[ndlr] Le renouveau des études sur l’expérience républicaine au Sud Viêt-Nam se poursuit. Annonce d’un important colloque sur la construction de l’État-nation au Sud entre 1955 et 1975 (co-organisé par le Centre des Études de l’Asie du Sud Est de l’Université de Berkeley, Californie et le Journal of Vietnamese Studies).

 

Nation-Building in War: The Experience of Republican Vietnam, 1955-1975

Conference/Symposium

October 17 | 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

October 18 | 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

180 Doe Library

★ ★ ★

Sponsor: Center for Southeast Asia Studies

This symposium is about the experience of nation-building in Republican Vietnam during 1949-1975. During this period, many Vietnamese sought a non-communist future for their country with the support of the United States. Over more than two decades, these men and women worked together toward that goal as much as fought against each other over differences in visions and policies. This took place within the broader context of large-scale military conflicts (the civil war between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and the Cold War between the superpowers).

Scholarship on the subject has focused mostly on that broader context of warfare while overlooking the project of nation-building carried out by South Vietnamese. In fact, much more took place in politics, society, culture, and the economy than in the military realm. Another bias of scholarship is its obsession with external intervention and its corresponding neglect of Vietnamese agency. While the U.S. played a crucial role in the viability of South Vietnam as an independent entity, South Vietnamese efforts have not been fully appreciated.

This symposium hopes to document and analyze such Vietnamese efforts in both military and other areas of nation-building by presenting panels of South Vietnamese officials, politicians, academics, and journalists who were active participants in historical developments, paired with panels of young scholars who will be asked to place the testimonies of participants in their contexts and to evaluate their significance.

Organizers: Peter Zinoman, Professor of History, UC Berkeley; Tuong Vu, Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon

Participants

• Col. Trần Minh Công, Commandant of RVN Police Academy
• Nguyễn Đức Cường, Minister of Trade and Industry
• Kiều Chinh, Actress
• Huỳnh Văn Lang, Director of Foreign Exchange Agency and secretary of the Can Lao Party’s Joint North-South branch, founder of Bách Khoa Review and the Association for the Development of Popular Culture
• Phạm Kim Ngọc, Minister of Economy
• Hoàng Đức Nhã, Presidential Advisor and Minister of Mass Mobilization and Open Arms
• Nhã Ca, Writer
• Dr. Nguyễn Hữu Phước, National Director of Elementary Teacher Training & In-Service Training, Ministry of Education
• Lt. Col. Bùi Quyền, Deputy Commander, Third Airborne Brigade
• Dr. Võ Kim Sơn, Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Saigon
• Cao Văn Thân, Minister of Land Reform and Agricultural Development
• Vũ Quốc Thúc, Central Bank Governor and Minister of Reconstruction and Development
• Vũ Thanh Thủy, War Correspondent
• Phạm Trần, Journalist
• Lâm Lễ Trinh, Minister of Interior and Ambassador

• Sean Fear, Postdoctoral Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security, Dartmouth College
• Kevin Li, Ph.D. candidate, History, UC Berkeley
• Ryan Nelson, Ph.D. candidate, History, UC Berkeley
• Huong Nguyen, Ph.D. candidate, History, University of Washington
• Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen, Associate Professor of Australian Studies, Monash University
• Van Nguyen-Marshall, Associate Professor of History, Trent University (Canada)
• John Schafer, Emeritus Professor of English, Humboldt State University
• Simon Toner, Postdoctoral Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies, Columbia University
• Nu-Anh Tran, Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut
• Alex-Thai Dinh Vo, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University
• Tuong Vu, Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
• Peter Zinoman, Professor of History, UC Berkeley

The program of October 18 includes a book launch from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m., by Prof. Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen (Monash University), who will discuss her new book South Vietnamese Soldiers: Memories of the Vietnam War and After (2016)

Event Contact: CA, cseas@berkeley.edu, 510-642-3609

[Programme des deux journées à télécharger]

Document (PDF): CSEAS Vietnam Program UPDATE

Source : CSEAS

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