Justin Quang Nguyen Phan, Assistant Professor, Global Asian Studies, “Embodied Nonalignment: Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics and Cold War Mediations”
Faculty Fellow Lecture Series
February 19, 2026
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Address
1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607
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Download iCal FileJustin Quang Nguyên Phan (he/they) is an Assistant Professor of Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. His interdisciplinary research and teaching broadly engage insights from critical race and ethnic studies, feminist epistemologies, postcolonial theory, and Southeast Asian/American visual culture. They’ve written exhibition catalog essays for the RAW Material Company in Dakar, Senegal and the Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and has journal articles published and/or forthcoming with Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures in the Americas and Trans Asia Photography. His current book manuscript, Embodied Nonalignment: Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics and Cold War Mediations, aims to theorize how Vietnamese diasporic cultural productions refract Cold War legacies through diasporic genealogies of nonalignment. By looking at multiple mobilizations of Global Asias, the book employs visual and performance analysis to demonstrate how Vietnamese and Vietnamese diasporic artists unsettle Cold War, colonial, and postcolonial nationalist frameworks in favor of freedom and liberation.
Date posted
Jul 18, 2025
Date updated
Jul 18, 2025