Dự Án "Journey to Freedom: A Boat People Retrospective"

Đây là lần đầu tiên mà Thư Viện Quốc Hội (Library of Congress) và một nhóm người Mỹ Gốc Việt tổ chức một cuộc hội thảo về người tỵ nạn Việt Nam tại thủ đô Hoa Thịnh Đốn. Xin kính mời quý vị tham dự và ủng hộ cho buổi hội thảo này..

Chương Trình:

1/ Symposium tổ chức nhằm ngày Thứ Bảy 2 tháng 5, 2009.
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2/ Thời gian từ 08:30am - 04:30pm.

3/ Địa điểm: Tại Library of Congress.

Địa chỉ:  Thomas Jefferson Building 1st Street S.E., between Independence Avenue and East Capitol Street    Washington, D.C

4/ Đến phi trường:  Airports: Dulles International Airporthttp://www.oac.cdlib.org/institutions/ark:/13030/tf529010fv

Lời của bà Anne Frank:

" It is wonderful that the Vietnamese American community  and the Library of Congress are collaborating on this important event for the new generation and the general public.

I am the founding librarian of the Southeast Asian Archive (SEA) at the
 University of California, Irvine Library.  Dr. Pham Cao Duong is the
 "father" of the Archive, as he first had the idea for the collection
 and contacted UCI about its implementation.   The purpose of the SEA
 Archive is to document the experiences of the refugees and immigrants
 from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam who resettled in the United States
 after 1975.

 We have a number of archival collections concerning Vietnamese refugees, including material from Kim Ha, from Project  Ngoc, a UCI student group which assisted refugees in the Hong Kong  camps, and from Mr. Paul Tran, who also was an advocate for the  refugees in the camps.  Finding aids for these and other relevant  archival collections can be found on the Online Archive of
 California:
 http://www.oac.cdlib.org/institutions/ark:/13030/tf529010fv.

 In July 2007 I retired from UCI.  The interim librarian for the SEA
 Archive is Christina Woo, cjwoo@uci.edu.   I will forward your
 request to her concerning UCI's participation.  Since the focus of
 the symposium is on the first-hand stories  and experiences of the
 refugees, it would be wonderful if the SEA Archive could have copies
 of the essays from the symposium.  Please let us know if this would
 be possible. Thank you."