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  The Phi Beta Kappa Society presents the Sidney Hook Memorial Award to Viet Thanh Nguyen

  The Phi Beta Kappa Society has named Viet Thanh Nguyen as the recipient of its Sidney Hook Memorial Award. Phi Beta Kappa presented the award to Nguyen on August 3rd at the 46th Triennial Council of the Society.  The award, established in 1991 in memory of the distinguished American philosopher and Phi Beta Kappa member Sidney Hook (1902–1989), recognizes national distinction… (read more)

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  Special Event | Language and Migration: Experience and Memory

  Viet Thanh Nguyen will be giving a keynote lecture for the Language and Migration symposium at Princeton University. Language is a vital, but underexplored, factor in the lives of migrants, immigrants and refugees. It has a direct impact on the experiences and choices of individuals displaced by war, terror, or natural disasters and the decisions made by agents who provide… (read more)

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  ACCENTEDiRL: “Tales from the Margins”

  Viet Thanh Nguyen hosts ACCENTEDirl for DVAN with featuring authors from various Southeast Asian backgrounds. The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) is collaborating with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American (APA) Center to host ACCENTEDiRL: Dialogues in Diaspora. This Spring 2021, ACCENTEDiRL will feature authors, artists, poets, and cultural producers across the Southeast Asian diaspora in a series… (read more)