VIET’S APPEARANCES

Catch Viet at one of these appearances in the coming months and say hello! He will be presenting on his academic work or, at the literary events, reading from and talking about his most recent books: the novel The Sympathizer (2015), the cultural history Nothing Ever Dies (2016), the short story collection The Refugees (2017), and the children’s book Chicken of the Sea (2019).

UPCOMING APPEARANCES

*Many upcoming events have been cancelled or postponed due to safety precautions for COVID-19.

December 5, 2020
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USC PAM: Southeast Asian Refugee Narratives

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December 9, 2020
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Monuments Project: Expanding the American Story

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PAST APPEARANCES

2020

November 19, 2020

Portland Book Festival, Caste: Isabel Wilkerson and Viet Thanh Nguyen

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November 11, 2020
Looking Like the Enemy: Race and the Legacy of the Vietnam War

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November 7, 2020

Writer’s Digest Conference Keynote

Online Event.


November 1, 2020
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Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

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October 24, 2020
Viet Book Fest

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October 16, 2020
An Online Panel on Writing in the Time of COVID-19: Race, Dystopia, and the Humanities in/of Crisis

Online Event.


October 7, 2020

Hanway Lecture in Global Studies

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October 3, 2020

Together Towards Tomorrow, NCVAA

Online Event


October 1, 2020

Turn the Page: The American Dream: Whose Myth? Whose Reality?

Online Event


August 27, 2020
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Viet Thanh Nguyen, CLSC Author, The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

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August 27, 2020
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ACCENTED | Nobody Ever Dies featuring Thao & The Get Down Stay Down

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July 24, 2020
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ACCENTED | Art, Activism, and Advocacy with PIVOT and UNAVSA

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July 17, 2020; 7:30PM PDT
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ACCENTED | Vietnamese Representation On Screen and Behind the Scenes

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July 17, 2020; 5:00PM PDT
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Lit Up Episode 5: Getting Personal

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June 26, 2020
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ACCENTED | Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation with Phuc Tran

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JUNE 7, 2020; 2PM PST
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“Coming to America” with the Yiddish Book Center

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May 26, 2020; 6:30PM PST
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Journey From The Fall Q&A w/ Ham Tran

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MAY 16, 2020; 12PM PST
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*Event cancelled due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Turn the Page!

Children’s Fairyland
699 Bellevue Ave, Oakland, CA 9461


MAY 16, 2020; 6PM PST
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*Event postponed due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Conversations@PAM: Southeast Asian Refugee Narratives

USC Pacific Asia Museum
46 N Los Robles Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101


May 16, 2020; 2PM PST
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At Home with Literati: Story Time! With Viet Thanh Nguyen and Thi Bui

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May 13, 2020; 5PM PST
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Narrating the Nightmare: (Re)Imagining a Post-COVID World

Online Event


MAY 13, 2020; TIME TBC
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*Event postponed due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Viet Thanh Nguyen with Aperture at BAM

Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn, NY


MAY 9, 2020; TIME TBC
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*Event postponed due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Keynote for Language and Migration: Experience and Memory Conference

Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544


May 8, 2020; 7PM EDT
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Virtual Event: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai with Viet Thanh Nguyen

Harvard Bookstore
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May 8, 2020; 5PM PST
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Week 1: The State of Asian America Today 

Rise Asian Pacific America
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MAY 8, 2020; TIME TBC
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*Event cancelled due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Viet Thanh Nguyen with The Racial Imaginary Institute and the Zolberg Institute

CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016


May 5, 2020; 12PM PST
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Reddit AMA in conjunction with the Asian Americans documentary

Reddit
Online Event


May 2, 2020; 7PM PST
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Coming Together When Things Fall Apart: Giving Voice to Emotional Truth in our Time

Bay Area Book Festival
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MAY 2, 2020; 5PM PST
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*Event postponed due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Vietnamese Writers of the Diaspora in Seattle with Viet Thanh Nguyen

Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101


MAY 1, 2020
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*Event postponed due to safety precautions for COVID-19

National Endowment of Humanities Seminar “What’s in a Fact?”;

University of Puget Sound
1500 N Warner St, Tacoma, WA 98416


April 30, 2020; 5pm PST to 6pm
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Asian Americans Digital Town Hall

Center for Asian American Media
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APRIL 29, 2020; 1:00-2:30PM PST
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*Event postponed due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Memory, History, and Vietnam

St Mary’s College of California
De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
1928 St. Marys Road, Moraga, CA 94575


APRIL 19, 2020; TIME TBC
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*Event postponed due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90007


APRIL 18, 2020; TIME TBC
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*Event cancelled due to safety precautions for COVID-19

San Mateo Public Library Foundation 9th Annual Author’s Gala “An Evening with Viet Nguyen”

Peninsula Golf & Country Club
701 Madera Dr, San Mateo, CA


APRIL 18, 2020; TIME TBC
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*Event postponed due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Global Educators Conference

San Diego, CA


APRIL 14, 2020; TIME TBC
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*Event cancelled due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Viet Thanh Nguyen at UIC

University of Illinois at Chicago
1200 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60607


APRIL 13, 2020; TIME TBC
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*Event cancelled due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Viet Thanh Nguyen at Amazon

Amazon
Seattle, WA


APRIL 4, 2020; TIME TBC
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*Event postponed due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Viet Thanh Nguyen at the Carnegie Museum of Art

Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213


APRIL 3, 2020; TIME TBC
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*Event cancelled due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Muse and Marketplace/Grub Street Keynote by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Boston, MA


APRIL 2, 2020; TIME TBC
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*Event postponed due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Viet Thanh Nguyen at Yale University

Yale University
New Haven, CT


APRIL 1, 2020; TIME TBC
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*Event cancelled due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Writers at Rutgers Reading Series with Viet Thanh Nguyen

Rutgers University
Rutgers Student Center Multipurpose Room
New Brunswick, NJ


March 31, 2020; TIME TBC
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*Event cancelled due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Hanway Lecture in Global Studies with Viet Thanh Nguyen

Loyola University Maryland
McGuire Hall
4501 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD


March 27, 2020; TIME TBC
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*Event postponed due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Washington Refugee Summit

Highline College
2400 South 240th Street, Des Moines, WA 98198


March 26, 2020; TIME TBC
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*Event cancelled due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Viet Thanh Nguyen interviews Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s for The Mountains Sing 

Skylight Books
1818 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027


March 23, 2020; TIME TBC
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*Event cancelled due to safety precautions for COVID-19

Inaugural Boudreaux Great Writer Lecture

Tulane University
New Orleans, LA

March 8, 2020; 4PM PST
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Keynote at CALIBA Event, Spring Workshop San Diego/CA Voices Speed Dating

330 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101
Shiley Special Events Suite (9th Floor)


March 7, 2020
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Japanese American National Museum Keynote

Japanese American National Museum


March 3, 2020; 7PM PST
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Opening of the DVAN Center in the College of Ethnic Studies with Viet Thanh Nguyen 

San Francisco State University


February 22, 2020; 8:30AM PSTAdd to Calendar 

Nishida Distinguished Lecture presents Việt Thanh Nguyễn at SEASON

UCLA


February 19, 2020; 7PM PST
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ALOUD: Gish Jen In conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen

Central Library


February 7, 2020; 7 PM EST
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Asian American Writers Workshop and Kundiman for Chicken of the Sea

New York


February 6, 2020
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AALDEF 2020 Justice in Action Award

New York City


February 4, 2020
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Lecture at Claremont McKenna

Claremont, CA


January 29, 2020; 3:15PM CET
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Honorary Doctoral Lecture at Uppsala University

Uppsala, Sweden


January 27, 2020; 7PM CET
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Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation with Andres Norman

School of Business Aulan


January 19, 2020; 3PM PST
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Oakland Asian Cultural Center with Eastwind Books of Berkeley in Oakland for Chicken of the Sea

388 Ninth St. Suite 290 Oakland, CA


January 18, 2020; 7:30 PM PST
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826 Valencia in San Francisco for Chicken of the Sea

826 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA


January 18, 2020; 2 PM PST
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Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park for Chicken of the Sea

1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA


January 11, 2020; 2PM PST
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Chicken of the Sea Event with Viet Thanh Nguyen and Ellison Nguyen

Elliot Bay Books; Seattle, Washington


January 10, 2020; 8PM PST
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Benefit for the Humanities for MLA Convention

Sheraton Grand Seattle; Seattle Washington


January 10, 2020; 10:30 AM PST
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Presidential Plenary for MLA: What Does it Mean to Be Human?

Washington State Convention Center, Seattle


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