| 9:00 - 9:45 am |
Coffee and Registration |
| 9:45 - 10:00 am |
Opening Remarks: Fiona I.B. Ngô, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 10:00 - 11:30 am |
PANEL 1: Evidence, Experience, Ethnography
- Ayako Sahara, University of California San Diego, "Displacement by War: South Vietnamese Experiences of Refugee Camps"
- Sangmi Lee, Arizona State University, "Marriage Migration and the Assimilation Agenda among the Hmong people in the U.S."
- Kevin Lam, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "Vietnamese American Gang Subculture and Racialized Schooling in Southern California"
- Tanachai Mark Padoongpatt, University of Southern California, Chair
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| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm |
LUNCH |
| 12:30 - 2:00 pm |
PANEL 2: Transnational America
- Tanachai Mark Padoongpatt, University of Southern California, "Off the Menu: Thai Food and Community in Los Angeles, 1960s-present"
- Lan Dong, University of Illinois, Springfield, "Girlhood, Refugee, and Food: Bich Minh Nguyen's Stealing Buddha's Dinner"
- Mimi Thu Khúc, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Engaging Buddhism and the New Age: Thich Nhat Hanh and Vietnamese American Religious Life"
- Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Southern California, Chair
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| 2:15 - 3:45 pm |
PANEL 3: Circuits of Culture: Artwork, Commodities, and Images
- Kieu Linh Valverde, University of California, Davis, “Whose War is it Anyway: The Việt Kiều Struggle for Political and Cultural Representation in the Case of Four Exhibits – “Ho Chi Minh,” “What’s Going On?: California and the Vietnam Era,” “Áo Dài: A modern Design Coming of Age,” and “Unfinishing Story: A Tribute to My Mothers”
- Long Thanh Bui, University of California, San Diego, “Vietnamese Idol and the Ambivalence of Cultural Futures"
- Lan Duong, University of California, Riverside, "Ho Chi Minh City and Subjects in Transit: Tropes of Travel in Vietnamese and Vietnamese Diasporic Films"
- Mariam Beevi Lam, University of California, Riverside, Chair
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| 4:00 - 4:45 pm |
Artist Presentation: Julie Thi
Underhill
"Luminous Elegies: Chǎm Family Documentary in Phước Lập, Việt Nam"
Introduced by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut, Storrs |
| 5:00 - 6:30 pm |
Keynote: Linda Võ
"Vietnamese America on My Mind: Public Imaginations and Aberrations"
Introduced by Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 6:30 - 8:00 pm |
DINNER (on your own) |
| 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
Screening: New Year Baby
Introduced by Mimi Nguyen,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 9:30 - 9:45 am |
Coffee and Registration |
| 9:45 - 10:00 am |
Award of Distinction given to Anne Frank
Presented by Mariam Beevi Lam, University of California, Riverside |
| 10:00 - 11:30 am |
PANEL 4: Imagining the Homeland
- Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut, Storrs, "Constituting Cambodia America: Virtual Memorials and Genocidal Remembrance"
- Quan Tue Tran, Yale University, "Encountering 'Homeland': Narratives of Return in Diasporic Vietnamese Documentary Films"
- Thang Dao, University of Southern California, "Reimagining Exile as a Space of Freedom: Vietnamese Exile Communities and the Nation-state"
- Sompathana Phitsanoukanh, Washington State University, "In the Age of Cultural Production: A Closer Reading of Laos through Christopher Kremmer's Bamboo Place"
- Minh-Ha Pham, New York University, Chair
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| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm |
LUNCH |
| 12:30 - 2:00 pm |
ROUNDTABLE
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| 2:15 - 3:45 pm |
PANEL 5: Diasporic Figures of War
- Ly Chong Thong Jalao, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Ideology and Cosmology in the Hmong Diaspora: Terrorism and the Case of General Vang Pao"
- Ma Vang, University of California, San Diego, "The Refugee Soldier Figure: 'Friend' and 'Terrorist' in the Case of General Vang Pao"
- Diem-My Bui, University of Illinois, Chicago, "Reporting on Madame Nhu in the Vietnam War: Representations of the Gendered Other"
- Soo Ah Kwon, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, Chair
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| 4:00 - 4:45 pm |
Artist Presentation: Kao Kalia Yang
"When Life Turns into Literature: the Hmong Refugee Experience"
Introduced by Ma Vang, University of California, San Diego |
| 5:00 - 6:30 pm |
Keynote: Khatharya Um
"Exiled Memory: History, Identity and Remembering in the Southeast Asian Diaspora"
Introduced by Mimi Nguyen,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 6:30 - 7:30 pm |
Reception |
