2023

“Towards the 50th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War: Vietnamese Americans Contending with War and Postwar Legacies,” University of Oregon (October)

  • Moderator, Luncheon address by Nathalia Nguyen on the Vietnamese diasporas.

“Historical Legacies of Christianity in East Asia: Bridging New Generation of Scholars and Scholarship,” Ricci Institute for  Chinese–Western Cultural History, Boston College (October)

  • Mentoring faculty

Library of Congress, panel “American Impact on the Culture of the Republic of Vietnam (May)

  • Presenter, “Popular Music in South Vietnam”

“Mary in Asian Religions, Initiative for the Studies of Asian Catholics,” National University of Singapore (online) (May)

  • Presenter, “Our Lady of Fatima in South Vietnam and the Postwar Diaspora”
My third time at University of Oregon was moderating a conference luncheon address, October 27, 2023.
Spring 2022 ~ First in-person ACTC in three years, this time at University of Notre Dame

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
It was a pleasure being in the audience at this conference, even though it meant getting up at 3:00 AM. The majority of participants were Vietnam-based academics: a sign of growing interest about the culture in the Republic of Vietnam.

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”
April 2021 ~ Back to ACTC

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”
HUTE symposium
My last scholarly presentation before the pandemic was to my Pepperdine colleagues.

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”
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Fall 2019 ~ University of Oregon
Vermont
Summer 2019 ~ Pepperdine at University of Vermont in Burlington, Bernie’s hometown.
Spring 2019 ~ AAS panel on Vietnamese Catholicism

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”
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ACLA @ UCLA Spring 2018 ~ The seminar “Southeast Asian Literature & Cultural Politics in the Diaspora”

Vietnamese Speaker Flyer reeducation camp 2017

ACTC 2017
Spring 2017 ~ With Kathleen Burk, ACTC’s incoming executive director.

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
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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”
ACTC 2016 title

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
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March 2015 ~ Workshop on Vietnamese in the U.S., Occidental College

 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”
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Fall 2014 ~ Discussant at the Engaging with Vietnam, University of Oregon

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”
UW 2018 conference

 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“