Opening Celebration of the DVAN Center in the College of Ethnic Studies, SFSU

This event is to celebrate the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN)—directed by Isabelle Pelaud, writer and Professor of Asian American Studies at SF State. Special guests will be DVAN co-founder and Pulitzer Prize novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Thi Bui, author of the celebrated graphic ‘novel’ The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir. They will be joined by Isabelle Pelaud (in conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen), She Who Has No Master(s) with Lan Duong, Aimee Phan and Julie Thi Underhill, and a reading/performance by Danny Nguyen—with emcee Philip Nguyen.