Continuing the success of the Fulbright Speakers’ Series: The World Beyond a Book, Fulbright University Vietnam is delighted to host a luncheon talk with Assoc. Prof. Claudine Ang right at our Crescent campus in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City. In this exciting in-person chat coming up on Thursday, April 28, Assoc. Prof. Claudine Ang will enlighten us on her book “Poetic Transformations: Eighteenth-Century Cultural Projects on the Mekong”.
“Poetic Transformations: Eighteenth-Century Cultural Projects on the Mekong Plains” brings to the fore the significance of the act of writing and of the written script to civilizational discourses on the southern Vietnamese frontier in the eighteenth century. Drawing on Vietnamese and classical Chinese sources, Assoc. Prof. Claudine Ang studies two rival cultural projects—that of the territorially expanding Vietnamese and of the diasporic Chinese. Poetic Transformations captures a historical moment of overlapping visions, frustrated schemes, and contested desires on the Mekong plains. Engaging closely with the theme of the lecture series, The World Beyond a Book, Assoc. Prof. Claudine Ang will bring the audience behind the scenes where she discusses her translation practices and interpretive decisions; she will also highlight the significance of the textual world beyond the confines of the page.
Join Fulbright in this in-person luncheon talk with Assoc. Prof. Claudine Ang:
⏰11:30 AM – 1:00 PM on Thursday, April 28, 2022 (Vietnam time, GMT +7)
📌Venue: Classroom 1, Floor 2, Crescent Campus, Fulbright University Vietnam
🔷Lunch will be provided on the venue.
👉 Register at: https://forms.office.com/r/BnneZsMnHi
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Fulbright Speakers’ Series is a quest for knowledge and understanding with diverse incisive viewpoints of prominent authors, both in Vietnam and globally, venturing into a myriad of topics ranging from development history and current Vietnam in the context of globalization, to the importance of mental health in being a compassionate community member.
About the speaker:
Claudine Ang is an Associate Professor of Humanities (History) at Yale-NUS College. She is the author of Poetic Transformations: Eighteenth-Century Cultural Projects on the Mekong Plains (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019). Currently, she is working on another book, On Listening and Dissonance, in which she seeks to understand how kings listen to their subjects, how the vernacular spins tales about the classical, how the living communicate with the dead, and how dreamers eavesdrop on themselves in their slumber.
