Join us for an in-person lecture with Jana Lipman on Wednesday, December 8th at 6 PM in the Gallier House exhibition space.

With the visible numbers of refugees in Afghanistan and along the U.S. southern border, refugees have been in the news. What is the history of U.S. refugee policy? Who is a refugee and why?  

Taking the example of Vietnamese at the end of the Vietnam War, this talk will explore how Vietnamese experienced refugee camps in Southeast Asia and the Pacific before coming to the United States. It examines refugee activism in the camps and in the diaspora, and it explains why this history remains relevant today.

About the Speaker:
Jana Lipman is a professor at Tulane University. She is the author of In Camps: Vietnamese refugees, asylum seekers, and repatriates and the co-translator of Ship of Fate: A Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate by Tran Dinh Tru.  

This event is made possible by funding from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Funding for 2021 Rebirth grants has been administered by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) and provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and the NEH Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) initiative.

Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.