ANU Vietnam Studies Summer School Program 2008
Philip Taylor <philip.taylor@anu.edu.au>
date Jan 21, 2008 3:55 PM
subject [Vsg] ANU Vietnam Studies Summer School Program
Dear List Members,
For your information, below is the program for the 2008 Vietnam Studies
Graduate Summer School, which will be held at the Australian National
University next week, from Tuesday 29 January to Friday 1 February.
The presentation abstracts can be downloaded from the ANU Asia-Pacific
Week website: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/asiapacificweek/vietnam.php
Best regards,
Philip Taylor
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PROGRAM
Vietnam Studies Graduate Summer School 2008
Menzies Library, Australian National University
TUESDAY, 29 January
Session One – Vietnam’s Cultural Histories: Revolutionary, Modern,
Transnational
1. Morragotwong Phumplab
Mahidol University, Thailand
Ho Chi Minh’s Rhetoric: The Power of Language in the First Vietnamese War
of Liberation (1946-1954)
2. Rob Hurle
Australian National University
Viet Minh Propaganda During the First Indochina War
3. Alexander M. Cannon
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Reorienting the Voices in Nhac Cach Mang: Constructing Identity in
Vietnamese Revolutionary Songs
4. Martina Thucnhi Nguyen
University of California, Berkeley
Wearing Modernity: Lemur Nguyen Cat Tuong, the Press, and Fashion in Late
Colonial Vietnam
5. Lien Vu
University of California, Irvine
Constructing (Trans)Nationalist Images and Modern Visions In Viet Nam’s
Contemporary Cinema Industry
6. Nicolas Lainez
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
'La traite des Jaunes': Human Trafficking and Slavery in Indochina between
1860 and 1940
7. Ivan Victor Small
Cornell University
Cultural Imaginaries of Remittance Economies
WEDNESDAY 30 January
Session Two - Vietnam’s Institutional Transformation: Politics, Governance
and the Law
1. Diego Fossati
National University of Singapore
International NGOs and Local Governance in Rural Northern Vietnam
2. Kerstin Priwitzer
University of Freiburg, Germany
Social and Health Insurance in Vietnam: The Political Rationale of Welfare
Development
3. Anh T. Ta
Australian National University
Organizational Change: University Managers’ Perceptions
4. Toan Le Minh
La Trobe University, Melbourne
Corporate Governance of Vietnamese Listed Companies
5. Thanh Thi Kieu
Victoria University, Melbourne
Law and Practice in the Protection of Intellectual Property in Vietnam in
the International Context
THURSDAY 31 January
Session Three - Religion in Vietnam and Abroad
1. Peter Andrew Hansen
Melbourne College of Divinity
Northern Church, Southern Church: Vietnamese Catholic Micro-cultures in
the Mid-twentieth Century
2. Katie Dyt
Monash University
'A Karma which Requires More Rules': Women and the Negotiation of Gender
in the Vietnamese Monastery
3. Thien-Huong Ninh
University of Southern California
'I am Going Home': Dimensions and Trajectories in Lives of
Second-Generation Vietnamese American Caodais in Southern California
Session Four – Architecture and Cultural Heritage
1. Dinh Quoc Phuong
University of Melbourne
Hanoi’s Sense of Place: The Influences of Local Culture on Architecture
2. Trinh Hong Viet
University of Melbourne
Everyday Activities Reflect Traditional Vietnamese Architecture
3. L. Ray Fife
University of New England
Mapping Colonialism in Central Vietnam: Old Bach Ma 1930-1975
4. Ton That Quynh Du
Australian National University
The Cultural Heritage of Hue
FRIDAY 1 February
Session Five – Gender in Contemporary Vietnam
1. Philip Martin
University of Melbourne
Talk About Patriarchy! Reconsidering Male Privilege in the Vietnamese Family
2. Thuc Le
Australian National University
Vietnamese Gender Norms: Political Elites' Experiences, Beliefs and
Attitudes Toward the Issue of Gender Equality in Politics
3. Thi Kim Anh, Phung
La Trobe University, Melbourne
Local Officials and Family Violence Against Women
Session Six – Research in Focus: Places, Ecologies, Applications
1. Michael Crestani
University of Melbourne
Life Among the Scientists: an Ethnography of the Cuu Long Delta Rice
Research Institute
2. Paula Brown
Sydney University
Multiple Scales of Field Experience in Aquatic Resource Management in Vietnam
3. Sarah G. Grant
University of California, Riverside
Soluble Sustainability: Coffee Ecologies in Postcolonial Vietnam
4. Brian Thomas
Colorado State University
The Coining of Social Currency: Shaping a Vietnamese Culture of
Conservation via Nationalism, Celebrity, and Face
Concluding Discussion
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Dr Philip Taylor
Fellow, Department of Anthropology
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Australian National University
Canberra, ACT, 0200
Ph. 61-2-61252300
Email: philip.taylor@anu.edu.au
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/people/personal/taylp_ant.php