Environment and Narrative in Vietnam: A Conversation with Ursula K. Heise and Chi P. Pham

• 18 March |  11am - 12pm Singapore Time (GMT+8) 
• 18 March |  10am - 11am Vietnam Time
• 17 March |  8pm - 9pm Pacific Daylight Time

This new volume of essays examines Vietnamese narratives on natural environments and environmental crises, both in the contexts of the majority (Kinh) and ethnic minority groups. It seeks to outline how different ideas of modernization, from the French colonial project to the Marxist understanding of nature by the Communist government, have shaped perceptions, policies, and activism regarding the environment. Join us for a conversation with the co-editors of the volume, to discuss the book and more broadly environmental humanities in Asia.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-41184-7

Ursula K. Heise is holds the Marcia H. Howard Term Chair in Literary Studies. She is co-founder and Director of the Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) at UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Her research and teaching focus on contemporary literature and the environmental humanities; environmental literature, arts, and cultures in the Americas, Germany, Japan, and Spain; literature and science; science fiction; and narrative theory. She is co-editor of Literatures, Cultures and the Environment series for Palgrave Macmillan.

Chi P. Pham is a Tenured Researcher at the Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi. She received her first Ph.D. degree in Literary Theory in Vietnam and her second Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside (USA). She is the secretary of the Association for the Study of Literature and Ecology in ASEAN (ASLE-ASEAN).

• Kiu-wai Chu, Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities and Chinese Studies, Nanyang Technological University
• Kelly Yin Nga Tse, Assistant Professor of English, The Education University of Hong Kong