Organizer: UC Irvine Libraries’ Orange County and Southeast Asian Archives Center

Type/Location: Hybrid / Irvine, CA

Description:

Join UC Irvine Libraries’ Orange County and Southeast Asian Archives Center for a half-day exhibit symposium. Professor Nam C. Kim will share how his family’s refugee journey from Vietnam through Guam informs his current anthropological research on Operation New Life. Arielle Taitano Lowe will share a poem about her CHamoru grandfather’s experiences during the Vietnam War. Jana K. Lipman and Trần Hoài Bắc will discuss the Vietnamese repatriate memoir they translated, Ship of Fate by Trần Đình Trụ.

About the Speakers:

• Nam C. Kim is Professor of Anthropology at University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Arielle Taitano Lowe is a Chamorrita poet and author of Ocean Mother

• Jana K. Lipman is Professor of History at Tulane University

• Trần Hoài Bắc teaches Vietnamese and is a co-translator of Ship of Fate: Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate

Registration:

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