee oral histories by Korean adoptee actors … Read more…

2016 conferences

Here’s where I’m heading in 2016: Association for Asian American Studies conference, Miami, April 28-30. Fourth International Symposium on Korean Adoption Studies, Seoul, August 3. American Studies Association annual meeting, Denver, November 17-20.

ASAC 2016 Conference in Minneapolis

The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture (ASAC) will hold its Sixth Biennial Conference in Minneapolis October 27 through 29, 2016. Proposals will be accepted through March 1, 2016. As a long-time resident of Minneapolis and a member of the ASAC Executive Committee, I’m excited to welcome this event to my home town. I’m particularly … Read more…

Fourth International Symposium on Korean Adoption Studies

I’m honored to be presenting the keynote address at the Fourth International Symposium on Korean Adoption Studies on August 3, 2016 in Seoul, South Korea, as part of the International Korean Adoptee Associations’ 2016 Korean Adoptee Gathering. The day-long symposium will bring together scholars from around the world who are conducting research in the field … Read more…