Event

2021–2022 FORUM ON MIGRATION

DR. S.T. LEE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN THE HUMANITIES

The Life and Letters of Migration

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author; University Professor, Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California.

Josephine Park, Professor of English

Dagmawi Woubshet, Ahuja Family Presidential Associate Professor of English

Award-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen and his family came to the US as refugees during the Vietnam War. Motivated by the one-sided movies and books of the war he grew up with, Nguyen’s work examines the legacy of that tumultuous time and its aftermath from a new perspective. His acclaimed debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the Pulitzer Prize, was a Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner, and made the finalist list for the PEN/Faulkner award. Join us as Nguyen reads from his latest novel, The Committed, and talks with Penn English scholars Josephine Park and Dagmawi Woubshet about literature, culture, politics, and migration.

Book signing following the event. Book sales are provided by Bindlestiff Books.

More information: https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/nguyen

Cosponsored by Penn's Department of English and Asian American Studies Program.

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This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Presented in person and as a Zoom webinar.

In accordance with Penn’s COVID-19 Guidelines, all in-person attendees are required to wear a mask; display their PennOpen Pass or PennOpen Campus green pass before entry; attest to having been vaccinated; and register their contact information with the organizers in the case that follow-up from contact tracers is needed.