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Mimi Nguyen

Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, University of Michigan

"Beauty without Borders: Fashions, Neoliberalisms, Feminisms"

Feb 2 & Feb 3, 2006

Mimi Nguyen will appear in two events during her visit to Duke (Feb 2- Feb 3).

Thursday, Feb 2, 4:30pm, 204B East Duke: Professor Nguyen will give a public lecture entitled "Beauty Without Borders: Fashions, Neoliberalisms, Feminisms." This lecture is sponsored by Women’s Studies, Institute for Critical US Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Asian & African Languages and Literatures, and Cultural Anthropology. Reception to follow.

Friday, Feb 3, 1:15-2:30pm, East Duke Parlors: Nguyen will be guest speaker in an open session of Gender & Popular Culture, an undergraduate seminar in the Women's Studies Program taught by Paul Lai. Refreshments will be provided. This event is part of the Asian American Studies Discussion Series, sponsored by the Center for Asian and Asian American Studies.

For more information, please contact Paul Lai (paul.lai@duke.edu).

About the Speaker

Mimi Thi Nguyen is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rackham School of Graduate Studies and Assistant Professor in Women’s Studies, focused on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her book (forthcoming from Duke University Press) examines the historical production and mobilization of “refugeeness,” in particular within the transnational configuration "Vietnamese America." She continues to situate her work within transnational feminist cultural studies with her following project, which will focus on fashion, citizenship and transnationality. Nguyen is co-editor with Thuy Linh Tu of Alien Encounters: Pop Culture in Asian America (forthcoming from Duke University Press) and author of multiple essays on Asian American, queer, and punk subcultures, digital technologies, and Vietnamese diasporic culture, published in academic collections, on-line publications and popular magazines. To find out more about Mimi's work, visit her website.

Beauty Without Borders...?