I had the pleasure of taking part in such an innovative and thoughtful roundtable, “Disorienting the Vietnam War: Feminist and Queer Perspectives on the 50th Anniversary,” at the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Conference in Boston this past weekend. The session brought together early career scholars and graduate students across disciplines. I spoke briefly about the notoriously opaque late French-Vietnamese writer Linda Lê, her politics of non-alignment and the stakes of her metaliterary project known as littérature déplacée. It was my first AAAS and I was so happy to reunite with friends and colleagues and grateful to find intellectual community. Huge thanks to my UC Berkeley colleague in Ethnic Studies, David Pham, for bringing us all together!
Pictured above, left to right: Trung Nguyen (Asst. Prof., SJSU), Ly Nguyen (Asst. Prof., Augsburg University), Khoi Nguyen (PhD Candidate, UMN Twin Cities), James Huynh (Asst. Prof., UMich), David Pham (PhD Candidate, UCB), Sydney Van To (PhD Candidate, UCB), Minh Huynh Vu (PhD Student, Yale), Alan T. Yeh (yours truly)
