Performing Vulnerability: Risking Art and Life in the Burmese Diaspora
November 19, 2026
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Emily Hue, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Southeast Asian, Text, Ritual, and Performance (SEATRiP) at the University of California, Riverside.
This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seap@cornell.edu.
Abstract
Forthcoming
About the Speaker
Emily is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and core faculty in Southeast Asian Text, Ritual, Performance (SEATRiP). Her research and teaching are in the fields of Asian American Studies, feminist studies, and performance, and more recently, in new materialisms and sustainable design. Her first book Performing Vulnerability: Risking Art and Life in the Burmese Diaspora (University of Washington Press, 2025) uses visual and performance analysis to explore how Southeast Asian diasporic artists use, in some cases, self-injury, to express their vulnerability to challenges of military rule as well as resettlement. You can find her most recent writing in the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, American Studies Quarterly, Amerasia, and the Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives. She hails from Brooklyn, NY.
Additional Information
Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program