Events
events
A comprehensive overview of events Viet will be participating in, from literary panels to commencement speeches. Many of these events are open to the public!
Please email Kevin Mills of The Tuesday Agency to inquire about Viet to talk at your event.
Upcoming Events
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Past Events
2026 Rutgers Living History Society Annual Meeting
The Rutgers Living History Society, affiliated with the Rutgers Oral History Archives, is an honor society established to recognize those who participate in or loyally support the practice of oral history at Rutgers University. We cordially invite you to: The 21st Rutgers Living History Society Annual Meeting Stephen E. Ambrose Oral History Award Ceremony 2026 Ambrose […]
Hisham Matar & Viet Thanh Nguyen Discuss To Save and To Destroy & My Friends
BPL Presents is excited to welcome two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, Viet Thanh Nguyen & Hisham Matar, who discuss their latest works—To Save and To Destroy and My Friends—while connecting over their most urgent aesthetic & social questions and their most ardent literary pursuits. One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre […]
ASIAN AMERICANS & PALESTINE | A Conversation Between Viet Thanh Nguyen and Martin Manalansan
A Conversation between Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen and Association for Asian American Studies President Martin ManalansanModerated by Professors Noura Erakat (RU-NB, Africana & Criminal Justice) & Sylvia Chan-Malik (RU-NB, American Studies & WGSS)Opening Remarks from Professor Maya Mikdashi (RU-NB, WGSS & MES) Wednesday, April 297:30-9:00 pmRuth Dill Johnson Crockett (RDJC) Conference Room162 Ryders […]
ÁCCENTED | Letters & Lullabies: Diasporic Filipina Poets
Join DVAN for our 54rd episode of ÁCCENTED, featuring Barbara Jane Reyes and Karen Llagas in conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen and Philip Nguyen! EVENT DETAILS Thursday, March 19, 2026 • 6:00 PM PT / 9:00 PM ET This event is FREE. Please register in advance to receive a link to join the virtual conversation. ABOUT THE GUESTS Barbara Jane […]
Watermelon Books: Literature During Genocide
An Inaugural Reading & Conversation at Watermelon Books LA with Award-Winning Novelists Randa Jarrar & Nancy Kricorian Watermelon Books LA presents its first public event — a powerful evening of literature, solidarity, and shared histories of diaspora and genocide connecting Palestinian and Armenian experiences. As survivors of ethnic cleansing and genocide, Armenian and Palestinian communities […]
Stanford Creative Writing Program | Lane Lecture Series: A Reading with Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce the next event in the Lane Lecture Series: A Reading with Viet Thanh Nguyen. This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Registration is encouraged but not required. Register here ____ Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among many other awards, and was […]
ÁCCENTED | Solidarity in Diaspora: From Vietnam to Palestine
Join DVAN for our 53rd episode of ÁCCENTED, featuring Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi and Cathy Linh Che in conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen! EVENT DETAILS Thursday, February 19, 2026 • 6:00 PM PT / 9:00 PM ET This event is FREE. Please register in advance to receive a link to join the virtual conversation. ABOUT THE GUESTS Evyn Lê Espiritu […]
Northern Arizona University | Cline Lecture Series
This spring marks 42 years for the Cline Lecture Series. The Cline Community Lecture in the Humanities, established and endowed by Platt Cline, Flagstaff and NAU Historian and newspaper editor, bring speakers of international stature to Flagstaff. Previous Cline Lecturers include Luis Urrea, Juan Felipe Herrera, Rebecca Solnit, Sherman Alexie, Sarah Vowell, and T.C. Boyle. […]
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