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OFFLINE: Hall, Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-60 Nguyen Thai Hoc st., Ba Dinh, Hanoi
ONLINE: at ZOOM app (link and instruction will be sent to you one day before event).
Vietnamese only.
DANACHGEDANKEN is a series of thoughts about the ultimately change in world's order after COVID-19. A virus is showing us how globally networked and yet how fragile our public life is. What does the pandemic mean to and for each of us and for society as a whole?
Three intellectuals from three different backgrounds will share their thoughts with the audience, in order to help each person being able to find answer for the question of what lies in store for us afterwards.
About speakers
© Nguyen Yen Phi
Phi Yen Nguyen is an architect, co-founder and principal of the Vietnamese design practice atelier NgNg based in Saigon, Vietnam. Phi holds a Masters in Architecture from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design (GSD, 2016) and a Bachelor of Arts (Mathematics and Studio Arts, summa cum laude, valedictarian) from Berea College, USA (2011). She is currently working on her PhD at EPFL, Switzerland, in LabU, at the School of Architecture and Science of the City (EDAR) while joining teaching in the Department of Interior Architecture at Geneva School of Arts and Design. She is also a member of Site and Space in Southeast Asia, organized by the University of Sydney and supported by the Getty Foundation as part of its Connecting Art Histories Initiative (2019-2020). Phi has experiences working in both art/ design practice and research from design firms and institutions such as the Harvard Art Museums (Boston, U.S.A), Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York, U.S.A.), Kengo Kuma and Associates (Tokyo, Japan), GUND Partnership (Boston), the Archeological Exploration of Sardis Program (Sardis, Turkey). Phi's research lies in the conservation of urban heritage through both traditional and contemporary design lenses. Phi has participated in multiple talks and conferences, including chairing the section “Architectural Preservation in Asia” at the Society of Architectural Historians' 71st Annual Conference in St. Paul, MN in 2018." She also founded and coordinated 'về Huế,' a research and exhibion project about local architecture in Huế city, Vietnam, with a grant from the Graham Foudation (2018-2019).
© Nguyen Qui Duc
Nguyễn Quí Đức is a Vietnamese American radio broadcaster, writer, editor and translator. He has been a radio producer and writer since 1979, working for the British Broadcasting Corporation in London and KALW-FM in San Francisco and as a commentator for National Public Radio. He was the host of Pacific Time, KQED-FM Public Radio’s national program on Asian and Asian American Affairs, from 2000 to 2006. His essays have been published in The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, The New York Times Magazine, The San Francisco Examiner, The San Jose Mercury News and other newspapers. Other essays, poems, and short stories have appeared in City Lights Review, Salamander, Zyzzyza, Manoa Journal, Van, Van Hoc, and Hop Luu, as well as in several anthologies such as Under Western Eyes, Watermark, and Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace. Nguyễn Quí Đức is the author of Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family, and the translator of the novella Behind. The Red Mist by Ho Anh Thai, (Curbstone Press, 1997). He was also co-editor, with John Balaban, of Vietnam: A Traveler’s Literary Companion (Whereabouts Press, 1995), and ‘Once Upon A Dream: The Vietnamese – American Experience’ (Andrews and McMeel, 1995). His translation of The Time Tree, Poems by Huu Thinh, (Curbstone Press, 2004), with George Evans, was a finalist for the 2004 Translation Prize by the Northern California Book Reviewers Association. He was awarded the Overseas Press Club’s Citation of Excellence for his reports from Viet Nam for NPR in 1989, and in 1994, he was artist-in-residence at the Villa Montalvo Estates for the Arts, where he wrote the play A Soldier Named Tony D., based on a short story by Lê Minh Khuê, and produced in 1995 by EXIT Theatre at Knuth Hall, San Francisco. In 2001, Nguyen was named One of 30 Most Notable Asian Americans by A-Media. His documentary on Chinese youths, Shanghai Nights, was part of PBSFrontline/World series that was awarded the 2004 Edward R. Murrow Award of Excellence in Television Documentary from the Overseas Press Club of America and the same year, he also received a fellowship for outstanding achievements from the Alexander Gerbode Foundation. In 2006, returned to Hanoi and received the Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists.
© Nguyen Phuc Anh
Nguyen Phuc Anh has worked as a lecturer of Sino-Nom studies at the College of Social Sciences & Humanities, Vietnam National University-Hanoi since 2009. He graduated with a Bachelor’s in Sino-Nom studies in 2008 and is currently studying for a PhD in Sino-Nom studies at the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences, while also receiving the Asian Human Resources Fund for studying for another PhD in Social Anthropology at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. From May 2010 to June 2014, he received The Asian Graduate Student Fellowship to improve academic writing skills, and to carry out a study of Vietnamese nationalism and politics of identity at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. His current research interests include ethnicity, nationalism, and politics of identity, governmentality and neoliberalism in Vietnam.
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