Conference on colonial Viet Nam, UW-Seattle
From: Christoph Giebel
To: vsg@u.washington.edu
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Subject: [Vsg] Conference on colonial Viet Nam, UW-Seattle
Sorry about the re-post, but earlier I had inadvertently left out some information at the end of the message. CG
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The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle (USA), announces the conference-workshop
BEYOND TELEOLOGIES: ALTERNATIVE VOICES & HISTORIES IN COLONIAL VIET NAM
Conference dates: March 1-2, 2007
University of Washington - Seattle
Suzzallo/Allen Library, Petersen Room
Keynote address by Patricia Pelley,
award-winning author of “Postcolonial Vietnam: new histories of the national past” (2002)
This is the first conference-workshop of a multi-year research initiative in Viet Nam Studies,
"Alternative Voices and Histories in Viet Nam: Colonial Modernities and Post-colonial Narratives."
Aimed at highlighting new interpretations of Vietnamese history and historiography, the Beyond Teleologies conference-workshop addresses the broad themes of alternative voices and counter-histories for the period of French colonial rule, as well as the first phase of the Franco-Viet Minh war. Moving beyond the ideological demands of colonialism, traditionalism, and nationalism (including revolutionary nationalism), it seeks to re-evaluate various political, social and cultural movements and phenomena of the colonial era within their particular contexts and meanings. Using such topics as physical bodies, food, fashion, travel, advertising, performance arts and literature, as well as religious activities, social identities and political organizations, the papers at the Beyond Teleologies conference-workshop challenge existing historiographies, engage social and intellectual histories that illuminate mentalites and investigate the symbolic order and semantics of colonial power.
Organizers are Christoph Giebel, Assoc. Prof. of International Studies and History, giebel@u.washington.edu , and Judith Henchy, Head, Southeast Asia Section, Univ. of Washington Libraries, and Lecturer in International Studies, judithh@u.washington.edu .
http://jsis.washington.edu/seac/calendar.shtml
Support from the following University of Washington sponsors is gratefully acknowledged: the Southeast Asia Center, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Department of History, the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, and the University of Washington Libraries.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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Thursday, March 1, 2007
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Univ. of Washington Suzzallo/Allen Library, Petersen Room
1:00 Opening remarks, Christoph Giebel and Judith Henchy, UW-Seattle
1:30 - 5:15 PANEL 1: COUNTER-NARRATIVES
Bradley Davis, Univ. of Washington-Seattle
"Subversive Technology: Chinese Bandits, Telegraphs, and the Plot to Overthrow the Qing Empire from French Tonkin, 1891-1924"
Comments by Paul Sager, NYU
David Del Testa, Bucknell University
"Forgotten Stories of Deviance: Vietnam’s Colonial-era Railroad Workers and the Construction of a Revolutionary Heritage"
Comments by Bradley Davis, UW-Seattle
Paul Sager, New York University
"'Proletarian' Solidarity inside the Colonial State: Franco-Vietnamese Civil Service Unionism, 1935-1940 and 1947-1950"
Comments by David Del Testa, Bucknell
Gerard Sasges, Univ. of California-Berkeley / Univ. of California Education Abroad Program Viet Nam Study Center
"'Indigenous representation is hostile to all monopolies': Pham Quynh and the end of the alcohol monopoly in colonial Viet Nam"
Comments by Sarah Whitney Womack, UV
Sarah Whitney Womack, Univ. of Virginia
"Beyond Resistance, Before the Revolution: Towards a History of Failure for the Many Vietnams"
Comments by Gerard Sasges, UC-Berkeley
Janet Hoskins, Univ. of Southern California
"A Religious Vision of the Nation and Its Pantheon: Caodaist Perspectives on Decolonizing French Indochina"
Comments by Pascal Bourdeaux, Paris Sorbonne
Pascal Bourdeaux, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Sorbonne
"Interpretative essay on the 'Hoa H a o Revolution'"
Comments by Janet Hoskins, USC
5:45 - 6:45 Dinner-time reception -- Smith Room, Suzzallo Library
7:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS -- Kane Hall 210
Introductory remarks, Christoph Giebel and Judith Henchy, UW-Seattle
Keynote address, Patricia Pelley, Texas Tech University
"Twentieth-Century Centricities: Reflections on the Field of Vietnamese Studies"
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Friday, March 2, 2007
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Univ. of Washington Suzzallo/Allen Library, Petersen Room
8:45 - 12:30 PANEL 2: COLONIAL MODERNITIES AND REPRESENTATIONS
Philippe Peycam, Center for Khmer Studies
"From the Social to the Political: 1920s Colonial Saigon as a Space of Possibilities in Vietnamese Consciousness"
Comments by Pham Hong Tung, VNU, Ha Noi
George Dutton, UCLA
"Advertising Modernity in the Vietnamese Colonial Newspaper"
Comments by Nguyen Thi Phuong Chi, Journal "Nghien Cuu Lich Su"
Judith Henchy, Univ. of Washington-Seattle
"Contesting Historicisms: Teleology, Aesthetics and Dialectical Thinking in 1930s Viet Nam"
Comments by Philippe Peycam, Center for Khmer Studies, Inc.
Caroline Herbelin, Centre de Recherche sur l’Extreme-Orient, Paris IV Sorbonne
"Architects of the fine Art school of Indochina: the question of modernity in Vietnamese architecture"
Comments by Hazel Hahn, Seattle University
Hazel Hahn, Seattle University
"Ambiguous Modernism: Politics of the Municipal Council and the Urban Planning of Hanoi, 1935-43"
Comments by Caroline Herbelin, Paris IV Sorbonne
Pham Hong Tung, Viet Nam National University, Ha Noi
"Presentation and Interpretation of Colonial History in Vietnamese and French History Textbooks"
Comments by Judith Henchy, UW-Seattle
Nguyen Thi Phuong Chi, Journal "Nghien Cuu Lich Su"
"Main Research Orientation of Vietnamese Historians Presented in the Journal 'Nghien Cuu Lich Su'"
Comments by George Dutton, UCLA
1:45 - 5:30 PANEL 3: BODIES AND THEIR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS
Liam C. Kelley, Univ. of Hawai’i-Manoa
"Divine Lord Wenchang Meets Great King Tran: Spirit Writing in Late-Imperial/Colonial Vietnam"
Comments by Micheline Lessard, Univ. of Ottawa
Trung Nguyen, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
"Marginalizing Practices: Bureaucracy, Ethnography, and Becoming Chinese in Colonial Vietnam"
Comments by Liam C. Kelley, UH-Manoa
Micheline Lessard, Univ. of Ottawa
"'This Ignoble Traffic': The Trade in Vietnamese Women and Children During the Period of French Colonial Rule, 1885-1945"
Comments by Trung Nguyen, UW-Madison
Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University
"The Implications of Gia Truy e n: Social Class within the Healing Community in Vietnam"
Comments by Peter Zinoman, UC-Berkeley
Peter Zinoman, Univ. of California-Berkeley
"From Political Metaphor to Social Problem: Deviant Sexuality in the Writing of Vu Trong Phung"
Comments by Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University
Erica J. Peters, Independent Scholar, Mountain View, CA
"Culinary Controversies in Colonial Cochinchina"
Comments by Shawn McHale, GWU
Shawn McHale, George Washington University
“Cannibalism and Race Transformation in a Mekong Delta at War, 1945-54”
Comments by Erica J. Peters, Independent Scholar
5:45 DOCUMENTARY SCREENING -- Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Room 220
Janet Hoskins, Univ. of Southern California
Documentary film on Caodaism (ca. 50 minutes)
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INFORMATION FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE ON MARCH 1+2:
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REGISTRATION
No registration is required. There is no attendance fee. All events on March 1 and 2 are open to the public.
HOTEL
The Southeast Asia Center has secured a discount rate at the Hotel Deca, 4507 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105, a short walk to/from campus. The guaranteed room rate is $129/night (plus 15.6% tax). Reservations can be made at 1-800-899-0251. Please refer to the "Viet Nam Workshop" for the discount rate. A credit card will be required to hold the room.
TRAVEL FROM SEA-TAC AIRPORT
Taxis from SeaTac Airport to the University of Washington will cost about $40 - $45. The suggested taxi drop-off point is at the western campus gate of the University at 15th Ave. NE and NE 40th St. The little gate house will have campus maps and can provide walking directions to Suzzallo/Allen Library.
Alternatives to taxis are the Airport Shuttle Express and public buses.
The Shuttle can be found in the garage area outside the airport terminal (follow signs to Ground Transportation). It is on the same level as the arrival hall, but you have to go up one level to cross the sky bridge and down the escalator. The Shuttle costs about $23 to the University District. It is not a bad option if you have heavy luggage, but can be quite slow since it stops off at a number of hotels and private residences en route.
The public bus system provides the cheapest but also the slowest transportation to the University District. At the airport, follow signs to the bus stops at the far south end of the terminal. Take the #194 Express bus to "Seattle" (make sure not to take the #194 in the opposite direction, the bus bays are next to one another). Fare should be $1.50 (exact fare only); be sure to get a transfer from the driver. Get off the #194 at Virginia St. (at the northern end of downtown Seattle). On Virginia, find a bus stop for either #71, #72, or #73, all of them Express busses to the University. For campus, get off at Campus Parkway, about a block from the western campus gate. For the hotel, continue on the bus until NE 45th St., then turn left and walk one block on 45th (downhill) to Brooklyn. (You'll have to show your transfer to the driver as you leave the bus.)