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DESCRIPTION:-------- WEDS TALKS: REFUGEE STORYTELLING AND MATERIAL CULTURE 
 AS KNOWLEDGE  PRODUCTION IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES [1] -----------------------
 ---------\n\n**\n\n*ABSTRACT:* Politics are heavily ingrained in dominant 
 understandings of  refugeehood through the political categorization of ref
 ugees, selective  admittance to countries of asylum, and dehumanizing st
 atistics reported by  governments receiving these individuals. In recent y
 ears, communities have  begun work to shift understandings of refugeehood
  and its dominant narrative  to one spread by the individual, centering v
 oices of refugees in works of  storytelling, preservation of heritage, a
 nd the sharing of material culture.  This talk will discuss the work being
  done by the Refugee Material Culture  Initiative to shift understandings 
 of refugeehood from those spread by  policy, statistics, and governing p
 eoples to understandings built on the  personal narratives told by individ
 uals who have experienced refugeehood. The  talk will discuss how the cent
 ering refugee voices and the act of  storytelling works to establish refug
 ees as knowledge-producers in their own  histories, applying frameworks i
 ncluding feminist epistemology, memory-work,  and postcolonial theory di
 scussed across Critical Refugee Studies, as well as  digital archaeology 
 techniques, to preserve, share, and make accessible the  various indivi
 dual stories of Vietnamese Refugees. The talk will showcase the  explorati
 on and sharing of material culture donated by Vietnamese Refugees  and the
 ir families to the Vietnamese Heritage Museum in Westminster  County’s Lit
 tle Saigon, and the role this digitization plays in processes  of storyte
 lling, knowledge production, and re-centering of refugees in their  own 
 history.\n\n*BIO:* Charley Walsh is an undergraduate junior in the College
  of Arts and  Sciences at UCLA, pursuing a BS in Anthropology and a BA in
  Classical  Civilizations.\n\nConnor Lim is a senior undergraduate in the 
 Samueli College of Engineering  studying Mechanical Engineering; his spec
 ialties lie in optical engineering  and imaging technologies.\n\nDate: Wed
 nesday, April 8, 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Contact Name
 : Sumiji Takahahshi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Contact Email: sutakahashi@ioa.ucla.
 edu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Registration: registration not required\n\n\n\n\n\n
 \n\n\n Events Tags: Pizza Talk [2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Location: Fowler A222
  (Seminar Room)\n\n[1] https://www.ioa.ucla.edu/content/weds-talks-refugee
 -storytelling-and-material-culture-knowledge-production-digital-humanities
  [2] https://www.ioa.ucla.edu/event-tags/pizza-talk
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LOCATION:Fowler A222 (Seminar Room)
SUMMARY:WEDS TALKS: Refugee Storytelling and Material Culture as Knowledge 
 Production  in Digital Humanities
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.ioa.ucla.edu/content/weds-talks-refugee-storytelli
 ng-and-material-culture-knowledge-production-digital-humanities
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