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Catherine Nguyen has been awarded a 12-month fellowship by the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, 2025-2026.  This was formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship. Félicitations, Catherine!

In April 2025, Maika Nguyen successfully defended her thesis at the University College Dublin, titled ‘Writing Home: Haiti and Vietnam in the Autofiction of Dany Laferrière and Anna Moï’. Closely comparing the autofictional texts of Vietnamese writer Anna Moï (Nostalgie de la rizière, L’Année du Cochon de Feu and Le Pays sans nom) alongside those (Pays sans chapeau and L’ Énigme duContinue reading “Maika Nguyen, “Writing Home””

In October 2025, Clément Baloup, French-Vietnamese graphic novelist and visiting scholar at the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, spent two weeks in Australia teaching, running comic workshops, and leading seminars on graphic art, memory and diasporic narratives. His visit coincided with the release of Vietnamese Memories: Down Under, his fifth volume in the Mémoires de VietContinue reading “Clément Baloup’s Visit and the Launch of Vietnamese Memories: Down Under”

Alex Kurmann has just published a chapter Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019) in the Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel. Vuong’s novel not only offers a personal literary exploration of what it is to be a gay Vietnamese refugee coming of age in working-class America, but also presents an intimate heterobiography of subjects negotiatingContinue reading “New publication by Alex Kurmann: “Writing Millennial Lives at The Intersection of Class, Queerness and Refugeeism: Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous””

Nguyễ Giáng Hương’s Littérature vietnamienne francophone has been translated into Vietnamese by the Hố Chì Minh General Publishing House. The Việt Nam New Weekend announced the publication in a recent edition. In their spread on the publication, they quote literary scholar, Phạm Xuân Nguyên, who claims that “along with Jack Yeager’s The Vietnamese Novel inContinue reading “New publication by Nguyễn Giáng Hương: ‘Litterature vietnamienne francophone’ out in Vietnamese”

The Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center opened its doors in Phnom Penh in December 2006, with the aim of collecting and making widely accessible the country’s audiovisual heritage. Since then, it has provided practical training and professional support to hundreds of aspiring archivists, filmmakers and audiovisual technicians. At the same time, it has become a hubContinue reading “New publication by Leslie Barnes et. al: ‘I Love Her Like My Family’; Cinema, Conservation, Cambodia”

Paris a accueilli et nourri Pham Van Ky depuis son départ du Vietnam pour ses études à l’étranger. Cette ville a été cruciale dans les réflexions de l’écrivain et est devenu le symbole de sa quête d’harmonie entre l’Orient et l’Occident. Dans le Fonds Pham Van Ky de la Bibliothèque nationale de France sont conservés les tapuscrits d’une vingtaine de romans inédits. Paris, qu’as-tu fait de nous ? estContinue reading “Paris, qu’as-tu fait de nous?”

Howie Tam has written a short piece on the late Anthony Veasna So’s collection of short stories, Afterparties (2021), which won the National Book Circle’s John Leonard Prize for best first book. Read Howie’s article here. Image: The Nation

2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the official end of the Second Indochina War and the solidification of Communist regimes in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. 1975 also ushered in waves of Southeast Asian refugee and other migrant movements, establishing new communities around the world, including in Australia, Canada, France, and the US.          In January,Continue reading “ASERN at the MLA 2025 in New Orleans”

Le 21 juillet 1954, la signature des accords de Genève scelle l’indépendance du Vietnam, du Laos et du Cambodge. Pour le Vietnam proprement dit, ce n’est qu’en 1975 que le Nord et le Sud se réunifient en un seul État. Que reste-t-il de l’Indochine dans la mémoire collective 70 ans après l’armistice ? Que connaît-on duContinue reading “Indochine 70 ans après les Accords de Génève”