I’m heading out for Cambridge later this morning for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture conference at MIT. This theme this year is Adoption: Secret Histories, Public Policies. You can see the program here.

I’m delivering a paper on “safe havens.” Here my panel:

Secrecy and Openness: Legal Issues
Chair: Sara Dillon, Suffolk University School of Law

“Preventing Harmful Secrecy: Blood-ties, Best Interests and Veto Victims.”
Alice Diver, School of Law, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

Letting the Genes Out of the Bottle: Should New Paradigms in Medicine Lead Us to New
Paradigms in Adoption?
Martha Satz, Southern Methodist University

‘Safe Haven’ Laws: Promoting the Culture of Secrets and Shame in an Age of Adoption Openness–Ohio Case Study.”
Marley Greiner, activist, Bastard Nation, Ohio

So, things will be a little quiet here, despite a lot of breaking news in the last few weeks. I’ll try to post about the conference and some pictures.