MY NAME IS MIMOSA - Hawaii Circuit
Tue, Mar 03
|University of Hawaii at Manoa
One adoptee's extraordinary journey through archives, serendipity, and fifty years of missing pieces to finally reconstruct her own origin story.
Time & Location
Mar 03, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2500 Campus Rd, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
About the event
MY NAME IS MIMOSA / ARRIVED: Tracing the Adoption Journey Through Archives
Devaki Murch never had a hospital bracelet or a baby book. She had newspaper headlines, news broadcast recordings, and pieces of the C-5A Galaxy plane that crashed with her inside on April 4, 1975.
Then the synchronicities began.
A numbered print titled Babies in Cardboard Boxes. A fat file labeled "Henry's Lists" — and a programmer named Henry who appeared fifty years later. Her own name on passenger manifests. Hand annotations recording the intimate details of her first days of life. Each arrival felt less like chance and more like a summons, as if the archives themselves were choosing their caretaker.
The file told her story before she was her.
MY NAME IS MIMOSA / ARRIVED traces that journey — through the original letters, cables, intake forms, and correspondence that made one adoption possible and permanent. What did the…