SEPT09

Attached is recent news in the adoption arena that is relevant to inter-country adoption.

For older news, go to ARCHIVES
 

ADOPTEE NEWS
 

ICASN & AVI Australia-wide Adoptee Events

• Australia-wide Info

• WA: Transracial Adoptee Film Event
  1 Nov, 09

• NSW: Transracial Adoptee Artist & Panel Event 7 Nov, 09

• SA: Transracial Adoptee Film & Art Event
  Date TBA

Adoptee Stories / News

• Adopted Teen finds his Biological Parents

• Adopted teen finds answers, mystery in China

• Henry and Bee - ABC Film about Aboriginal adoptee who finds her father
  Rescreening @ Fri Sept 4 on ABC1 @ 6pm

• The Price We All Pay - Human Trafficking in International Adoption

• Wayson Choy - Chinese born adoptee raised in Canada writes his autobiography Not Yet and on Radio ABC

• My Huong Le's Story - Vietnamese adoptee

• Anthony Capon - Philippino adoptee raised in Aust, winner of Project Runway Australia

• AFAAD - new google group

Adoptees to Participate

• SA: Film & Arts Festival looking for Adoptee Artists & Volunteers

• SA: Adoptee Mentors 20yrs+ for mentoring younger adoptees.  Full training provided by PASS.  Contact Sandi

• Call for Korean adoptees to participate in Book

• NSW: AFC Charity Music Showcase Concert

• UK: BAAF Book - Call for Adopted Adults to participate in Anthology of Writing & Poetry on lifelong experience of adoption

• Australian Journal of Adoption: Collecting material for 2nd Edition - for submissions contact Thomas Graham

Adoptee Social Events

• SA: Chinese Cultural Day
  5 Sept @ College Park Scout Hall, Joslin

• SA: Adoptees from the UK Gathering
  30 Sept, 2009

• SA: Adoption, Identity & Belonging
  8 week support group
  6 Oct - 24 Nov, 2009 @ 4:30 - 6:30pm

• VIC: ICASN Korean Dinner & Karaoke
  White Tomato (160 Bourke St, CBD)
  Sat 3 Oct @ 7:30pm
  RSVP to Jess

• WA: Transracial Adoptee Film Event
  1 Nov, 2009

• NSW: Transracial Adoptee Artist & Panel Event
  7 Nov, 2009

• NSW: PARC Adoption Events Calendar

• USA: Bay Area AFAAD Discussion & Potluck Lunch
  Sat 10 Oct, 2009 @ 11am - 1pm
  Contact AFAAD to RSVP

• USA: Bay Area AFAAD Evening Discussion
  Wed 2 Dec, 2009 @ 7 - 9pm
  Contact AFAAD to RSVP

• USA: AFAAD 2nd Annual Gathering
  6 - 8 Nov, 2009
  Oakland, CA, USA

Camps / Return Trips to Birth Country

• USA: Filipino Heritage & Culture Camps 2009

• USA: Catalyst Foundation Culture Camps - Vietnam
  July 2009

• AUST/USA: TIES return trip to India
  27 Dec 09 - 10 Jan 10

• Worldwide: Operation Reunite - Vietnam Return Trip April 2010

General Inter-Country Adoption News
 

Books / Film

• International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children

• Adoption Reunion: Ecstasy or Agony?

• Questions Adoptees Ask

• BFI London Film Festival: Under the Tree

• DVD: Readings from The Colours in Me

• Film: The Waiting City

Media / News Articles

• Survey on Return Trips to China for Adoptive Parents

• Terminating an Adoption

• Draft Bill favours adoption of Local children

• Adoption boss says Ministry puts trade before children

• Madonna adoption saga on Fringe

• What's wrong with UNICEF?

• Children in China who need Adoptive Families

• From "Chinese eyes" to Asian American

• Chinese babies stolen by officials for foreign adoption

• See Baby Discriminate

• CBI to submit another report on adoption centre

• Wealthy Australian couple fight for custody of African girl

• Two Dutch adoption agencies stop adoptions from Ethiopia

• Foreign Correspondent: Fly Away Children

• Vietnam puts 16 people on trial for selling babies for foreign adoption

• No babies for adoption, as hopeful parents line up

• Racilious - Rebecca Walker on Capitalism and Transracial Adoption

• According to the Dutch law system, Madeleine should stay with the ones who stole her

• Six jailed for Vietnam baby fraud

• Stolen from his mother and sold to the highest bidder

Research

• The Rise & Fall of Intercountry Adoption - by Peter Selman (2009)

• Journal of Korean Adoption Studies
  Call for Papers deadline 1 Sept 09

• PASS: Intercountry Adoption & Schools - Information Booklet for Teachers

Attorney General's Dept for Intercountry Adoption

• General Updates 

• Country Program Updates

• Intercountry Adoption Process

• Updates on Consultative Groups

Education

• VIC: PPSS Book Club & Discussion Evening
  11 Sept 09 Article for Discussion

• VIC: PPSS Preserving Memories Monthly Workshop 24 Sept 09

• SA: Family Korean Language & Culture Course
  30 Jul - 17 Sept 09

• SA: Tree of Life Workshop
  8 Oct 09

• SA: Therapuetic Parenting for Adoptive Parents
  October & November, 09

• Jayne Schooler in New Zealand, June 2010
  Assessing, Preparing & Supporting Families caring for Traumatized Children and Children in Out-of-Home Care

Conferences

• Australian National Forum on Post Adoption
  for workers in Govt & Non-Govt sector only
  15 - 17 Sept, 2009
  Adelaide, SA, Australia

• Mothering & Migration Conference
  18 - 20 Feb, 2010
  Puerto Rico

• 41st Anniversary Convention
  Northeast Modern Language Association
  7 - 11 April, 2010
  Montreal Quebec, Canada
  Calls for papers : Adoption Memoirs

• Alliance for the study of Adoption & Culture
  3rd International Conference, 2010
  Adoption: Secret Histories, Public Policies
  20 - 23 May, 2010
  Cambridge, MA, USA

• Adoption Conference 2010: Connections
  4 - 6 June, 2010
  Mount Wellington, Auckland, New Zealand
  Details

• 3rd International Conference on Adoption Research (ICAR)
  11 - 15 July, 2010
  Leiden University, The Netherlands
  Call for Papers

• 12th Annual KAAN Conference
  23 - 25 Jul, 2010
  Harrisburg, PA

• Call for Papers (ends Sept 15, 2009) for
  The 2nd International Symposium on Korean Studies (sponsored by IKAA)
  3 August, 2010
  Seoul, Korea

• Shedding Light on the Adoption Experience XI
  The Lifelong Effects of Adoption & Need for Family Preservation
  24 - 25 Sept, 2010
  New York City, USA