The 2008 Texas Tech
Comparative Literature Symposium
on “War, Empire, and Culture”
April 11-12, 2008 at Texas Tech University in
Lubbock, Texas
Texas Tech University houses the largest Vietnam
Archive in the United States, and West Texas has been home to thousands
of war veterans and immigrants. Spring in Lubbock is mild and sunny.
Keynote Speakers:
Caren Kaplan, Women and Gender Studies Program,
University of California at Davis
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Departments of English and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of
Southern California
John Carlos Rowe, Departments of English and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern
California
