This free hybrid half-day symposium on Operation New Life will feature research talks by Nam C. Kim, Jana K. Lipman, and Trần Hoài Bắc.

Symposium schedule:

•  1:15 – 2:45 p.m.: Nam C. Kim Talk (Orange County and Southeast Asian Archive)
• 2:45 – 4:00 p.m.: Reception and Exhibit Viewing (Orange County and Southeast Asian Archive)
• 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.: Jana K. Lipman and Trần Hoài Bắc Talk (Orange County and Southeast Asian Archive)

Nam C. Kim, a professor of anthropology at University of Wisconsin–Madison, will share how his family’s refugee journey from Vietnam through Guam informs his current anthropological research related to Operation New Life.

Jana K. Lipman, a professor of history at Tulane University, and Trần Hoài Bắc, who teaches Vietnamese, will discuss the Vietnamese repatriate memoir they translated, Ship of Fate by Trần Đình Trụ.

This event will be hosted in-person, but it will also be streamed virtually through Zoom.

Sponsor(s): Center for Southeast Asian Studies