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Title: “SEA Legacies: Commemorating 40 Years of Southeast Asian Diasporas”
The goals of the symposium are to commemorate the formation of Southeast Asian diasporic communities in the US over the past 40 years and to educate students and the community about Southeast Asian American heritages, experiences, and histories.
Events in no particular order:
A. Keynote: Dr. Viet Nguyen, Departments of English and American Studies and Ethnicity, USC
B. Panel: Vietnamese American Authors: Telling Diasporic Stories from Vietnam to the US
C. Panel: Southeast Asian Experiences
D. Panel: The Fall of Saigon: Political Background and Military Context
E. Roundtable: Alumni Experiences: Intergenerational Dialogue
F. Panel: CBOs & JOBs: Get to Know Local Community Organizations and Resources
G. Roundtable: Let’s Get Engaged! Students Share Opportunities for Campus and Community Involvement and Service.)
H. Panel: Preserving and Sharing Our Stories: The Role of Southeast Asian Oral History Projects and Archives
I. Digital Photo Exhibit: Vietnamese Americans: A Self-Portrait of a People
J. Exhibit: Letters from Vietnam
K. Film Series: Visual Stories of Diaspora: An Exploration of Southeast Asian History and Life through Films
L. Panel: Beyond the Fall of Saigon: Communism as Discourse in National, Community, and Identity Formations in the US and Vietnam
M. Panel: Global Perspectives on the Vietnam War
N. Panel: National Resource Center for Asian Languages and Vietnamese Literacy Development for Dual Language Immersion
O. Closing Performances: Southeast Asian American Expression and Performance
The SEA Legacies Symposium is generously sponsored by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and by Dr. Craig K. Ihara.
The SEA Legacies Symposium is organized by faculty, students, and staff of Asian American Studies, Modern Languages and Literatures, History, American Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Communications, Education, the HSS Office of Development, the CSUF Office of State and Community Relations, the Vietnamese Students Association, the Cambodian Students Association, and the Asian Pacific American Resource Center, and in collaboration with community partners.
Please contact Dr. Eliza Noh at [email protected] for more information.
Please don’t forget to share the eventbrite RSVP link with the campus and external community. All attendees, including speakers and yourselves, should register by Feb. 20th so that we can take a headcount for food:
As a South East Asian American, one of the strangest things I’ve had to deal with is balancing myself between being “white” and being “asian”. I was born in America and was not raised within a large Laos/Cambodian community. Essentially, I was too whitewashed to hang out with the Asians who grew up with a strong Asian background. I barely know my own home languages. My lack of Asian culture as well as my comfort in American culture has led many to perceive me as a “non-asian”.
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Art for @our-omens Zine. - Culture theme
I’m a city girl so I chose something I am more familiar with: side-walk coffee! And they are wearing something called Five-pieces Dress (different from Ao Dai). They’re smoking rustic tobacco
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