{"id":2023,"date":"2025-10-16T08:38:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:38:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:38:38","slug":"graphic-vietnam-visualizing-memoirs-memories-and-militarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/graphic-vietnam-visualizing-memoirs-memories-and-militarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium: \u201cGraphic Vietnam: Visualizing Memoirs, Memories, and Militarism\u201d by Long T. Bui"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Join the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies for our colloquium speaker series:<\/h3>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cGraphic Vietnam: Visualizing Memoirs, Memories, and Militarism\u201d<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">By Long T. Bui<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Monday, October 20, 2025<br \/>\n1:00-2:00 p.m.<br \/>\nCHASS INTS 1113<\/h3>\n<p>This talk presents my graphic memoir in progress. Using ethnic studies research and frameworks as the basis for art, I recognize the creative aspects of doing scholarly intellectual work (and vice versa). My book utilizes the power of comics and a powerful visual medium to draw out the many strands of the Vietnam War, previously considered America\u2019s longest war, linking them with other protracted American conflicts such as race wars, drug wars, gang wars, the wars on poverty and terror. Although this year marks the 50th anniversary of the \u201cend\u201d of the Vietnam war, I illustrate, through my refugee family\u2019s story, that no war is really over.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2024\" src=\"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/long_bui-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/long_bui-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/long_bui-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/long_bui.png 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong>Long T. Bui<\/strong> is Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine.<\/p>\n<p>He is the author of books such as <em>Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory<\/em> (2018), <em>Model Machines: A History of the Asian as Automaton<\/em> (2022), and <em>Viral World: Global Relations during the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/em> (2024).<\/p>\n<p>Bui earned a Ph.D. in Ethnic studies from UC San Diego and was a UC postdoctoral fellow in Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies for our colloquium speaker series: \u201cGraphic Vietnam: Visualizing Memoirs, Memories, and Militarism\u201d By Long T. Bui Monday, October 20, 2025 1:00-2:00 p.m. CHASS INTS 1113 This talk presents my graphic memoir in progress. Using ethnic studies research and frameworks as the basis for art, I recognize the creative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[63,52,51],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-asian-american-studies","tag-colloquium","tag-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}