The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture officially adopted a constitution in 1998, under the name The Alliance for the Study of Adoption, Identity, and Kinship.  We seek to promote understanding of the experience and institution of adoption in relation to literature, history, philosophy, anthropology, law, political theory, cultural studies, and other humanistic disciplines, and to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of artistic creation dealing with adoption and related issues in poetry, fiction, memoir, film and other disciplines.  We have arranged two international conferences, and publish the journal Adoption and Culture and an annual newsletter.

Adoption and Culture: Interdisciplinary Journal of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture

Previous conferences:

University of Pittsburgh, 2007

University of Tampa, 2005

Sponsors:

1. •Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
   

2. •Mass Humanities
   

3. •MIT, Office of the Dean of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences,, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Literature Section, Women’s and Gender Studies Program.
   

4. •University of New Hampshire, Center for the Humanities, College of Liberal Arts, Philosophy Department.
   

5. •Department of English, Rutgers University - Camden.