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Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis

Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis

curator-in-exile and independent scholar-artist

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lawrence-minh bùi davis, PhD is a refugee diaspore, curator, writer, and troublemaker who lives as a guest on the ancestral lands of the Piscataway Nation. A co-founder of the arts anti-profit AALR (2009), the Asian American Literature Festival (2017), and the Center for Refugee Poetics (2018), he believes in stewardship of literature as social and ethical ecosystem. As far as anyone knows, he was the first curator of viet descent at the World’s Largest Museum and Research Complex, as well as the first to be exiled from it. Sometimes you can see new things by the light of his neurodivergence.

Area of Expertise

  • Arts
  • Humanities & Social Sciences

Topics

  • Asian American Studies
  • Asian American literature
  • disability studies
  • Critical Refugee Studies
  • settler colonial studies
  • anticolonial thought
  • queer/trans/nb literatures
  • contingency and critical university studies
  • solidarity arts economies
  • ghosts

Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis

curator-in-exile and independent scholar-artist

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