Thuy-Trang T. Nguyen

University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States

Nguyễn T. Thuỳ-Trang is a PhD Candidate in Human Geography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, US. Nguyễn’s research engages with theories of colonialism and decoloniality, psychoanalysis, postcolonial visual culture, and world cinema. Her current dissertation examines the avant-garde psychiatric/psychotherapeutic praxis in Vietnam and Algeria post-WWII, within a broader theoretical framing of Africa-Asia connection, decoloniality, and critical social theory from the Global South. Engaging with archival materials, psychoanalysis, postcolonial visual culture, and literary works (some produced by psychiatric patients themselves), her research proposes a reconfiguration of the psychiatric asylum space by studying situated practices and encounters emerging from such space. Besides research, Nguyễn is also a practicing psychotherapist, specializing in treating traumatic stress in children and adolescents. She grew up in Vietnam.

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Presentation(s):

• Transregional Artistic Worlds I

  Friday, June 13, 2025
  09:00 - 10:45 GMT

• Africa-Asia in Music, Visual, and Performing Arts

  Friday, June 13, 2025
  16:15 - 18:00 GMT

• Afro-Asia Intimacies: A Speculative Storytelling Aesthetic in Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn’s Moving Image of the Postcolonial Space

  Friday, June 13, 2025
  16:15 - 18:00 GMT

• Experimental Films I

  Saturday, June 14, 2025
  09:00 - 13:00 GMT

• The Postcolonial Archive: Night Sky with Exit Wounds

  Saturday, June 14, 2025
  09:00 - 09:45 GMT

• Cinematic Explorations of Africa-Asia

  Saturday, June 14, 2025
  11:15 - 13:00 GMT