DATE: March 8, 2023
TIME: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
LOCATION: Buchanan A202 and online (Zoom)
Refugee Lifeworlds: Celebrating Dr. Y-Dang Troeung
DATE: March 7, 2023
TIME: 4:00pm – 7:30pm
LOCATION: Marine Drive Ballroom
On Tuesday March 7, at 4 pm, we invite you to celebrate the life and work of Dr. Y-Dang Troeung, whose generosity and sharpness of mind made her a treasured colleague and friend across the UBC community.
Dr. Y-Dang Troeung was a brilliant and resounding scholar in critical refugee studies, transnational Asian literatures, transpacific Cold War studies, and critical disability studies. At the core of Dr. Troeung’s work was a fierce commitment to the lived experiences of refugee communities, and, in her words, to “excavating and animating the subjugated knowledges of Cambodian people and Cambodian refugees.” Her first academic monograph, Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia (Temple University Press), was published in August 2022. It beautifully weaves familial and personal narratives with rigorous critique in order to examine the afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia.
This celebration of life will feature two panel discussions on Refugee Lifeworlds and announcements about her forthcoming publications. Copies of Refugee Lifeworlds will be available for in-person cash purchase throughout the event. This event can be attended in-person or virtually via Zoom.
This event is organized by ACAM and the Department of English Language & Literatures, and co-sponsored by the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, Canadian Literature, Public Humanities Hub, St. John’s College UBC, and the Faculty of Arts.
Event details
This event is free and open to the public, but make sure to RSVP to reserve a seat. Virtual participation will be facilitated via Zoom; information on how to join can be found in the RSVP confirmation message.
As announced in June 2022, UBC no longer requires students, faculty and staff to wear non-medical masks, but UBC continues to recommend that masks be worn in indoor public spaces. For this in-person event, ACAM also recommends the wearing of masks for the safety of vulnerable members of the community, as well as all guests.
Share a memory or message to celebrate Y-Dang
Y-Dang and her work have touched so many of us in transformative ways. We encourage you to celebrate Y-Dang with us by leaving a message or sharing a memory using this submission form. Your message will be shared privately with Y-Dang’s family and may be shared in a public tribute.
Preparing for the Public
DATE: March 7, 2023
TIME: 10:00am – 11:15am
LOCATION: Zoom
What should a scholar consider when preparing to take their work public or when the public becomes a focus of their research? What are the risks, concerns, and rewards of being a public scholar or doing scholarly work in public? Join us for a conversation between Dr. Xine Yao and Dr. Danielle Wong as they discuss popular culture, new media technologies, self-care, and what it means to do scholarly work in, with, and for the public.
This event is part of our Public Scholarship Series.
Speakers
Dr. Xine Yao (she/they) is Lecturer in American Literature to 1900 and co-director of the queer studies network qUCL at University College London. Yao’s Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America won Duke University Press’s Scholars of Color First Book Award as well as honourable mention for the Arthur Miller First Book Prize from the British Association of American Studies. Other accolades include the American Studies Association’s Yasuo Sakakibara Essay Prize. She is a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker and the co-host of PhDivas Podcast.
Dr. Danielle Wong (she/her) (moderator) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, where she also teaches in the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program. Her research focuses on the intersections between race, empire, and (new) media. She was previously a Postdoctoral Associate in the Asian American Studies Program at Cornell University. Her academic and public scholarship has been published in Society and Space, Post45, Canadian Literature, Theatre Research in Canada, and Transformations.