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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”

Anti-Asian racism and violence have escalated around the world, coinciding with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, in France, racially motivated violence against people perceived as “Asian” was already on the rise, even before the pandemic. Frustrated by the lack of public outrage and the inaction of government authorities, people of Asian heritage inContinue reading “New publication by Elizabeth Collins: “#AsiatiquesDeFrance””

Nathalie Huỳnh Châu Nguyễn’s comprehensive Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora has just come out, with seven chapters from six ASERN colleagues: -“Documentary film memorialisation of Vietnamese indentured labour in France and New Caledonia: Sighting history,” by Alexandra Kurmann and Tess Do -“Linda Lê: Migrant Writer M/other,” by Leslie Barnes -“The transdiasporic turn towards multiplicityContinue reading “ASERN in the Routledge Handbook for the Vietnamese Diaspora”

ASERN members Tess Do, Jack Yeager, and Leslie Barnes have co-edited a volume of essays on Linda Lê as a tribute to the author’s career and a gesture of gratitude for the community of readers her writing created. The volume includes articles by other ASERN members, including a study of Lê’s translations into English andContinue reading “Linda Lê (1963-2022)”

Many fundamental aspects of literary narrative raise questions of power, agency, and authority.  One might consider, for example, the relationship between a narrator and a character, the transformation of speech into written dialogue, or the often unacknowledged role of translation in the staging of cultural and linguistic difference.  Narrators may assert their own authority toContinue reading “New publication by Karl Britto: Stories Told and Untold. Graham Greene’s The Quiet American and Anna Möi’s Le Vénin du papillon”

In 2015, Jennifer Howell observed that Vietnamese writers are often overlooked by Francophone specialists, receiving, proportionally to other postcolonial minorities, less attention in Francophone studies and often missing from important collective volumes on Francophone postcolonial studies. This can be explained by the way the Indochina war is positioned in the French espace mémoriel, the heterogeneity of the Việt Kiều community,Continue reading “ASERN at the Society for French Studies”