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CANCELLED – Brown Bag Discussion w/Thy Phu

Apr 17, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

**Unfortunately Thy Phu’s talk and brown bag have been cancelled due to the campus-wide response to the COVID-19 outbreak. We hope to reschedule this event for sometime during the 2020-21 academic year. Sorry, folks! Wash your hands, stay healthy!

Please join us for a special brown bag discussion hosted by Thy Phu (English, Western University) at the Center for 21st Century Studies on Friday at noon.

The brown bag discussion will center around a chapter from Phu’s upcoming book Warring Visions of Vietnam, titled “Symbols of Solidarity: Revolutionary Vietnamese Women in Vietnam and Beyond” (available below). During the war in Vietnam and well after its end, the symbol of the revolutionary Vietnamese woman circulated both within the divided nation and internationally. What were the contexts for the emergence of this symbol and what cultural work did its widespread circulation do? This chapter takes up these questions by considering how deployment of this symbol mediated the complex relationship between women’s emancipation and national liberation and laid claim to competing notions of solidarity.

Thy Phu is Professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University in Canada, where she teaches cultural studies and American literature. She is co-author of Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture (Temple University Press, 2012) and co-editor of Feeling Photography (Duke University Press, 2014). Her most recent book, Warring Visions of Vietnam, is under contract at Duke University Press. Currently, she serves as Principal Investigator on The Family Camera Network, a collaborative project that historicizes domestic images in the contexts of mobility, displacement, and diaspora.

Be sure to join us later on Friday for Phu’s talk, “Warring Visions: Photography and the Vietnam Conflict” at 3:30 in Curtin Hall 175.

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Date:
Apr 17, 2020
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Venue

Curtin 939
3243 N Downer Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53211 United States
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