The Social Justice Institute
Noted Scholars Series presents:
Dr. Y-Dang Troeung
Assistant Pr
ofessor\, English UBC
&
Dr. Thy Phu
P
rofessor\, Department of Arts\, Culture\, and Media\, University of Toronto
< span style="font-size: 20px\; color: #993300\;">“Refugee Archives across the Tr anspacific: Activating Anecdotes and Family Photography – A Conversation”
Co-sponsored by: The Social Justice I nstitute and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, University of British Columbia
W
HEN & WHERE
October 27\, 12-1pm
on Zoom
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How do we document the undocumented? Policy documents\, leg al briefs\, administrative files\, and so on feature refugees as objects of study. This conversation\, however\, will aim to shed light on the resourc es that refugees draw on to activate their own\, personal archives\, to enr ich\, nuance\, and even counter the seemingly objective reports associated with the so-called humanitarian regime. Thy Phu examines how domestic image s might help trace connections and estrangements\, the visual kinships that tie family members dispersed by war and other forms of violence. Y-Dang Tr oeung turns to a discussion of the archives of Cambodian refugee life\, con sidering the logic of “Cambodia’s minor anecdoting” and the family anecdote as an interruption of this Cold War episteme.
Thy Phu< /strong> is a Professor of Media Studies at the Department of Arts\, Cultur e\, and Media at UTSC. She is author and co-editor of five books: Pictu ring Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture\; Feeling Ph otography\; Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada\; Warring Visions: Vietnam and Photography (forthcoming in Decem ber 2021)\, and Cold War Camera (forthcoming Spring 2022) . She is also Director of The Family Camera Network\, a collaborative resea rch project that engages local communities in the building of an antiracist public archive through the collection and preservation of family photograp hs and their stories. In 2017\, she was elected as member of the College of New Scholars\, Artists\, and Scientists at the Royal Society of Canada. Sh e is co-founder of the research group Critical Refugee + Migration Studies Network of Canada and co-editor of the peer-reviewed\, open-access journal\ , Trans Asia Photography.
Y-Dang Troeung is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. S he researches and teaches in the fields of transnational Asian literatures\ , critical refugee studies\, global south studies\, and critical disability studies. She is the author of the book Refugee Lifeworlds: Aphasia and the Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia (Temple University Press\, forthcoming Fall 2022). In the summer of 2021\, she was the lead organizer of the exhibition “Remembering Cambodian Border Camps\, 40 Years Later\,” h eld at Bophana Audiovisual Research Center in Phnom Penh. Her recent public ations can be found in Canadian Literature\, Brick: A Literary Magazine\, Amerasia Journal\, and Inter-Asia Cultural St udies.
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