Charting an interdisciplinary field of critical refugee study, Yen Le Espiritu re-conceptualizes "the refugee" as a site of social and political critique. While most writings on the Vietnam War mourn American losses, the costs borne by the Vietnamese – the war witnesses, survivors and their families, both in Vietnam and in the Diaspora - linger long after the supposed ending of the war. Against the dominant remembering of the Fall of Saigon in April 1975, when does war end and who gets to decide?
4:00 pm Class of 1947 Room / HBL
YEN LE ESPIRITU, University of California at San Diego
Sponsored by Asian & Asian American Studies Institute / CLAS, Department of Sociology, English Department, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Research Foundation, Institute for Africana Studies, El Instituto, and the Honors Program at UCONN-Storrs
For more information, contact: Ms. Fe Delos-Santos at fe.delos-santos@uconn.edu