Jan 21, 2025–Jan 21, 2025 from 4:00pm–6:00pm
Guest Speaker Dr. Mimi Thi Nguyen: From Punk to K-Pop
Mimi Thi Nguyen is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 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 The Promise of Beauty, which considers the promise of beauty in times of crisis and catastrophe (Duke University Press, October 2024). She is also a part of an editorical collective for Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader, which considers BTS as a lens through which to make sense of histories of our social, political, and aesthetic present. (Duke University Press, August 2024).
Tuesday, January 21st, 2025 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Meeting ID: 880 6408 6359
Passcode: 8i3URq
FREE and open to the public
Date and Time
Jan 21, 2025–Jan 21, 2025
from 4:00pm–6:00pm
Location
ON ZOOM
Event Registration
Registration is not required for this event.
Event Fee
FREE
Contact
Amy Cimini • acimini@ucsd.edu
Audience
Faculty, Staff, Students, The General Public, Alumni, Parents and Family
Event Host
UC San Diego Department of Music