Center for Civic Engagement Presents
Author, Educator, Tattooer Phuc Tran Giving Book Talk in Honor of World Refugee Day
Friday, June 25, 2021
Online Event
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
5 PM New York l 11 PM Vienna5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College's Center for Civic Engagement, President's Office, and Alumni Affairs, along with the OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives present a talk with Bard Alum Phuc Tran in celebration of World Refugee Day.
Phuc Tran, who migrated with his family from Vietnam in 1975, has been a high school Latin teacher for more than twenty years while simultaneously establishing himself as a highly sought-after tattooer in the Northeast. Tran graduated Bard College in 1995 with a BA in Classics and received the Callanan Classics Prize. He taught Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit in New York at the Collegiate School and was an instructor at Brooklyn College’s Summer Latin Institute. Most recently, he taught Latin, Greek, and German at the Waynflete School in Portland, Maine.
Tran's 2012 TEDx talk “Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive” was featured on NPR’s Ted Radio Hour. His acclaimed memoir, SIGH, GONE: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and The Fight To Fit In, received the 2020 New England Book Award for Nonfiction. He tattoos and lives with his family in Portland, Maine.
This special event will be moderated by James Romm, James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics; Director, Classical Studies Program
Join via Zoom link.
For more information, call 845-758-6822,
or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82158442979?pwd=U2ZqRkVqWjJjRDFRMUJabkJRaUFYdz09.
Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Online Event