Name: The Violence of Love: Rethinking Adoption*
Start: 2025-06-22T09:45:00-0400
End: 2025-06-22T11:00:00-0400

The KAAN 2025 Conference will take place at The Grand Hyatt in Atlanta, GA, on June 20-22. The theme this year is Growth and Change. As always, we offer an adoptee-only track alongside our general breakout sessions, which are open to all. We also offer programs for adults and youth (ages 8-17). All are welcome, including adoptees, birth families, family members (adoptive parents, spouses/partners, siblings and children of adoptees), service providers, and Korean Americans. We look forward to seeing you there!

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at tech@wearekaan.org.

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Sunday June 22, 2025 9:45am - 11:00am EDT

Buckhead BR 1 (Lower lobby)

I will present on the concept of “the violence of love” in transnational adoptions, which is drawn from my recent open access book, The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States (University of California Press, 2025). Even though love by individuals, agencies, and the nation has fueled transnational adoptions, I will discuss the ways violence has been attached to them in complex ways. I will provide brief examples of how love and violence inform “positive adoption language,” federal adoption legislation, transnational adoption policy, and heritage summer camps for adoptees.

Website: https://sites.ucmerced.edu/kitmyers
Book: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-violence-of-love/paper

This session will also be held on Saturday at 4:15 - 5:30 PM.

Speakers

Kit Myers

Kit Myers is an assistant professor in the Department of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of The Violence of Love: Race, Adoption, and Family in the United States (University of California Press, 2025), which is available... Read More →

Sunday June 22, 2025 9:45am - 11:00am EDT
Buckhead BR 1 (Lower lobby)

General Session (Open To All Attendees), Repeat Session

KAAN 2025

Kit Myers

Attendees (18)

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