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Center for
Southeast Asia Studies
UC Berkeley Graduate Conference on Vietnamese
Studies
February 9 - 10, 2007
The Center for Southeast Asia Studies is hosting a graduate student conference at Berkeley from February 9 - 10, 2007. The conference is intended to provide an opportunity for young scholars to share their research with their peers and with faculty involved in the field of Vietnamese Studies.
Keynote address by Prof. Alexander Woodside (University of British Columbia)
PROGRAM
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DAY
1 - Friday, FEB 9
Location: Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220
Stephens Hall
8:35 - 8:45 a.m.
Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:45 - 10:30 a.m.
PANEL I: Politics of Urban and Rural Change in Late Socialist Vietnam
"The Blurred Boundaries of Voluntary and Involuntary Resettlement:
The Case of Cat Tien National Park in Vietnam"
Jason Morris-Jung,
UC Berkeley (presenter) & Robin Roth, York University
"Disruptions of a Dialectic and a Stereotypical Response: The Case
of the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Industry"
Jamie Gillen,
University of Colorado
"Ho Chi Minh City's Emerging Middle Classes, Global Youth Culture
and the Possibilities of Post-Socialism"
Catherine Earl, Victoria
University
"Commodification of Governance: Music Production in Vietnam"
Nhu-Ngoc Ong, UC Irvine
Discussant: Marguerite Nguyen, UC Berkeley
10:45 - 12:10 p.m.
PANEL II: The Vietnam-China Interface: New Perspectives, Old Questions
"The Bach Viet and Vietnam's 'Place' in Larger Regional Groupings"
Michael Churchman, Australian National University
"Marginalizing Practices: Bureaucracy, Ethnography, and Becoming Chinese in Colonial Vietnam"
Trung Nguyen, University of Wisconsin
"Sinicization and Syllable Structure in Vietnamese"
John Duong Phan, Cornell University
Discussant: Charles Wheeler, UC Irvine
1:45 - 3:10 p.m.
PANEL III: Religious Pluralism: World Traditions and Local Practices
"Tradition, Renovation, New Religious Movements: A Triptych of Vietnamese Religious Pluralism in Cambodia during the First Half of the Twentieth Century"
Pascal Bourdeaux, Ecoles Pratique des Hautes Etudes
"The Occult Religion of the Ly Court"
Minh Huynh Tran, CSU Long Beach
"'And I Will Build For Thee a Great Nation': The First Vietnamese Bishops, Popular Culture and Politics in Colonial Vietnamese Catholicism"
Charles Keith, Yale University
Discussant: TBA
3:20 - 4:50 p.m.
PANEL IV: Self, Place, and Space: Narrating Past and Present in and beyond Vietnam
"Reading Hanoi's Sense of Place: Local Culture and Hyper-space/tradition"
Dinh Quoc Phuong, University of Melbourne
"Kieu in Redux : The Poetics of Narrative, the Immigrant Imaginary and the Articulation of Vietnamese Transnational Womanhood"
Cam Vu, University of Southern California
"The Past is a Distant Colony"
Hong-An Truong, University of California, Irvine
Discussant: Mariam Beevi Lam, UC Riverside
5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: "Vietnam: The Adventures and Misadventures of Global
Theory"
Alexander Woodside, Professor Emeritus of History, University
of British Columbia
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