DVAN | Still We Rise: 50 Years After the Vietnam War

“Still We Rise: 50 Years After the Vietnam War” is an important event scheduled for April 26, 2025 at the prestigious Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco. Our program consists of three acts: poetry readings by National Youth Poet Laureate Alexandra Huynh, Santa Clara County Youth Poet Laureate Thy Hope Luong, award-winning spoken word artist Bao Phi, and nationally acclaimed poet Paul Tran; a panel discussion moderated by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and Guggenheim Fellow An-My Lê; and a conversation moderated by Viet Thanh Nguyen and the aforementioned poets, with songs from Indie Rock sensation Thao Nguyen.

About Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN):

We envision a world where the diversity, complexities, and nuances of the Vietnamese diaspora are understood and celebrated; and in which Vietnamese diasporic stories and artists can empower, heal, and connect individuals and communities. To implement our vision, we curate and create programs, collaborations, and publications for Vietnamese diasporic artists, their allies, and their audiences.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen is a writer, co-founder of DVAN, and professor at the University of Southern California. His debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and numerous other awards. His other books include: Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016), The Refugees (2017), The Committed (2021), and A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial (2023).

An-My Lê

An-My Lê is an internationally renowned photographer primarily based in New York. Her work often addresses the impact of war on culture and on the environment. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award. Lê is currently the Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor in the Arts at Bard College, New York.

Lien-Hang T. Nguyen headshot

Moderator

Lien-Hang T. Nguyen is the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and co-founder of Global Vietnam Studies at Columbia University. Author of Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam and General Editor of The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, 3 vols., she is currently working on a comprehensive history of the 1968 Tet Offensive. Professor Nguyen received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University.

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Date

May 04 2025
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Time

6:00 pm - 9:15 pm

Cost

$56

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