From: Center for Southeast Asia Studies Date: April 21, 2009 9:47:21 AM PDT To: lam@pacificnews.org Subject: TALK by Tieu Dao Bao Cu on Vietnamese poetry IN VIETNAMESE ONLY, Apr 28 Special Lecture IN VIETNAMESE "Thuyet trinh: Van hoc Viet nam giai doan chuyen tiep tu tien chien sang khang chien qua cuoc doi va tac pham cua nha tho Huu Loan" ["The Development and Transformation of Vietnamese Poetry in Wartime"] Tieu Dao Bao Cu Dissident Vietnamese writer Talk to be conducted in Vietnamese. NO TRANSLATION PROVIDED. Tuesday, 28 April 2009 12.30 to 2.00 pm IEAS conference room, 6th floor 2223 Fulton St., Berkeley CA Tieu Dao Bao Cu was born in 1945 in Hue. From 1967 to 1975, he taught in Buon Me Thuot and Bao Loc, Lam Dong, and was involved in anti-(Southern) government activities through both journalistic and covert operations. He was admitted to the Vietnamese Communist Party in 1974. Between 1975 to 1987, he worked at the offices of Youth and Fatherland Front in Bao Loc. In 1988, together with Huu Loan and Bui Minh Quoc, then Chairman of Writers and Artists Association of Lam Dong province, he set out on a country-wide journey to rally intellectuals and artists to sign a petition requesting the Vietnamese Communist Party to implement real democracy and renovation. Shortly after that trip he was expelled from the Party and put under house arrest. -- The Center for Southeast Asia Studies International & Area Studies University of California at Berkeley 2223 Fulton Street, #617 Berkeley, CA 94720-2318 Phone: (510) 642-3609 Fax: (510) 643-7062 http://cseas.berkeley.edu Andrew Lam Editor New America Media 275 9th street, 3rd floor San Francisco, Ca 94103 415-503-4170 x 110 Save June 4-5, 2009 for NAM! National Ethnic Media EXPO & Awards, Atlanta Hyatt Regency   more »