We are pleased to announce that Viet Thanh Nguyen will be our speaker for the 2022 K. Raymond Clark Contemporary Issues Forum held in Sinclair Auditorium on Wednesday, February 16 at 7:30 PM.
Ticket Information:
Tickets are now available to the Coe community (employees and students) at Coe's online box office. All members of the Coe community may receive one extra complimentary ticket for a guest. Tickets for the general public will again be $10 per ticket, with discounted tickets for non-Coe students and seniors for $5. New this year, we will be offering the option to view this event virtually. Virtual event tickets are $10 and purchase of this ticket will be valid for one link to watch the Contemporary Issues Forum from your computer or mobile device, but may not be used to attend in person.
Biography:
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American author who has written numerous books including “Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America,” “Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War,” “The Sympathizer” and “The Committed.” “The Sympathizer” won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among many other awards.
Viet has written for The New York Times, Time, The Guardian and The Atlantic, along with various other publications. His articles have been published in a variety of books and journals such as American Literary History, The New Centennial Review and the Japanese Journal of American Studies. He has been interviewed by Tavis Smiley, Charlie Rose, Seth Meyers and Terry Gross, to name a few.
Viet also is a university professor, the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He has earned several teaching and service awards including the Mellon Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students; the Albert S. Raubenheimer Distinguished Junior Faculty Award for outstanding research, teaching and service; the General Education Teaching Award; and the Resident Faculty of the Year Award.
We are honored to host Viet Thanh Nguyen at Coe College for the 2022 Contemporary Issues Forum and we hope you will consider joining us for this year’s event.
About the Event:
Established by the late K. Raymond Clark ’30, the Contemporary Issues Forum presents the views of distinguished leaders whose work has shaped and altered the course of world events. The forum has featured former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, former Poland President Lech Walesa, deep-sea oceanographer Robert Ballard, civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, “Doonesbury” cartoonist Garry Trudeau, ecology expert Jared Diamond, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts, celebrated author Sir Salman Rushdie, former Senate Majority Leader and Special Envoy George Mitchell, Pulitzer Prize-winning global health expert Laurie Garrett, legendary soccer player Abby Wambach, leading commentator on race Jelani Cobb, environmentalists and social entrepreneurs Yvon Chouinard and Craig Mathews, pioneering astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell and MIT AgeLab Director Dr. Joseph F. Coughlin.