Symposium Program

Date: Friday, May 28, 2021
Time: 10:30 AM-6:00 PM EST
Location: Online; Register here

10:30 – 10:40 am:          Welcome and Introductions

10:40 – 11:55 am:

Opening Keynote Addresses:
Locating the Study of Vietnam in Academia and Beyond

Hue-Tam Ho Tai  Emerita, History, Harvard University
On (Not) Writing a History of Vietnam in the 21st Century

Hy Van Luong  Anthropology, University of Toronto
Childcare and Family Ideology: Local Sociocultural Dynamics, the State, and Global Forces in Contemporary Vietnam

Moderator:
Ann Marie Leshkowich  Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross

11:55 am – 12:05 pm:          10-Minute Break

12:05 pm – 1:20 pm:

Vietnamese Gender, Health, and Development

Christian Lentz  Cultural Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Arduous but Romantic”: Gender, Memory, and War

Tine Gammeltoft  Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
Chronic Conditions, Communicable Sentiments: Everyday Politics of Sympathy in Vietnam

Allen Tran  Anthropology, Bucknell University
Developing Mental Health in Ho Chi Minh City

Martha Lincoln  Anthropology, San Francisco State University
In the Republic of Health

Harriet Phinney  Anthropology and Sociology, Seattle University
Silence, Agency, and Power: Charting Futures

Moderator:
Annemarie Samuels  Anthropology, Leiden University

1:20 – 2:10 pm:          Lunch/Dinner Break

 2:10 – 3:25 pm:         

Vietnamese Material Worlds and Environmental Challenges

George Dutton  History, University of California, Los Angeles
Animals and People in the History of Viet Nam

Hoang Mai Thach  Geography, Rutgers University; University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, Vietnam
Animal Mercy Release or Rewilding Species? New Boundaries and Spaces of Environmental Conservation in Vietnam

Sarah Grant  Anthropology, California State University, Fullerton
Kơhơ Environmentalism and Regenerative Agriculture in Lâm Đồng Province

Tam Ngo  Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity; NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Bones of Contention: Situating the Dead of the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese Border War

Moderator:
Benjamin Siegel  History, Boston University

3:25 – 3:35 pm:          10-Minute Break

3:35 – 4:50 pm:         

Vietnamese Citizenship and the Politics of Remembrance

Allison Truitt  Anthropology, Tulane University
The Heritage and Freedom Flag: Displaying Vietnam’s Contested Histories

Jana Lipman History, Tulane University
In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates

Quan Tran  Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and American Studies, Yale University
Amnesiac Embrace: Resolution 36 and the Vietnamese Diaspora

Alvin Bui  History, University of Washington, Seattle
Vietnamization and Regionalization: The Hoa, the Republic of Vietnam and the Republic of China

Phuoc Duong Anthropology, California State University, Fullerton
The Political Dimension of Affect: Youth Unions as Spaces of Counter-Capitalism in Da Nang City, Vietnam

Moderator:
Robert Weller  Anthropology, Boston University

 4:50 – 5:00 pm:         10-Minute Break

5:00 – 5:35 pm:

Closing Keynote Addresses:
Retrospections: Moving Vietnam Studies Sideways

Christina Schwenkel  Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
Charles Keith  History, Michigan State University

5:35 – 6:00 pm:          Open Discussion