Speaker: Dr. Rachel Nolan (Assistant Professor of International History, Boston University) Title of the (virtual) lecture: "International Adoptions in Guatemala during the Armed Conflict." Description of the talk: Around the turn of the millennium, tiny Guatemala became the world's number-two "sender" country in the global adoption market, outnumbered only by China. In this talk, Dr. Rachel Nolan grounds this history of transnational adoptions in a Guatemala's history of war and the scorched-earth policies of the early 1980s.