2022
Association for Core Texts and Courses (April)
- Discussant, the panel on the book Rescuing Socrates by Roosevelt Montás
Vietnam Center, annual conference, Orange, California (April)
- Participant
Association for Asian Studies, annual conference (March)
- Chair & discussant, the panel “Networks and Mobilities of Belief in the Making of Vietnamese Catholicism”
Undergraduate conference Questions That Endure (online), Concordia University Irvine (February)
- Faculty participant
2021
Literature and Journalism in the Republic of Vietnam, University of Hamburg (June)
- Participant
Association for Core Texts and Courses, annual conference (April)
- Presenter, “Solitude is Power? Teaching Milton during the Pandemic”
- Moderator, the panel “Living Alone: Literature and the Pandemic”
Association for Asian American Studies, annual conference (April)
- Presenter, “From Reeducation Camps to Little Saigons: Historicizing Vietnamese Diasporic Anti Communism”
Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, annual conference, Texas Tech University (April)
- Presenter, “‘Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart Will Prevail’: Marian Devotionalism, Anticommunism, and the Vietnam Conflict”
- Presenter, “Vietnamese American Catholic Laywomen and the Modern Vietnamese Catholic Associational Culture”
World Christianity Conference, Princeton Theological Seminary (March)
- Presenter, “Vietnamese Marianism in the Twentieth Century”
- Moderator, the panel “Sino-Christian Studies I”
Undergraduate conference Questions That Endure, Concordia University Irvine (February)
- Faculty participant
Ethnicity and Community Identity in Southeast Asia, UC Berkeley-UCLA Southeast Asian Studies Conference, UCLA (February)
- Presenter, “Vietnamese Marianism in the Twentieth Century”
2020
The History of Catholic Laywomen, workshop, Dayton University (March)
The Conversation on the Liberal Arts, annual conference, Westmont College (February)
- Participant
Humanities & Teacher Education Division Symposium, Seaver College, Pepperdine University (February)
- Presenter, “Exilic Catholicism: Vietnamese Catholic Refugees in America, 1975-1990”
2019
Studying Republican Vietnam: Issues, Challenges, and Prospects, University of Oregon (October)
- Presenter, “Pray the Rosary and Do Apostolic Work: the Catholic Associational Culture in the Republic of Vietnam” ~ Click here for the slideshow.
The Triennial Conference on the History of Women Religious, Saint Mary’s College (IN) (June)
- Presenter, “The Resettlement of Vietnamese Refugee Women Religious in the United States, 1975-1977”
The Teaching Professor, annual Conference, New Orleans (June)
- Participant
The Institute on General Education and Assessment, annual workshop, Association of American Colleges & Universities, University of Vermont (June)
- Participant
Association for Core Texts and Courses, annual conference, Santa Fe (April)
- Presenter, “Viola the Outsider”
Association for Asian Studies, annual conference, Denver (March)
- Organizer & chair, panel “Vietnamese Engagement with Global and Transnational Catholicism: New Directions in Scholarship”
2018
Global General Education and Asian Texts: What Should Students Read?, Association for Core Texts and Courses, Concordia University Irvine (July)
- Presenter, “Not Lovers But Friends: The Final Decision in The Tale of Kieu”
- Chair, the panel “Religion and Texts: Talking Across Barriers”
Association for Core Texts and Courses, annual conference, Framingham (April)
- Presenter, “New Money, New Love: Naval Officers in Persuasion.”
- Chair, the panel “Displacement: Refugees, Immigrants, Rebels”
American Comparative Literature Association, annual meeting, UCLA (March)
- Presenter, “The Exilic Mind in the Literature of Vietnamese Refugees”
Association for Asian Studies, annual conference, Washington, DC (March)
- Presenter, “Ultramontanism, Nationalism, and the Fall of Saigon: Historicizing Vietnamese Catholicism in America”
2017
Vietnamese Program Speaker, Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, California State University, Fullerton (November)
- Invited talk, “From Reeducation Camps to Little Saigons: Vietnamese Postwar Incarceration and Diasporic Anticommunist Protests”
Association for Core Texts and Courses, annual conference, Dallas (April)
- Presenter, “Viola the Refugee”
- Chair & organizer, the panel “Outsiders in Core Texts”
- Chair, the panel “Opportunities and Difficulties of Cross-Cultural, Cross-Civilizational Texts and Programs”
Association for Core Texts and Courses, biennial undergraduate conference, Concordia University Irvine (March)
- Faculty participant & panel judge of best papers
The panel “Vietnam in Context,” Rollins College (January 29)
- Invited talke, “Family & Nation: Starting Points Towards a History of Vietnamese Refugees in the U.S.”
- Above: Panel with Rep. Stephanie Murphy (FL), herself a former Vietnamese refugee, moderated by Prof. Marianne DiQuattro, Rollins College, 2017
- Below: With Nhung Walsh at Engaging with Vietnam, University of Hawaii’, 2016
2016
Humanities & Teacher Education Division Symposium (October)
- Presenter, “One Vision, Two Projects: The Fall of Troy and the Fall of Saigon–and How to Get Them Done in the Next Ten Years!”
Engaging with Vietnam, annual conference, University of Hawai’i at Manoa (October)
- Presenter, “Lost, Mourned, and Retrieved: Identity and the Nation in the Music of Vietnamese Refugees, 1975-1990”
- Chair & discussant, the panel “War, Art, and Memory”
- Chair & discussant, the panel “Vietnamese Diasporic Community, Scholarship, and Art”
- Discussant, keynote session “Music, Politics, Commercialization in Contemporary Vietnam”
Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, annual conference, Cal State University, Northridge (June)
- Presenter, “Lost, Mourned, and Retrieved: Identity and the Nation in the Music of Vietnamese Refugees, 1975-1990”
- Organizer, the panel “Postwar Music in Vietnam and the Diaspora”
Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC), annual conference, Atlanta (April)
- Presenter, “Shock, Loss, Grief: The Fall of Troy and the Fall of Saigon”
2015
Convocation panel, Pepperdine University (October)
- Organizer & moderator, “Who Is A Refugee? Pepperdine Faculty and Staff Sharing Their Experience as Refugees and Children of Refugees”
Pacific Council on International Policy, Los Angeles (September)
- Moderator, the panel “Newfound Friends: Prospects for American and Vietnamese Partnership”
Current Trends in Christian Scholarship and the Future of the Christian University, Lilly Graduate Fellows Conference, Pepperdine University (August)
- Presenter, “‘Cradle Catholic–Ridiculous Phrase; Who Invented It?’: My Religious Upbringing and Historical Sensibility”
Vietnamese in America Since 1975: History, Identity, and Community, Occidental College (April)
- Presenter, “From Reeducation Camps to Little Saigons: Historicizing Vietnamese American Anticommunism”
- Conference co-organizer
2014
Engaging with Vietnam, annual conference, University of Oregon (November)
- Presenter, “From Reeducation Camps to Little Saigons: Historicizing Vietnamese American Anticommunism”
- Panel organizer, “Vietnamese in the Diaspora: Culture, History, and Identity”
- Discussant, the keynote session “Centers and Their Cultural Peripheries
Association for Core Texts and Courses, annual conference, Los Angeles (April)
- Presenter, “Teaching Molière’s Tartuffe and the Comic Spirit in Great Books”
2011
ASPAC/WCAAS Joint Conference, Pomona College (June)
- Presenter, “Viet Ve Nuoc My: Vietnamese Immigrants Writing About America”
2009
SEATRiP Colloquium Series, University of California, Riverside (May)
- Presenter, “From Hanoi to Saigon: Discourse on Individualism in Mid-Century Vietnam”
2008
Beyond Dichotomies: Alternative Voices and Histories in Post-Colonial Vietnam, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Washington (May)
- Presenter, “The Promotion of Bourgeois Values in Saigon”
Association for Asian Studies, annual conference, Atlanta (April)
- Presenter, “Anticommunist and Bourgeois Values in Saigon, 1955-1960”
The US and the Pacific World, The American West Center, University of Utah (February)
- Presenter, “Political and Cultural Linkages: South Vietnamese Urban Society and Postwar Vietnamese-American Settlements”
2007
Association for Asian Studies, annual conference, Boston (March)
- Presenter, “Ethnic Nationalism in Wartime Southern Vietnamese Music“
- Organizer, the panel “Vietnamese Nationalism from Wartime to Present”
New Vietnam War Revisionism, Williams College (February)
- Participant
2006
Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University (October)
- Presenter, “The Impact of Americanization on the South Vietnamese Urban Society”
Going with the Past: Vietnamese Traditional Culture in Contemporary Society, Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture, and Society, Temple University (October)
- Presenter, “The Hoc Lam Nguoi (Learning To Be Human) Books in Modern Vietnamese Culture”
Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Conference, Cornell University (April)
- “Nationalism, Personalism, and Vatican II: The Origin of Anti-Americanism From the Catholic Left in South Vietnam”
Gender Myths, Gender Meanings: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on Gender in East, South and Southeast Asia, Harvard University (April)
- “The Diminishment of Manhood: The Role of Gender in the Protest Movement of South Vietnamese Disabled Veterans, 1970-1971”
The Vietnam Center, annual conference, Texas Tech University (March)
- “Economic Deprivation, Diminished Manhood, and Anti-Americanism: The Protest Movement of Disabled ARVN Veterans, 1970-1971“
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