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Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture and Politics in the Diaspora

Lecture | February 5 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor), Conference Room, 6F

Speaker: Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde, Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies, UC Davis

Sponsors: Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies

In this new book, Prof. Valverde (Ph.D., UC Berkeley) draws on personal interviews and almost two decades of research to show the complex relationship between Vietnamese in the diaspora and those back in Viet Nam. Arguing that Vietnamese immigrant lives are inherently transnational, she shows how their acts form virtual communities via the Internet, organize social movements, exchange music and create art, find political representation, and even dissent.

Event Contact: cseas@berkeley.edu, 510-642-3609