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Displaced Childhood: interdisciplinary perspectives
3 June 2025 - 3 June 2025
10:00AM - 6:00PM
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin's Hall, Palace Green
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Free
An interdisciplinary workshop on Displaced Childhood PIs: Professor Nayanika Mookherjee (Anthropology), Dr Gabriella Treglia (History), Professor Simon Hackett (Sociology) with IAS Fellow Dr Noa Vaisman (Anthropology, Aarhus University) and collaborating researcher Professor David Brodzinsky (Psychology, Rutgers)
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Displaced Childhood aims to explore the relationship between the memories and life trajectories among adult adoptees who were displaced from their birth families as children and moved into alternative families or institutions, as a result of state interventions. We seek to examine the experiences of adult adoptees who are retrospectively reassessing the stories they have been given to form their life trajectories. The various themes we are interested in exploring in relation to adoption are memory, belonging, mental health, fantasies, bio-social debates, search for natal family/roots and the role of DNA.
See Displaced Childhood_Workshop Programme
Contact Professor Nayanika Mookherjee at nayanika.mookherjee@durham.ac.uk.