ViSA Weekly Newsletter 3/2/20 - 3/8/20

[Cathy Duong]

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*safe travels this spring break season! *
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, *work on your submission to ViSA Vibe*, and we'll see
you all again in two weeks!

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Please reach out to me (cathy.duong at yale.edu
<cathy.duong at yale.edu?subject=ViSA%20Newsletter>) 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. *Send
in ideas for what events you would like ViSA to host in the future as well!*
Opportunity: Submit to ViSA Vibe, Newsletter/Zine Publication!
MARCH
3
Interest Form
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Deadline: Tuesday, 3/3.
Submission Form
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Friday, 3/20 (last day of Spring Break).

"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

It's 2020, and ViSA is reviving ViSA Vibe! *ViSA Vibe is a newsletter/zine
publication of sorts, made by and for the Vietnamese community at Yale
(undergraduate students, graduate students, & faculty!)*. 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...

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.

We hope to give a copy of our publication to Ocean Vuong as a gift, when we
hold the discussion event with him in late April. Submit your pitch today,
and work on your piece throughout Spring Break!

Event: CSEAS Brown Bag Seminar: “Confession, Cosmopolitanism, and Catholic
Identity in Early Modern Vietnam" - Nhung Tuyet Tran
MARCH
4
*Date:* Wednesday, 3/4
*Time:* 12pm-1pm
*Place: Luce Hall, Room 203 (34 Hillhouse Ave)*

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.

*Nhung Tuyet Tran *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.
Opportunity: Vietnamese Language Table
MARCH
6
*Date:* Every Friday
*Time:* Noon
*Place: Berkeley Dining Hall (upstairs)*

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!

If you are also interested in being a student host for the
Vietnamese Language Table, please email Thay Quang (quang.van at yale.edu
<quang.van at yale.edu?subject=Student%20Host%20for%20Vietnamese%20Language%20Table>)
for more information.
Opportunity: Tina E. Yeh Community Service Memorial Fellowship
MARCH
27
Application: Link Here
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Due Date: Friday, 3/27

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 Asian Pacific Fund
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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.

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.

Eligibility Criteria:

   - Yale undergraduate (preference given), recent graduate, or graduate
   student
   - Asian ethnic heritage
   - Demonstrated financial need

Student applications are now open. Students may contact
scholarship at asianpacificfund.org with any questions.
Event: A Reading and Discussion with Ocean Vuong
APRIL
29
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*Date:* Wednesday, 4/29
*Time:* 7pm-8:30pm
*Place: Sudler Recital Hall at WL Harkness Hall*

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Opportunity: 2020 Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute
JUNE
15
*Program Duration:* June 15 to August 7, 2020

*Application
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Deadlines:*
FLAS Fellowship & SEASSI Scholarship: February 10, 2020
WISLI Tuition Scholarship: April 1, 2020
SEASSI Tuition Scholarship & General Applications: April 6, 2020

SEASSI
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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.

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.

Questions about SEASSI or the status of your application?
Please email: seassi at seasia.wisc.edu.
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