In this interactive workshop, Mimi Thi Nguyen invites participants to imagine a future shaped by, and haunted by, our present. Inspired by "No One Turned Away for Lack of Future," a collection of flyers curated by punk musician and zinester Erica Dawn Lyle, participants will consider what communities might need to survive and thrive in the future, then create a flyer for an imagined future gathering.
Please register by Oct. 1. Lunch will be provided.
Funding support has been provided by the Global Arts + Humanities | Cross-Disciplinary Research Exchange.
Speaker, Mimi Thi Nguyen
Mimi Thi Nguyen is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College. Her first book, called "The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages," focuses on the promise of "giving" freedom concurrent and contingent with waging war (Duke University Press, 2012; Outstanding Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association of Asian American Studies, 2014). Her second book is called "The Promise of Beauty," which considers beauty as a fruitful concept through which we engage narratives of crisis (Duke University Press, 2024). She is also co-editor with Mariam Lam and Fiona I.B. Ngo of a special issue of positions: asia critique on Southeast Asian American Studies (20:3, Winter 2012); and co-editor with Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu of "Alien Encounters: Pop Culture in Asian America" (Duke University Press, 2007).
She has also published in "Signs, Camera Obscura, The Funambulist, Women & Performance," "positions," "Radical History Review," and "ArtForum" and her papers have been solicited for the Feminist Theory Archive at Brown University.
Nguyen has made zines since 1991, including "Slander" (formerly known by other titles) and the compilation zine "Race Riot." She is a former "Punk Planet" columnist and "Maximumrocknroll" volunteer. She is also co-author of the retired research blog on dress and beauty threadbared. In June 2013, Sarah McCarry's Guillotine ("a series of erratically published chapbooks focused on revolutionary non-fiction") released "PUNK," a conversation between Nguyen and Golnar Nikpour. Nguyen is working on a collection of columns and essays.
Funding support for programs and events have been provided by Global Arts + Humanities | Cross-Disciplinary Research Exchange.
Event Organizers
Courtney Hunt, Art and Design Librarian
Leticia Wiggins, Ethnic Studies Librarian
