Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars Conference, University of Kentucky, October 10-13, 2007
Nguyen, Lien-Hang" <lnguy2@email.uky.edu>
date Oct 3, 2007 8:23 AM
subject [VSG]: Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars Conference at the University of Kentucky
Hello,
If any VSGers find themselves in the Blue Grass in mid-Oct, please come to the conference below.
Yours,
Hang
Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars Conference
University of Kentucky
October 10-13, 2007
WEDNESDAY, October 10
7:00pm-9:00pm (106 Class Room Building)
Vietnam Lessons and Iraq Parallels: Reflections by Vietnam Veterans
-Robert Topmiller, Historian
-Phil Desimone, Physician
-Henry Watson, Attorney
-Peter Berres, Educator
-Charlie ONeil, Psychologist
THURSDAY, October 11
11:00am-12:30pm (Young Library Auditorium)
Student Session with George Stanley McGovern on Watergate
7:00pm-9:00pm (Memorial Hall)
Public Address by George Stanley McGovern on the Iraq War and Legacy of Vietnam co-sponsored by Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center
-Opening comments by Kumble R. Subbaswamy, Provost
-Introduction: Tracy Campbell, Department of History
FRIDAY, October 12
(Events will take place in 230 Student Center unless otherwise noted)
8:00am-9:00am: Breakfast with Opening Remarks:
-Steven L. Hoch, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
-Francie Chassen-Lopez, Chair, Department of History
-Wm. Roger Louis, Chair, National History Center
9:00am-10:30am: Panel I: Introduction to the Volume
-Susan Ferber, Oxford University Press
-Marilyn Young, New York University
-Mark Bradley, University of Chicago
10:30am-10:45am: Coffee Break
10:45am-12:15pm: Panel II: US Policy during the French War and Its
Aftermath
-Mark Lawrence, University of Texas Austin: The United States and the French
War, 1945-1954
-Seth Jacobs, Boston College: "No Place to Fight a War": Laos and the
Evolution of U.S. Policy Toward Vietnam, 1954-1963
12:15pm-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm-3:00pm: Panel III: North and South Vietnamese Perspectives
-Edward Miller, Dartmouth College: Vision, Power and Agency: The Ascent of
Ngo Dinh Diem, 1945-1954
-Sophie Quinn-Judge, Temple University: Through a Glass Darkly: Reading the
History of the Vietnamese Communist Party, 1945-1975
3:00pm-3:15pm: Coffee Break
3:15pm-4:45pm: Panel IV: Revisiting the American Decision for War
-Gareth Porter, Environmental and Energy Study Institute: Explaining the
Vietnam War: Dominant and Contending Paradigms"
-Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University: "There Ain't No Daylight": Lyndon
Johnson and the Politics of Escalation
5:00pm-7:00pm: Asia Center/The War That Never Ends Reception co-sponsored by Asia Center, University Press of Kentucky, Morehead State University, and Eastern Kentucky University
(Lexmark Room, Main Building)
-Informal Remarks by George Herring, Emeritus
-Book Signing: David Anderson and John Ernst, eds., The War That Never Ends
(Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2007).
SATURDAY, October 13
(Room 230 Student Center)
8:00am-9:00am: Breakfast
9:00am-10:30am: Panel V: Microhistories of the Vietnamese War
-David Hunt, University of Massachusetts Boston: Taking Notice of the
Everyday
-Heonik Kwon, University of Edinburgh: Co So Cach Mang and the Social
Network of War
10:30am-10:45am: Coffee Break
10:45am-12:15pm: Panel VI: The End of the American War
-Lien-Hang T. Nguyen: Cold War Contradictions: Toward an International
History of the Second Indochina War, 1969-1973
-Michael Allen, North Carolina State University: "Help Us Tell the Truth
about Vietnam": POW/MIA Politics and the End of the American War
12:30-2:00pm: Closing Luncheon Address
-David Elliott, Pomona College: Official History, Revisionist History and
Wild History
Sponsors:
University of Kentucky: College of Arts & Sciences; Office of the Provost;
Office of the Vice President for Research; Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center; Asia
Center; Department of History
University Press of Kentucky; Morehead State University, Department of Geography, Government, and History; Eastern Kentucky University, Department of History