Dr. Gounari and Ph.D. candidate Minh Nghia Nguyen, from the Applied Linguistics Department, delivered a presentation titled “The Discourse of Necropolitics: A Critical Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Vietnam War Commemoration” at AAAL in Houston on March 18th. Their presentation involved an analysis of historical photographs featured in U.S.-published magazines, employing multimodal critical discourse analysis to examine how the Vietnam War (or the Second Indochina War or American War in Vietnam) was depicted in the United States. These images portrayed themes of life and death, celebration and despair, and the named and unnamed, clearly contrasting Vietnam with the U.S. The discussion revolved around how these contrasting images were produced and how they guided public perception.