Lan Duong is completing her book entitled, Treacherous Subjects: Gender and Culture in Viet Nam and the Diaspora (forthcoming, Temple University Press).  In the past year, she has co-organized two major conferences at UC Riverside. Co-organized with Professors Tamara Ho (Women’s Studies) and Justin McDaniel (Religious Studies), “The Supernatural and Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference” drew many attendees from the academic community at UC Riverside and beyond.  In May 2009, Dr. Duong also co-organized a conference and art exhibit with Professors Christina Schwenkel and David Biggs on Agent Orange.  “Agent Orange: Landscape, Body, Image” was a successful event that garnered international coverage in Vietnamese newspapers as well as on national radio.  Lan Duong’s publication on Trinh Minh-Ha’s film Surname Viet, Given Name Nam can be found in a forthcoming issue in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.  She has recently given talks on Vietnamese and diasporic Vietnamese cinemas.  At the Western Conference for Asian Studies in Arizona this month, her presentation dealt with maternal ghosts in the works of Vietnamese American female filmmakers.  Dr. Duong is also heavily involved in community arts organizing; she is a Board Member for the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) and the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN).  With Professor Mariam Lam (Comparative Literature), she is also working on an anthology on the writings and art of Southeast Asian women in the diaspora.