Laura Briggs- RITM Distinguished Speaker Series

Event time: 
Thursday, October 27, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Humanities Quadrangle (HQ), L01 See map
320 York Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Professor Briggs is an expert on U.S. and international child welfare policy and on transnational and transracial adoption. Briggs’ most recent book, Taking Children: A History of American Terror (University of California Press, 2020), examines the 400-year-old history of the United States’ use of taking children from marginalized communities—from the taking of Black and Native children during America’s founding to the Donald Trump’s policy of family separation for Central American migrants and asylum seekers at the U.S./Mexico border—as a violent tool for political ends.

Laura Briggs