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Conference Presentations 2012 Forthcoming - Indigo Willing and Bert Ballard, 'Chinese Transnational Adoption', Mapping Adoption: Histories, Geographies, Literatures, Politics - ASAC 4th International Conference, Claremont College, CA, USA, 22 - 25 March 2012. 2011 Lynda Cheshire, Indigo Willing and Zlatko Skrbis, 'Unlikely Cosmopolitans: Family Farmers who are Globally Engaged', The Sociological Association of Australia (TASA) Annual Conference, The University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 29 November to 1 December 2011. Event Co-Chair and Panel chair for 'Cross Cultural Perspectives Panel', The Asian Australian Film Forum, Melbourne, 12 - 13 November. Panel chair for 'Power and Identity' papers session, Asian Australian Identities 4 conference, Melbourne, 10 - 11 November. Guest Speaker - Research Presentation, 'Transnational Adoption: History, Perspectives and Directions', at the invitation of The Department of the Attorney General's Office's National Intercountry Adoption Advisory Group (NICAAG) Meeting, Canberra, 28 March 2011. 2010
‘Transnational Adoptive Parents in Australia: Cosmopolitan Horizons, Cross-Border Ties and Issues of Race’ Monash University Adoption Symposium, 30th September to 1st October 2010.
‘Sociology of Adoption Panel’, The International Adoption Summit in Canada, The University of Waterloo, 22 - 25 September 2010. 2008 ‘Exploring Intimacy and Diversity in Contemporary Transnationally Adoptive Parenting’ 9th Australian Adoption Conference, Sponsored by The Department of Community Services and The Post Adoption Resource Centre, Sydney, 3 – 5 September, 2008. ‘Beyond Celebrity Adoptions: A Sociological Study of ‘ordinary’ Australian Transnationally Adoptive Parents’, Adoption in Australia: Contemporary Cultural, Theoretical and Political Perspectives Symposium, Monash University, 3 – 4 July, 2008. 2007 ‘Parenting Migrant Children: A Sociological Study of Australian Transnationally Adoptive Parents’, Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities Conference, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, 5 - 6 December, 2007.
Invited
and sponsored panel speaker: ‘Supporting
Children After Adoption - The Need for Post
Adoption Services’, The Ethics and
Accountability in Adoption Conference, hosted by
the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and
Ethica Inc, Washington DC, 15 – 16 October,
2007.
‘New global
families: Celebrity adopters to ‘ordinary’
Australian adoptive parents’, Encountering
New Worlds of Adoption: 2nd International
Conference on Adoption and Culture, School
of Arts and Sciences, English Department and
Women’s Studies, The University of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of
America, 11- 14, October, 2007.
‘Beyond and
Behind the Celebrity Adoptions: Colonialism and the
Politics of Care’, Celebrity Colonialism: Fame,
Power and Representations Conference, held by The
Post Colonial Studies Group, The University of
Queensland, 12 – 13 April, 2007.
Invited Panel Guest, Women’s Rights Today: Do We Dream Differently?,International Conference Travel Award for The Association for Women's Rights In Development (AWID) Forum, Thailand, 28 October 2005.
Chair of panel on adoption, The International Day Festival seminars x 2, Logan 24th July, 2005.
Invited
paper presentation for Minister of the Queensland
Department of Families and Adoption Legislation
Review Consultative Forum, in May 2005
'Adopted Vietnamese Identities: Not Quiet/Just the Same/Different', Dialogue Across Cultures: Identity, Place, Culture, Organised by the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University, 12 November, 2004. Program
'Inter-country Adoptees: From Being Apart to Becoming A Part of Australian Society?', QLD Mental Health Conference on Families and Separation, sponsored by Origins, Wacol, 15 October, 2004. Co-presented with Stazia Harding.
‘On the Margins: The Politics of Identity of Trans-nationally Adopted Vietnamese’, QUT Applied Ethics Seminar Series, Carseldine Campus, Queensland University of Technology, 10 Sept, 2004.
'White Families, Vietnamese
Voices?: The Adopted Vietnamese War Orphans Today',
8th Annual Adoption Conference Australia,
Adelaide, South Australia, April 2004. Abstract
'Adopted Vietnamese Constructions In The Diaspora' , 2nd presentation to Standing Committee of Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships for Project Diaspora at the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences , UMASS, Boston, USA. 27 September, 2003.
'Cultural background – Who needs it?', The
Postgraduate Research Students Conference,
University Graduate School, University of
Technology, Sydney. 22 August, 2003.
'Downloading Heritage: Vietnamese Diaspora Online' . Media In Transition 2: Globalization and Convergence. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. May 10 - 12 , 2002. Abstract
With Linh Song Nee Lam (UMICH), 'Borders in Cyberspace: The Digital Divide Between Vietnamese Parents and their Children Adopted Abroad Post War'. Generations: Continuity and Conflict, Inaugural Conference and Celebration of Southeast Asia. Yale University, USA. March 1 - 3, 2002. Co-written and presented. Abstract
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