Yale Vietnamese Studies Group 2003-2004
Co-Directors:
Lien-Hang Nguyen and Charles Keith


Undergraduate Moderator:
Hong Alyce Van

January 27
"Ho Chi Minh in Power: What We Know and What We
Don't Know"

Sophie Quinn Judge
, author.

March 29

"State Formation and Arrested Development in Indonesia and Vietnam"
Tuong Vu
Mendenhall Fellow, Department of Government, Smith College;
Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of California- Berkeley
(Co-sponsored with Indonesia Forum)


April 7 (Wednesday)
"Beyond the 'Colonized' and the 'Colonizer': Intra-Asian Debates on the Reality of Colonial Legal Categories in French Indochina (1887-1954)"
Christopher Goscha
, Asst Professor of History, University Lyon II

April 23, 12: P..M. - 5:00 P.M.(Friday)
STATE OF THE FIELD OF VIETNAM STUDIES: WORKSHOP WITH PETER ZINOMAN
Keynote talk: 12:00 Noon:
"Urban Modernity in Colonial Vietnam: Vu Trong Phung Views the City"

Peter Zinoman, Associate Professor
Departments of History and Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley

1:45-3:15 Session 1: Discussion of Zinoman, "Colonial Bastille: a history of imprisonment in Vietnam, 1962-1940" (Berkeley, 2001) - Introduction, Chapts 1,2,4.

3:30-5:00 Session II: Discussion of research, Participant dissertation abstracts and research summaries

6:45 Dinner