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Rockefeller Fellowship Presentations
The second of the five-part series of the
Rockefeller Fellowship Presentations will be held Wednesday, April 16, 2003
in the Provost's Conference Room from 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM. . Lunch will be
served.
Ms. Mariam Beevi, a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature
at the University of California Irvine (completed in June 2002), will revise
and expand her dissertation “Surfin’ Vietnam: Trauma, Historical
Memory, and Cultural Politics in 20th Century Literature and Film,”
juxtaposing three different national contexts – France, Vietnam and
the U.S.
Mr. Nguyen Manh Hung (Nam Dao), a professor of economics
and a well-known writer, will study the phenomenon of the young writers who
choose the internet as the principal medium of communication – “Young
Vietnamese-American Writers in North America: Survival, Integration, and Prospect.”
Ms. Indigo A. Williams, a researcher and Founder and Director
of Adopted
Vietnamese International, will report on “The Construction of Adopted
Vietnamese Identity and Place in the Diaspora.”
