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after all the midterms, after all the g r e a t food at the Tastes Like Home event, it's time for real home cooking for many of us who are heading home for the break. we hope you have a restful break whether you'll be staying in New Haven or traveling abroad. get your sleep, stay healthy, stay safe. recharge, <strong><span style="color:#b22222">work on your submission to ViSA Vibe</span></strong>, and we'll see you all again in two weeks!</div>
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<div style="text-align:left">good vpop content, as always <3 <br>
+ <a href="https://yale.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec9b64a1337f940e71b8d7f6f&id=4d950402b4&e=e1c8ccf848" style="color:#d00000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Nói Với Em - BigDaddy</a> <em>suggested by Chau Pham</em></div>
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<div style="text-align:left">+ <a href="https://yale.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec9b64a1337f940e71b8d7f6f&id=146aab2a5e&e=e1c8ccf848" style="color:#d00000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">CHÂN ÁI - ORANGE x KHÓI x CHÂU ĐĂNG KHOA</a> <em>suggested by Hillary Nguyen</em><br>
+ <a href="https://yale.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec9b64a1337f940e71b8d7f6f&id=f9d4984826&e=e1c8ccf848" style="color:#d00000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">2 Phút Hơn - Pháo x Masew</a><br>
+ <a href="https://yale.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec9b64a1337f940e71b8d7f6f&id=c0501014e1&e=e1c8ccf848" style="color:#d00000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Bản Tình Ca Không Tựa #1 - Bon</a><br>
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<div style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:10px">Please reach out to me (<a href="mailto:cathy.duong@yale.edu?subject=ViSA%20Newsletter" style="color:#d00000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">cathy.duong@yale.edu</a>) if you have any questions or concerns regarding the events and opportunities listed below, if you'd like to unsubscribe, or if you would like to suggest a listing (or song suggestion, or movie for our next movie night) for the next newsletter. <span style="color:#b22222"><strong>Send in ideas for what events you would like ViSA to host in the future as well!</strong></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://yale.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec9b64a1337f940e71b8d7f6f&id=f51e1aa5c6&e=e1c8ccf848" style="color:#d00000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Submission Form </a>Deadline: Friday, 3/20 (last day of Spring Break).<br>
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"The ViSA Vibe, the annual magazine of the Vietnamese Students Association at Yale, was conceived in 2002 by Jenny Lee, the ViSA Secretary at the time. The Vibe is a collection of memoirs, poetry, art and other cultural pieces created by the members." - from the front cover of ViSA Vibe 2009, vol. 7, in the AACC Archives<br>
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It's 2020, and ViSA is reviving ViSA Vibe! <span style="color:#b22222"><strong>ViSA Vibe is a newsletter/zine publication of sorts, made by and for the Vietnamese community at Yale (undergraduate students, graduate students, & faculty!)</strong>.</span> Our theme for this volume will be "Waves." This can mean many things: a series of events, waves of immigrants, actual ocean waves, Xuân Quỳnh's poem SÓNG... <br>
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We invite you to submit creative writing, poetry, personal or academic essays, art, photography, song lyrics, etc — as they relate to Vietnam, Vietnamese identity, Vietnamese issues, contextualizing and decontextualizing the Vietnamese experience, or to our theme "Waves," such as a contemplation of the relationship between sóng to sống. Submissions will be selected, and you will be notified by Monday, March 23.<br>
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<em><strong>Time:</strong></em> 12pm-1pm<br>
<em><strong>Place</strong>: Luce Hall, Room 203 (34 Hillhouse Ave)</em><br>
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Early Vietnamese Christians learned the teachings of their new way by reading and listening to the broad range of stories circulating in oral and written form in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The stories of the martyrs’ and saints’ lives, recast in cultural, ecological, and linguistic forms legible to Vietnamese speakers, gave members of this community of believers (các bổn đạo 各本道) models of virtue and suffering in the Christian cosmopolis. Drawing from the books, letters and transcripts from religious tribunals in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, I examine how Vietnamese Christians articulated a community identity that was no less deserving of grace and attention than any other part of the global church. This talk focuses on how local believers articulated their religious sensibilities as a community of believers for themselves, to the European Church leaders who seemed not to care for their souls, and against the non-believers (kẻ vô đạo 仉無道) around them.<br>
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<strong>Nhung Tuyet Tran </strong>is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Familial Properties: Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam and co-editor of Vietnam: Borderless Histories. She has just completed a monograph on the cultural history of Vietnamese Catholicism and has started on a new study on the idea of property, based on contracts made between Cham women and Vietnamese settlers in eighteenth century south-central Vietnam.</td>
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<em><strong>Time:</strong></em> Noon<br>
<em><strong>Place</strong>: Berkeley Dining Hall (upstairs)</em><br>
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Join Thay Quang for lunch at BK upstairs every Friday and practice speaking Vietnamese with your peers. Connect with members of the Vietnamese community at Yale, including faculty and graduate students, outside of your ViSA family and board! <br>
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If you are also interested in being a student host for the Vietnamese Language Table, please email Thay Quang (<a href="mailto:quang.van@yale.edu?subject=Student%20Host%20for%20Vietnamese%20Language%20Table" style="color:#d00000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">quang.van@yale.edu</a>) for more information. </td>
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In 2001, members of AAAYA, along with family and friends established the Tina E. Yeh Community Service Fellowship in memory of Tina E. Yeh ’83. Managed by the <a href="https://yale.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec9b64a1337f940e71b8d7f6f&id=97dccb3c04&e=e1c8ccf848" style="color:#d00000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Asian Pacific Fund</a>, this fellowship program encourages Yale undergraduates and recent graduates to become involved in community service through summer internships. Our goal is to nurture the leadership development of students and lend support to nonprofit organizations around the country that provide critical services to low-income and disenfranchised communities. <br>
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Fellowship grants (up to $3,000 based on demonstrated need) are available for Yale students who will intern for 10 weeks at a non-profit organization that serves the Asian American community (in the U.S. or Canada). The fellow can ask an agency to host a project designed by the fellow, or the host agency can assign the fellow to a project chosen by the agency. The fellowship offers an opportunity to learn about and directly contribute to the Asian community. Yale undergraduates, graduate students, or recent graduates of Asian ethnic heritage (at least 50%) are eligible to apply. <br>
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<em><strong>Time:</strong></em> 7pm-8:30pm<br>
<em><strong>Place</strong>: Sudler Recital Hall at WL Harkness Hall</em><br>
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Join ViSA and the AACC for a reading and discussion with writer Ocean Vuong. Ocean will be reading selections from his new book, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, engaging in a moderated discussion, and doing a Q&A. Please RSVP.<br>
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Ocean Vuong is the author of The New York Times bestselling novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, out from Penguin Press (2019) and forthcoming in 30 languages worldwide. A recipient of a 2019 MacArthur "Genius" Grant, he is also the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation, his honors include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Academy of American Poets, and the Pushcart Prize.<br>
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Vuong's writings have been featured in The Atlantic, Granta, Harpers, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and American Poetry Review, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as a 2016 100 Leading Global Thinker, alongside Hillary Clinton, Ban Ki-Moon and Angela Merkel, Ocean was also named by BuzzFeed Books as one of “32 Essential Asian American Writers” and has been profiled on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” PBS NewsHour, Teen Vogue, Interview, Poets & Writers, and The New Yorker.<br>
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Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he serves as an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at UMass-Amherst. <br>
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<em><strong><a href="https://yale.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec9b64a1337f940e71b8d7f6f&id=b192cb045c&e=e1c8ccf848" style="color:#d00000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Application</a> Deadlines:</strong></em><br>
FLAS Fellowship & SEASSI Scholarship: February 10, 2020<br>
WISLI Tuition Scholarship: April 1, 2020<br>
SEASSI Tuition Scholarship & General Applications: April 6, 2020<br>
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<a href="https://yale.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec9b64a1337f940e71b8d7f6f&id=3a61373dd9&e=e1c8ccf848" style="color:#d00000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">SEASSI </a>is an eight-week intensive language training program for undergraduates, graduate students and professionals. It has been held since 1983 and hosted by UW-Madison in 1994-1995 and then since 2000. Instruction is offered for academic credit in eight languages at the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year levels: BURMESE, FILIPINO, HMONG, INDONESIAN, JAVANESE, KHMER, LAO, THAI, VIETNAMESE.<br>
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Each language course is equivalent to two semesters of study, with full academic year credit. Instruction is given in small individualized groups taught by a team consisting of a coordinator (usually a linguist specializing in Southeast Asian language pedagogy) and teachers who are native speakers of that language. Instruction is intensive. Classes are held from 8:00 am to 12:30 pm, Mondays through Fridays. Most students find that they spend an additional three to four hours per day on homework.<br>
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