What are the human effects of U.S. war and foreign policy in Southeast Asia? How do refugees themselves continue to make sense of war, empire and national belonging? 

This webinar brings together three leading scholars of “critical refugee studies” to explore these questions and more as we look at a range of humanitarian efforts, refugee and migration policies, as well as artistic/cultural practices and performances that have formed in the wake of U.S. wars in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Three experts on critical refugee studies – Yen Le Espiritu of UC San Diego, Cathy Schlund-Vials of University of Texas, Austin, and Ma Vang of UC Merced)—will share their scholarly, curatorial, and community work focused on Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Hmong communities in the U.S. and beyond to reveal how critical refugee studies contributes unique ways of understanding issues of migration, movement, and memory-work in our world today. 

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