Unless otherwise noted, all events will take place in the U.C. Riverside Extension Center Rooms D and E

Day One:  Tuesday, April 19, 2005

8:-8:20am: Registration and Breakfast:  Name Tags, Programs, Maps, Brochures

8:20-8:30am: Opening Remarks- Fiona Ngo, University of Oregon; Mariam Lam, University of California, Riverside; and Hendrik Maier, Director of SEATRiP

8:30-9:45am:  Panel One: Of War and Memory

Living Legacies of the Vietnam War: Nguyen v. I.N.S. and Amerasian Claims to U.S. Citizenship, Diana H. Yoon, Institute for Law and Society, New York University
 
Soldier Boys: The Image of the American Soldier in Vietnamese and American Films, 1968-2004, Shawn Smolen-Morton, Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Memory and Alternative Discourse as a Prelude to the Devastation of the Vietnam War, Vanessa Raney, City College of San Francisco

Understanding and Teaching the Literature of the Vietnam War, German E. Vargas, Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
 
Discussant:  Katherine Kinney, English/Film&Visual Cultures, UC Riverside

9:50-11:05am:  Panel Two: Returning to Vietnam in Literal and Symbolic Journeys

Four Hours in Son My: Visiting a Site of Massacre and Healing, Julia Bleakney, English/Liberal Arts, Saddleback College

Commodity of War: The Creation of a National Consciousness of Inferiority in Andrew X. Pham's Catfish and Mandala, Tina Powell, English, Florida State University

Phuong's Story: Graham Greene's The Quiet American Revisited, Andrew Shin, English, California State University, Los Angeles

Putting Ghosts to Rest, Charles Waugh, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Discussant:  Julia Bleakney, Saddleback College

11:10-12:25pm:  Panel Three:  Concurrent Work in Developing Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American Studies

Nation, Citizenship, and Identity: Re-Imagining Hmong Transnationalism in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ma Vang, Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon

Unfinished Business: Centering the College Opportunities and Access of Mien American Students, Gigi Gomez, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA

The Trans[n/l]ational Impulse: The Response of Hmong (American) Literature to War and Diaspora, Mitchell P. Ogden, English, University of Minnesota

Discussant:  Deborah Wong, Music/Southeast Asian Studies, UC Riverside

12:25-1:30pm:  Lunch (On-site Catering)

1:30-2:30pm:  Keynote Address:  Professor Yen Le Espiritu, UC San Diego

2:35-3:50pm: Panel Four:  Re-Assessing the State of Viet Nam

Beyond “Ecocide”: Assessing Environmental Dimensions of the “American War” in Viet Nam, David A. Biggs, History, University of California, Riverside

The Scientific Debates over the Effects of Agent Orange, Michitake Aso, History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Language Policies and the Reality of Bilingual Education for Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam, Quang Can Dai, East-West Center, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Sister Traders and Wandering Ghosts: Postwar Memory and Late Socialist Conflict in a Southern Vietnamese Marketplace, Ann Marie Leshkowich, Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross

Discussant:  George Dutton, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA

3:55-5:10pm: Panel Five:  Little Saigon, Past, Present and Future

The Emergence of Little Saigon, Gina Masequesmay, Asian American Studies, California State University, NorthridgePlace and Place-Making in Little Saigon, Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Comparative North American Studies, Macalester College

The Present Political Climate and Future Potentials of Little Saigon, Nhu-Ngoc Ong, Political Science, University of California, Irvine

Discussant:  Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA

5:15-6:30pm: Panel Six:  New Theories and Practice in Literature and the Visual Arts

Vietnamese American Literature: Trauma, Hybridity, and Containment, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Asian American Studies, San Francisco State University

Time after Time: Vietnamese American Visual Artists, Countermemory and the Politics of Ambivalence, Viet Le, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

Exhibiting War, Reconciling Pasts: Photography and the Politics of Transnational Memory Making in Contemporary Vietnam, Christina Schwenkel, Introduction to the Humanities Program, Stanford University

Giac Mong Dem He and the “Dream” of Intersubjective Negotiation, Khai Nguyen, Dance, Theater and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley
 
Discussant:  Jodi Kim, Asian American Studies, University of California, Riverside

Dinner 6:30-8:00pm  The Getaway Café (Pub/Restaurant) or on own.
 
8:00-10:30pm:  Readings/Performances/Screenings with the Artists

Master of Ceremonies: Nina Ha, Ohio State University
 
Writers: Aimee Phan, Quang X. Pham, R.S. Carlson, and Bryan Thao Worra

Performance Artists: Lan Tran, Genevieve Erin O'Brien, and Tram Le

Photographic/Art Exhibits: Julie Thi Underhill, Michael Burr, Viet Le, ProjectNgoc, Bryan Thao Worra, Vivian Le Tran

Filmmakers:  Ham Tran and Victor Vu

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Day Two:  Wednesday, April 20, 2005

7:45-8:00am: Registration and Breakfast:  Name Tags, Programs, Maps, Brochures

8:00-9:15am: Panel One:  Identities in Circulation and in Constraint

Losing Their Culture? A Psychological Perspective on the Acculturation of Vietnamese American Young Adults, Que-Lam Huynh, Psychology, UC Riverside; Chi-Ah Chun, Psychology, California State University, Long Beach;  and Angela-Minhtu D. Nguyen, Independent Scholar

To Be or Not to Be Vietnamese: How Vietnamese Language (Re)Learners Negotiate Language into Their Identities, Linda Trinh Pham, Independent Scholar

No Communist Zone Controversy and the Triple Domination, Kieu Linh Valverde, Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis

Bodies of Difference:  Representations of Vietnamese Women in U.S. Travel Discourse, Diem-My Bui, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Discussant:  Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Asian American Studies, San Francisco State University

9:20-10:35am: Panel Two:  New Vietnamese Religions in California and Transnational Contexts

A Religious Vision of the Fall of Saigon: History and Prophecy in Caodaism in California and Vietnam, Janet Hoskins, Anthropology, University of Southern California

Caodai Spiritism:  Teachings and Doctrine of a New Faith of Unity, Hum Dac Bui, M.D., Caodai Faith Church

Hoa Hao Buddhism:  Persecution and Persistence, Mai Nguyen, President of Hoa Hao Buddhism

Searching for Religious Freedom: Interviews in California and Vietnam, Judy Vy-Uyen Cao, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California

Discussant:  Justin McDaniel, Religious Studies, UC Riverside

10:40-11:55am: Panel Three:  Reinventing the Archive, the History, and the Canon

SEAAdoc:  Documenting the Southeast Asian American Experience, Anne Frank, Southeast Asian Archives, University of California, Irvine and  Linda Trinh Võ, Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine

Vietnamese American History Exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution, Franklin Odo, Director of the Asian Pacific American Program, Smithsonian Institution

Ethnography of Literature outside Viet Nam: The Viet Nam Literature Project, Dan Duffy, Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Discussant:  Judy Lee,  Library, University of California, Riverside

Lunch 11:55-12:35pm  (Vietnamese lunches provided by local Sandwich shop)

12:35-1:50pm:  Plenary Session: Looking Back and Moving Forward: The Developments of Vietnamese, Southeast Asian, and Asian Amerian Studies

Professor Mark P. Bradley,History, Northwestern University

Professor Khatharya Um, Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Professor Hien Duc Do, Sociology, San Jose State University

1:55-3:10pm: Panel Four:  Migrations and Transnation: Circuits of Culture between Viet Nam and the Diaspora

Co Gai Tren Song and Gai Nhay: The Highs and Lows of Vietnamese Cinema, Lan Duong, Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine

A Transnational Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Modern Viet Nam, Chuong-Dai Vo, Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego

Competing Images:  Anticommunist Protest in Little Saigon, Thuy T. Vo, Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego, and Cam Nhung Vu, American Studies, University of Southern California

Discussant:  Yen Le Espiritu, University of California, San Diego

3:15-4:30pm: Panel Five/Roundtable:  Political Intimidation of Vietnamese Media: The Saigon USA-VAX Case Study

A Screening and Introduction to the First Vietnamese American Television Show Targeting the Younger Generation and How It Was Forced off the Air, Joseph Trinh, Writer, VAX TV

Lindsey Jiang, Co-Director, Saigon USA

Robert Winn, Co-Director, Saigon USA

Anh Do, Editor, Nguoi Viet Daily News

Jeffrey Brody, Communications and Asian American Studies Program Council, California State University, Fullerton

4:35-5:50pm: Panel Six:  Transforming Vietnamese American Communities

Refuge in the Bayou City: Reconstructing a Southern Vietnamese Identity and Community in Houston, Roy F. Vu, History, University of Houston

The Anti-communist Zeal Is What Vietnamese Americans Make of It, Long Le, Political Science, University of Houston

Defining and Shaping Community: The Role of Religion in the Development of a Vietnamese American Community in San Jose, CA,  Hien Duc Do, Social Science, San Jose State University

Cultural Politics and the Generational Gap in Little Saigon, Orange County, Linda Trinh Võ and Quan T. Tran, Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine

Discussant:  Linda Trinh Võ, University of California, Irvine

5:55-6:40pm:  Keynote Address: Professor Peter Zinoman, UC Berkeley

6:40-6:45pm:  Closing Remarks:  Fiona Ngo, University of Oregon; Mariam Lam, University of California, Riverside

Reception Dinner 7pm

Free and open to the public.  No advance registration required.

UC Riverside Campus Map, Directions, and Parking Information:
http://www.campusmap.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/mapit.cgi
UC Riverside Extension Center Map (Conference Hall/Room Location):
http://www.campusmap.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/mapit.cgi?loc=UCREX
There is also a small public parking lot adjacent to the UCR Extension Center (to its right).

Sponsored by the UC Research Program "Southeast Asia: Text, Ritual, Performance" (SEATRiP-UCR), the Ethnic Studies Department - UCSD, the UCSD Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity (CSRE), UCSD California Cultures in Comparative Perspective, International Education Programs-UCR Extension, and the Vietnamese American Caucus of the Association for Asian American Studies.

Cost : Free

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/fiona/conference.htm