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Center for
Southeast Asia Studies
UC Berkeley Graduate Conference on Vietnamese
Studies
February 9 - 10, 2007
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DAY 2 - Saturday, FEB 10
Location: IEAS Conference Room, 6th floor, 2223 Fulton St. (at Kittredge)
9:00 - 10:45 a.m.
PANEL V: Identity Constructions and Transformations in the Indochina Wars
"Unearthing Vietnam: Archeology and Nation Building in Communist Viet Nam"
Haydon L. Cherry, Yale University
"From the Foreign Legion to the Viet Minh: Emil Selhofer, a Swiss Crossover in the First Indochina War"
An Lac Truong Dinh, University of Basel
"From Bangkok to Bear Cat: The Winding Road for Thai Expeditionary Forces to Vietnam"
Sutayut Osornprasop, University of Cambridge
"The Kiem Thao and the Uses of Disposable Time in the American War in Vietnam"
Duy Lap Nguyen, University of California, Irvine
Discussant: Tuong Vu, Naval Postgraduate School
11:00 - 12:25 p.m.
PANEL VI: Nineteenth Century Vietnam in Retrospect: Textual Legitimacy and Repositioning the Past
"How to Shoot a Gun: Hoang Ke Viem and the Plot to Save Dai Nam, 1869-1887"
Bradley Davis, University of Washington
"The Scholar-Recluse as Cultural Consanguinity or Invented Tradition?: Nguyen Dynasty Literati's Reconstructions of Vietnam's Literary Past"
Jason Hoai Tran, Cornell University
"The Nam tien as an Expression of Southern Regionalism in Vietnamese History"
Claudine Ang Tsu Lyn, Cornell University
Discussant: Alexander Woodside, Professor Emeritus of History, University of British Columbia
1:30 - 2:55 p.m.
PANEL VII: Redefining the Feminine: Gender/Identity Explorations Past and Present
"Fleshing the Shadows: Contesting Gender Roles in the Vietnam War (1945-1975)"
Thu Anh Vu, University of Northern British Columbia
"How the Gun became her Husband: Understanding Revolutionary Mobilization through Women's Memoirs"
Natalie Porter, University of Wisconsin
"Friendship, Family, and Feminism: Transnational Feminist Analyses of the Lives of Vietnamese Les in Hanoi and Saigon"
Natalie Newton, University of California, Irvine
Discussant: Penny Edwards, UC Berkeley
3:05 - 4:30 p.m.
PANEL VIII: Biopolitics and the Thresholds of Modernity
"French-educated Midwives and the Medicalization of Childbirth in Colonial Viet Nam (1900-1940)"
Thuy-Linh Nguyen, University of Pennsylvania
"Highland Stories: Poverty, Drugs, and Rehabilitation Options in Northern Vietnam"
Nathalie Miller, UNESCO Fellow-Vietnam
"Migration, Modernity and Manhood: What Shape Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Late Socialist Vietnam?"
Le Minh Giang, Columbia University
Discussant: Alfred Montoya, UC Berkeley
4:40 - 6:05 p.m.
PANEL IX: The Implications of Ethnicity: Collapsing State Policies and Social Practices
"Vietnamese Engagement with Tamil Migrants in Colonial Indochina"
Natasha Pairaudeau, SOAS, University Of London
"Protestant Conversion, Social Relations, and the Dilemma of the Hmong in Contemporary Vietnam"
Ngo Thi Thanh Tam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
"Homogenizing (and Inventing) the Vietnamese Nation: The Communist Party Ethnic Policy towards Montagnard Minorities from 1975 to 1986"
Céline Marangé, Sciences Po (Paris); Fox Fellow, Yale University
Discussant: Peter Zinoman, UC Berkeley
6:05 - 6:15 p.m.
Closing remarks
Conference Organizing Committee: Trang Cao,
Rebekah Collins, Va Cun, Jake Devine, Chi Ha, Alec Holcombe, Alfred
Montoya, Jason Picard, Nu-Anh Tran
Funding support provided by the Larry L. Hillblom Foundation
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