The Memory of War
Viet Nguyen - Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Thursday, April 14, 2016 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his award-winning novel, The Sympathizer (2015), and his new book, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016) with Professor Jing Tsu, Chair of the Council on East Asian Studies and Professor of Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature. The two works are the fictional and scholarly bookends to a project that asks how we can ethically remember war and tell just and true war stories.
Event will be followed by a book signing.
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