DVAN ÁCCENTED | Navigating Transcultural Identity: The Vietnamese German Experience
WELCOME
DVAN is excited to host this episode of ÁCCENTED, “Navigating Transcultural Identity: The Vietnamese German Experience,” featuring writer Khue Pham and runner/writer Thi Minh Huyen Nguyen in conversation with hosts Viet Thanh Nguyen, pulitzer-prize winning author, and Philip Nguyen, Vietnamese-American studies scholar.
DETAILS
Thursday, November 21, 2024 | 6:00 PM PST
Event is FREE | Virtual | All ticket holders will receive a special Zoom webinar invitation 24 hours prior to the show. One ticket per person, per email.
ABOUT THE GUESTS
Khuê Phạm is an award-winning Vietnamese-German journalist and writer. A graduate of the London School of Economics, she worked for The Guardian and NPR’s Berlin bureau before becoming an editor at the weekly Die Zeit. In 2012, she co-wrote “Wir neuen Deutschen”, a non-fiction book about second-generation immigrants in Germany. Her debut novel “Brothers and Ghosts” was adapted to the stage as “Kim” and will be published this year in Britain, Australia and the US. She’s a founding member of PEN Berlin and part of this year’s jury for the International Literature Prize of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. More at khuepham.de/english
Thị Minh Huyền Nguyễn (she/her) is a writer, designer and runner working at the intersections of fashion, art, culture and sports. She is the founder of @joyruncollective. Her work appears in Vogue Germany, Daddy Magazine and Konfekt Magazine. She was part of the mediation team of the 12th Berlin Biennale and has been a contributing editor for diacritics.
ABOUT THE HOSTS
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and numerous other awards. His most recent publication is A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial. His other books are the sequel to The Sympathizer, The Committed; a short story collection, The Refugees; Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction); and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He has also published Chicken of the Sea, a children’s book written in collaboration with his son, Ellison. He is a University Professor at the University of Southern California. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, he is also the editor of The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, and the forthcoming children’s book Simone illustrated by Minnie Phan
PHILIP NGUYEN is the emcee for ÁCCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora presented by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN). He teaches Asian American Studies in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, San Jose State University, and is the Executive Director for the Vietnamese American Roundtable, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in California’s South Bay Area. Philip has formerly served as the President of the Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations (UNAVSA) and as the Co-Chair of the Young Vietnamese Americans (YVA) Committee for PIVOT – The Progressive Vietnamese American Organization.
DVAN ÁCCENTED | Navigating Transcultural Identity: The Vietnamese German Experience
