Guam to Palawan: Opposing Narratives of Vietnamese Repatriation, 1975 and 1995

We would like to invite the Loyola Schools Community to a lecture by Prof. Jana K. Lipman titled “Guam to Palawan: Opposing Narratives of Vietnamese Repatriation, 1975 and 1995.” The lecture—which is co-sponsored by the Department of History, the South East Asian Studies Program (AdMU), and the Ateneo Center for Asian Studies—will be on Feb. 16, 2015, 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Faculty Lounge, 1/f Dela Costa Building, Ateneo de Manila University.

Jana K. Lipman (PhD, Yale University) is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Tulane University. Her first book, Guantánamo: A Working-Class History Between Empire and Revolution (University of California Press, 2009) was the Co-Winner of the 2009 Taft Prize in Labor History. She is also the Co-Editor of Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism (NYU Press, forthcoming 2015). Her work has appeared in American Quarterly,Journal of Asian American Studies, Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of Military History, and Radical History Review. She is also an adviser to the Guantánamo Public Memory Project. Her current book project is on Vietnamese refugee camps in Southeast Asia in the late Cold War, 1975-1997.