Join us for a talk by oral historian Betsy Brody as she discusses her oral history project that documents the Vietnamese refugees who arrived in North Texas following the fall of Saigon in April 1975. She will be joined by photographer Byrd Williams IV who collaborated with Brody to create portraits of each of the narrators. Event is free and open to the public.
Schedule of Events:
(Location – McCord Auditorium, 3rd Floor of
Dallas Hall at SMU)
6:00pm – Reception featuring food and drink from 7Leaves
Café and Ngon Vietnamese Kitchen
6:30pm – Talk (including Q&A with oral historian Betsy
Brody and photograph Byrd Williams)
7:30pm – Exhibition opens – join us to walk through the
photograph exhibition
Parking
Any SMU student, faculty or staff with a valid permit may
park anywhere on campus after 5:00pm. For this event, we recommend the Q lot
behind Dallas Hall.
For our guests, there are several parking options listed
below:
- Paid on-campus parking
options.
- You can find the
visitor parking map here.
- SMU has metered parking
across campus (rate $3.00/hour – meter in effect until 7pm)
- You can pay to park at
Moody and Binkley Parking Garages ($10 flat daily rate)
- Other parking
alternatives
- There are time-limited
parallel parking spaces along Hillcrest near the SMU campus.
- You can avail free
parking at Mockingbird Station and take the SMU Red Express to Campus
(440). You can find the map and schedule here.
- Dallas Hall is a short
walk from Snider Plaza.