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CATEGORIES:Multicultural/Identity CATEGORIES:Ethics CATEGORIES:Human Rights CATEGORIES:United States Focus CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement/Social Action CATEGORIES:Diversity/Inclusion CATEGORIES:Global CATEGORIES:Humanities CATEGORIES:Politics CATEGORIES:Social Sciences CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Lectures/Conferences CATEGORIES:Other CATEGORIES:Utilities CATEGORIES:Health/Wellness CATEGORIES:Reading CATEGORIES:Panel/Seminar/Colloquium CATEGORIES:Main CATEGORIES:Webcast CONTACT;X-BEDEWORK-UID=8a0290b4-860465b2-0186-debfba9d-00003c8d:Asian Paci fic Studies Institute (APSI) CREATED:20260520T122822Z DESCRIPTION:APSI's summer book club is back by popular demand. This year\, the books have been chosen to set the stage for APSI's annual keynote ta lk which will feature author and professor Viet Thanh Nguyen.\n\nProfesso r Marguerite Nguyen (Duke) launches our two-book sequence with Nguyen's 2 015 multiple award-winning debut novel\, The Sympathizer.\n\nThe discussi on will take place online\, so members of the community near and far are welcome to join.\n\nBe sure to register via Zoom (https://duke.zoom.us/me eting/register/GNPGJeflTyaOGJrb_J3DgQ).\n\nFrom the publisher\nWith the p ace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Vladimir Nabokov\, "The Sympathizer" is a sweeping epic of lo ve and betrayal. The narrator\, a communist double agent\, is a "man of t wo minds\," a half-French\, half-Vietnamese army captain who comes to Ame rica after the Fall of Saigon\, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his comm unist superiors in Vietnam. "The Sympathizer" is a blistering exploration of identity and America\, a gripping spy novel\, and a powerful story of love and friendship.\n\nAbout the moderator\nMarguerite Nguyen is an Ass ociate Professor of English. Her research and teaching cover American lit erature\, Asian American literature\, Vietnamese diasporic studies\, crit ical refugee studies\, and ecocriticism. She is author of "America's Viet nam: The Longue Durée of US Literature and Empire" (Temple University Pre ss\, 2018) and co-editor of "Refugee Cultures: Forty Years after the Viet nam War" (MELUS Special Issue\, 2016). Her research has been supported by the Andrew Mellon Foundation\, American Council of Learned Societies Fel lowship\, and National Humanities Center. She is also affiliated with the Asian American and Diaspora Studies Program. \n\nHer current project\, " Refugee Ecologies\," explores local-global understandings of the environm ent among Vietnamese refugee communities in New Orleans. It posits narrat ives of forced migration as a defining feature of the US South and of Ame rican literature more broadly. 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