Speaking Engagements
July 2010
Takin' It to the Streets: The 25th Annual ARCheaology Summer Intensive
Keynote BJ Lifton: “Actions Speak as Loud as Words”
Sunday July 11th, 2:30 - 3 PM
Venue: Center for Family Connections, Provincetown Inn
City: Provincetown, MA
July 11-12, 2010
www.kinnect.org
September 2010
Shedding Light on the Adoption Experience
BJ Lifton with Nicole Burton, Carol Schaefer: “Memoir: Reunion's Final Frontier”
Friday, Sept. 24th 3:10 - 4:30 PM
BJ Lifton: "The Adoptee with a Thousand Selves"
Saturday Sept. 25th at 3:45pm
Sponsor:Adoption Crossroads & Adoption Healing
Venue: Park Central Hotel
City: New York City
October 2010
Open Arms, Open Minds: The Ethics of Adoption in the 21st Century
BJ Lifton: “The Ethics of Search and Reunion”
Venue: St. John's University
City: Manhattan, NY
October 14-16, 2010
www.adoptioninitiative.org
Recent Talks
March 2010
An Afternoon with Betty Jean Lifton
• “The Inner Life of the Adopted Child”
• Travels in the “Ghost Kingdom”
• Issues around Search and Reunion
• Myths and Realities
• The Feelings of All Members of the Adoption Triad
Sunday March 21 from 1:00-4:00pm
Venue: Westport Public Library
City: Westport, CT
Conference information: Reserve a seat by pre-registering at tbadoption@optonline.net . Registration will close by March 7th or once capacity is reached.
April 2010
ADOPTION: Secret Histories, Public Policies
BJ Lifton: "The Age of Search and Reunion"
Friday April 30 at 2:45pm
Sponsor:Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
Venue: MIT
City: Cambridge, MA
Conference information: Register at
http://web.me.com/shaslang/ASAC_2010_Conference/Welcome.html
May 2010
Addiction and the Adoption Triad
May 14 from 9:30am-4:00pm
BJ Lifton: “Addicted to Adoption”
11:30-12pm
Sponsor:Stuyvesant Square Chemical Dependency Programs
Venue: Beth Israel Medical Center
The New Podell Auditorium, Bernstein Pavilion
Between 15th and 16th street between 1st and 2nd Avenue
City: New York , NY 10003
September 2010
Podcasts & Interviews
March 2009
Listen to the University of Michigan Press podcast with BJ Lifton about the new release of Lost & Found: The Adoption Experience
Read more at University of Michigan Press site
January 2007
Listen to an interview with BJ Lifton about Twice Born
courtesy of Deborah Harper, Psychjourney Podcasts
