The GRPD funding award will enable a 4-day cross-disciplinary, international symposium on Adoptee and Kinship Rights in May 2023 [23^rd - 26th]. In conjunction with project partners the Korean Adoptee Adoption Research Network ('KAARN') and Brown University, the event will focus on the concept of origin deprivation (the loss of genetic ancestry, identity, and kinship) as it occurs within international and domestic adoptions, surrogacy, and gamete donation. Speakers include:

Nikolaj Pedersen (Yonsei University, South Korea/KAARN)

Emily Hipchen (Brown University, U.S./ The Alliance for the Study of Adoption & Culture)

Boon Young Han (Seoul National University, South Korea/KAARN)

Ryan Gustaffson (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Tobias Hubinette (Karlstad University, Sweden)

Frances Latchford (York University, Ontario)

John McLeod (University of Leeds)

Jacqueline Wilson MBE (Kinship Care, NI)

The event aims to examine the overlaps and intersections that exist across the jurisdictions and disciplines of the participants (Law, History, Humanities, Philosophy, Critical Adoption Studies, Social Work). A number of talks - and the final day's roundtable event - will be open to the public as online webinars.