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X-WR-CALNAME:Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding: Hua Hsu
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DESCRIPTION:The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts welcomes Pulitzer Pr
 ize-winning author Hua Hsu to UGA March 21-22\, 2024 as the annual Delta V
 isiting Chair for Global Understanding. This event\, which will include a 
 reading and conversation with Ed Pavlić\, Distinguished Research Professo
 r of English\, African American studies\, and creative writing\, is part o
 f the Willson Center’s Global Georgia public event series and the UGA Hu
 manities Festival. Hsu’s visit is presented in partnership with the Inst
 itute for Asian Studies and the Georgia Review.\n\nDuring his residency Hs
 u will also visit with students at UGA and Clarke Central High School\, as
  well as participate in a public conversation on ‘zines co-hosted by the
  Georgia Review.\n\nHua Hsu is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the au
 thor of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific (2016)
  and the memoir Stay True (2022)\, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for M
 emoir or Autobiography and the 2022 National Book Critics Circle award in 
 autobiography. He is currently working on an essay collection titled Impos
 tor Syndrome. Hsu is professor of literature at Bard College.\n\nHsu is a 
 contributor to CBS News’s Sunday Morning\; serves on the governance boar
 d of Critical Minded\, a collaboration between the Ford Foundation and the
  Nathan Cummings Foundation\; and serves as judge for various literary com
 petitions and fellowships\, including the PEN America Literary Awards\, Ro
 na Jaffe Fellowship\, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He was nominated fo
 r a Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2018 (New Yorker)\; was a finalist for 
 the James Beard Award for Food Writing in 2013 (for “Wokking the Suburbs
 \,” Lucky Peach)\; and his work has been anthologized in Best Music Writ
 ing (2010 and 2012) and Best African American Essays 2010.\n\nHsu previous
 ly wrote for Artforum\, The Atlantic\, Grantland\, Slate\, and The Wire\; 
 his scholarly work has been published in American Quarterly\, Criticism\, 
 PMLA\, and Genre. He previously taught at Vassar College and was formerly 
 a fellow at the New American Foundation and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullm
 an Center at the New York Public Library. Professor Hsu’s research and a
 cademic interests include Asian American studies\, transpacific studies\, 
 critical ethnic studies\, popular culture and subculture\, and literary no
 nfiction.\n\nThe Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding\, establish
 ed by the Willson Center through the support of The Delta Air Lines Founda
 tion\, hosts outstanding artists\, writers\, socially engaged thinkers and
  cultural innovators who teach and perform research at the University of G
 eorgia. Each holder of the Delta Visiting Chair engages the Georgia commun
 ity through lectures\, seminars\, discussions and programs\; they present 
 global problems in local context\, with a focus on how the arts and humani
 ties can inform conversations on major contemporary issues.
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LOCATION:Georgia Museum of Art\, Auditorium
SUMMARY:Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding: Hua Hsu
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CATEGORIES:Lectures and Discussions
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