Please join us in Auerbach 320 or online this Wednesday, April 17, from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m., for our next meeting of the Philosophy Club as Professor Nick Chhoeun shares his poetry with us.
Nick Chhoeun writes poetry in part as a way of embracing and fortifying his roots as a Cambodian American in the first generation born here, a generation whose parents and grandparents suffered genocidal violence under the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia before finding their way out to freedom and safety. But his poetry is also a way of offering that culture to his audience, gently empowering us to see that his roots and even the language and ways of his elders belong to us as well as part of the patrimony of our species, with a special place for the love of the Khmer.
To join the meeting online click here (you may be prompted to download the Webex app in order to join). If you have trouble joining, call Brian Skelly at 413.273.2273.
First-year writing faculty Nick Chhoeun's poetry chapbook, Learning How to Talk, was recently published by above/ground press. Nick earned his MFA in Creative Writing from American University, and his poems explore themes of identity, culture, and love through an Asian American millennial perspective. Nick's poetry also has been published in Shenandoah, Free State Review, and The Blood Pudding. In addition to teaching academic writing at the University of Hartford, he teaches courses in writing, literature, and poetry at Central Connecticut State University. When Nick is not writing and teaching, he is singing and composing with his band, Not Freshman.
An ongoing weekly tradition at the University since 2001, the University of Hartford Philosophy Club is a place where students, professors, and people from the community at large meet as peers. Sometimes presentations are given, followed by discussion. Other times, topics are hashed out by the whole group.
Presenters may be students, professors, or people from the community. Anyone can offer to present a topic. The mode of presentation may be as formal or informal as the presenter chooses.
Food and drink are served. Come and go as you wish. Bring friends. Suggest topics and activities. Take over the club! It belongs to you!