Archiving Power: Vietnamese Refugee Studies and the Politics of Memory

Join CSREA for “Archiving Power: Vietnamese Refugee Studies and the Politics of Memory,” a panel discussion which explores the contested meanings of ‘refugee’—as a geopolitical label of national non-belonging; as familial stories of injustice, humanity, and survival (which both haunt and unite); and as contemporary plight in need of political and social action. The panel will feature Quan Tran (Lecturer in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and American Studies, Yale University), Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles), Mimi Thi Nguyen (Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and be moderated by organizer Cindy Nguyen (Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities in the Department of History and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University). Registration is required.