Reading in Community with Refugee Lifeworlds

Olivia Lim is a recent graduate of the MA in English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on transnational Asian literatures, critical disability studies, debility, redress, and the Cold War in Asia. She holds a BA (Honours) in English Literature and Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies from the University of British Columbia.

Elaina Nguyen is an MA student in Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. She is currently working on her thesis which draws upon second-generation Vietnamese Canadian artistic productions to imagine collective futurity alongside the long temporalities of the imperial war in Vietnam. She has a Bachelor of Arts & Science (Honours) from McMaster University.

David Ng is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, activist, and academic. He is the Co-Artistic Director of Love Intersections, a media arts collective of queer artists of colour with a mandate to share intersectional stories through art. He is a Research Associate for Hello Cool World Media, and social justice communications firm, and he is also the project lead for Cultivating Kin, which is an initiative to decolonize the Canadian art system by putting Indigenous arts practices at the centre, through the leadership of Indigenous artists, supported by artists of colour. David has been a filmmaker for 22 years, and his films have screened internationally at over 60 film festivals. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. He holds a Master of Social Sciences from the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town. www.davidng.art