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DESCRIPTION:Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi\n\nAssistant Professor of Asian America
 n Studies\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\nWhat does it mean to 
 think Southeast Asia archipelagically? What points of connection and conver
 gence does an archipelagic method enable? In this talk\, Dr. Evyn Lê Espiri
 tu Gandhi offers notes on an archipelagic praxis for Southeast Asian studie
 s. Putting the Vietnamese concept of nước\, which means water/country/homel
 and\, in conversation with Pacific Islander and Palestinian understandings 
 of the archipelago\, Dr. Gandhi traces the postwar migration of Vietnamese 
 refugees to Guam and Israel-Palestine in order to unpack what she calls the
  "refugee settler condition": the fraught positionality of refugee subjects
  whose resettlement in a settler colonial state is predicated on the unjust
  dispossession of an Indigenous population. This talk probes the decolonial
  politics of nước as routed through archipelagic epistemologies\, theorizin
 g emergent forms of refugee-Indigenous solidarity.\n\nEvyn Lê Espiritu Gand
 hi is an assistant professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA (Tovaangar).
  Her work engages critical refugee studies\, settler colonial and Indigenou
 s studies\, and transpacific studies. She is the author of Archipelago of R
 esettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and
  Israel-Palestine\, which was published open access by University of Califo
 rnia Press in April 2022. In summer 2022\, Dr. Gandhi organized a public hi
 story exhibit based on this book's research entitled Remembering Saigon: Fr
 om Vietnam to Guam. She is currently co-editing an anthology\, Routledge Ha
 ndbook of Refugee Narratives\, with Vinh Nguyen\, as well as working on a s
 econd book project\, tentatively entitled Revisiting the Southern Question:
  South Korea\, South Vietnam\, and the US South. Dr. Gandhi hosts a podcast
 \, Distorted Footprints\, through her Critical Refugee Studies class.\n\nCo
 -sponsored by the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP).\n
 \nThis Gatty lecture will take place in person at the Kahin Center\, but pe
 ople are also welcome to join us on Zoom. \n\nLunch will be served.\n\nFor 
 questions\, please contact seapgatty@cornell.edu.
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SUMMARY:Gatty Lecture: Toward an Archipelagic Southeast Asian Studies: Viet
 namese Refugee Settlers and the Decolonial Politics of Nước
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 outheast_asian_studies_vietnamese_refugee_settlers_and_the_decolonial_polit
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