Vietnam at Asian Studies Conference, Canberra June 04
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:03:59 +1000
From: Philip Taylor <Philip.Taylor@anu.edu.au>
Reply-To: vsg@u.washington.edu
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Vietnam at Asian Studies Conference, Canberra June 04
Dear VSG List,
Here is a list of the papers and panels relating to Vietnam to be presented at the forthcoming Asian Studies Association of Australia Conference, National Convention Centre, Canberra, 29 June - 2 July 2004.
Individual Papers:
1 Politics of the Shareholding System: China and Vietnam (Young Ju Kwon, University of Sydney)
2 A Socio-cultural Perspective on Contemporary Vietnamese Youth Culture and the Issue of Identity (Huong Le Le, RMIT University)
3 Cold Food and Warm Flesh: Vietnamese Translocalities in Singapore (Ashley Carruthers, Australian National University)
4 Labour Control in the Rubber Industry of Colonial Vietnam (Andrew Wells, University of Wollongong)
5 Hero Worship Versus Spirit Possession: The Dilemma of the State's Religious Policy in Vietnam (Pham Quynh Phuong, La Trobe University)
6 Constructing a Vietnamese Language Proficiency Rating Scale for the Speakers of Other Languages: The Case of Japanese vs Australian Students (Thai Duy Bao, Australian National University)
7 Work and Family Roles of Women in Hochiminh City in the market economy (Phi Phuong Tran, University of South Australia)
8 A Comparison of Models of Administrative Adjudication Bodies in Australia, Vietnam and China (Quang Nguyen, La Trobe University)
9 Changing Research Spaces: Doing Human Geography Fieldwork in Viet Nam (Kate Lloyd, Macquarie University, Fiona Miller, Macquarie University, Steffanie Scott, University of Waterloo)
Panels:
1. Colonial and Post-colonial Vietnam: Narratives and Histories (Anne-Marie Medcalf, Murdoch University)
The Archives' Tales: Gender, Class and Colonial Migration Practices in Vietnam, 1863-1920 (Anne-Marie Medcalf, Murdoch University) The Artist as Historian? Pierre Schoendoerffer and the Wars in Vietnam, 1945-1975 (Katharine Thornton, University of Adelaide)
Eurasian/ Amerasian Perspectives: Kim Lefèvre's Métisse blanche and Kieu Nguyen's The Unwanted (Nathalie Nguyen, University of Adelaide)
2. Nineteenth-Century Chinese on Southeast Asia's 'Water Frontier' (Li Tana and Nola Cooke, Australian National University)
The Water Frontier: An Introduction (Li Tana, Australian National University)
The Straits, Saigon and China: Teasing out the 19th Century Hokkien Network (Carl Trocki Queensland University of Technology)
The Junk Trade and Sino-Vietnamese Commodity Production in Eastern Cambodia, 1850s-1880s (Nola Cooke Australian National University) Trafficking in Women and Children: French Reports on Chinese Activities in Haiphong, 1880s-1930s (Julia Martinez University of Wollongong)
Discussant: Anthony Reid (Asia Research Institute, Singapore)
3. Expectations and Transactions: Aspects of Pre-Colonial Catholicism in Cochinchina and Greater Maluku (Jacob Ramsay, Australian National University)
The Domestication of Catholicism in 17th and 18th Century Nguyen Cochinchina (Nola Cooke, Australian National University)
Vietnamese Priests and French Missionaries in Late Pre-colonial Cochinchina (Jacob Ramsay, Australian National University)
Book launch:
Goddess on the Rise: Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam. University of Hawaii Press 2004
Philip Taylor (Australian National University)
15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) National Convention Centre, Canberra 29 June - 2 July 2004 Conference Website: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ASAA/conference/
Philip Taylor
Department of Anthropology
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Phone: +61-2-612 52300
Fax: +61-2-612 54896