Wallis Annenberg Conference Room (SSMS 4315)
This panel discussion is organized on the occasion of Tiffany Chung: indelible traces, the first comprehensive museum survey of Vietnamese American artist and UCSB Alumna Tiffany Chung at the AD&A Museum on view from January 17-April 26, 2026.
This panel features coeditors of a forthcoming special issue of Amerasia Journal on "Between Refuge and Refuse: New Mediums/Methods for Theorizing Refuge(e) Environments." While refuge and refugees have been configured through militarized logics of rescue and made knowable through dominant media forms and carceral technologies, the panelists explore a more expansive definition of refuge that centers questions of solidarity and self-determination from the multiple perspectives of the displaced.
The panelists include Associate Prof. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (UCLA), Associate Prof. Emily Hue (UC Riverside), and Assistant Prof. Heidi Amin-Hong (UCSB), and will be moderated by artist and lecturer Hương Ngô (UCSB). The panelists will respond to the exhibition Tiffany Chung: indelible traces, the genesis of the special issue on refuge/refuse, and questions and reflections on framing new directions for the intersections of critical refugee studies, environmental studies, and Indigenous studies.
More information and speaker bios can be found here.