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Colloque IAO – Esthétiques des modes d’autorité : culture matérielle et scénographie du pouvoir en Asie orientale (XVIIIe-XXIe siècles) – 1er et 2 juin 2023

Colloque de l’IAO à l’occasion des trente ans d’existence de l’Intitut. Programme ci-après.


L’objectif de ces deux journées d’étude est de proposer une réflexion globale à propos des modalités selon lesquelles l’autorité se légitime et se donne à voir au sein de l’ensemble de l’aire constituée par l’Asie Orientale. À cet effet, seront analysés divers marqueurs (vêtements, cérémonies, drapeaux, musées, films, musiques, tableaux, etc.) qui viennent illustrer ou compléter les expressions habituelles du politique (écrits, discours, etc.) depuis le niveau local jusqu’à celui de l’État-nation.

Cette rencontre vise ainsi à identifier la constitution, l’évolution et la mise en scène de ces symboles nationaux et/ou régionaux, ainsi qu’à repérer les circulations infra et extra asiatiques ayant inspiré ces grammaires non écrites du pouvoir.

Jeudi 1er juin

9h-9h30 Accueil, mots de bienvenue
Claude Chevaleyre (CNRS – IAO), Directeur adjoint de l’IAO

9h30-11h30 Langage vestimentaire du pouvoir
Président de séance : Jérémy Jammes

 Rémy Madinier (CNRS, IAO) – De la jubbah de Diponegoro au baju muslim de Jokowi : les usages politiques du vêtement en Indonésie

Assez tôt réglementé par un colonisateur avide de classifications ethniques et régionales, le vêtement a très tôt dit beaucoup du rapport à l’autorité dans les Indes néerlandaises. Procédant dans un premier temps d’une appropriation sélective de la culture matérielle coloniale puis d’un retournement de son esthétique, le nationalisme indonésien s’est progressivement construit une identité vestimentaire dépassant l’apartheid des apparences imposé par les Hollandais. À partir des années 1920, le costume national se fixe progressivement autour d’un accessoire masculin, la Peci. Après l’indépendance, cette toque de velours noire demeurera un invariant du vêtement présidentiel, accompagné, selon les périodes, de références militaires, populaires ou islamiques.

 Samia Kotele (IAO) – Historicité du genre en Indonésie : quand l’autorité des modes esthétiques dit le pouvoir (début xxe siècle à nos jours)

La chute du régime autoritaire de Soeharto ainsi que l’islamisation croissante des corps dans l’espace public en Indonésie ont suscité l’intérêt de nombreux chercheurs. L’analyse de ces phénomènes esthétiques à travers le prisme des compatibilités ou dichotomies opposant « l’Orient » à « l’Occident » tend à survoler l’histoire du corps féminin discipliné. Les objets de la culture matérielle constituent une ressource précieuse pour étudier l’autorité des normes esthétiques. Produits d’accoutumances ou d’hybridations culturelles, ces modes esthétiques et leur reconnaissance sociale laissent apparaître non seulement l’historicité du genre mais également du pouvoir. Le vêtement apparaît comme un marqueur central de l’autorité. À cet égard, la différenciation entre colons et indigènes se pense en premier lieu par l’inscription de l’altérité dans les systèmes esthétiques. L’imposition de la blouse pour couvrir la poitrine des femmes balinaises s’inscrivait par exemple dans le rôle civilisationnel du colonisateur. Lors de l’indépendance, les codifications de l’uniforme des épouses des dirigeants firent du corps féminin l’ultime symbole de la nation, attribuant aux femmes le rôle de « reproductrices biologiques de la nation ». Les différents projets politiques s’inscrivent ainsi dans les modes esthétiques où les normes de beauté expriment différentes loyautés nationales, confessionnelles, culturelles permettant ainsi de tracer les frontières entre le « nous » et l’« autre ». À travers une étude de la culture matérielle, nous aborderons dans une approche historique à la fois le hiatus entre les discours et les pratiques des modes esthétiques du corps féminin, et les formes de réappropriation à l’œuvre.

10h45-11h Pause-café

 Emmanuel Lincot (Institut catholique de Paris, IRIS) – Langage vestimentaire et langage des corps en Chine, depuis le mouvement du 4 mai 1919 jusqu’à nos jours : sémiologie des formes et symbolique du pouvoir

Comment est-on successivement passé, en un siècle, de la robe du lettré au costume cravate, à la robe qipao puis à l’uniformité unisexe du costume Mao ? Que nous dit Jiang Zemin en arborant une veste en soie se réclamant d’une tradition qui n’en est pas moins totalement réinventée à l’occasion du sommet de l’APEC en 2001 ? Que nous disent les choix de ces signes, dans la posture des corps comme dans la virilité du discours, ou dans le rapport au monde et à l’histoire ? Loin de relever de l’anecdote, c’est une histoire culturelle et une anthropologie du pouvoir qu’il nous reste à écrire par ce biais pour comprendre les mutations de la société chinoise durant près d’un siècle.

 Déjeuner

14h00-15h00 Visite des collections de l’IAO

15h00-15h15 Pause-café

15h15-16h30  Propagande filmique
Président de séance : Arnaud Nanta

Corrado Néri (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) – Le drapeau et la légitimité : les superproductions filmiques chinoises entre propagande et spectacle

En Chine, comme ailleurs, le cinéma raconte des histoires ; principalement. Il existe, il est vrai, des fenêtres ouvertes sur d’autres horizons, à savoir le cinéma expérimental, d’avant-garde, de recherche – des choix qui se concentrent sur les spécificités du médium, comme le montage ou les visuels, et qui recherchent des sens et des affects au-delà (avant ou après ou entre les deux) du message souvent inhérent à l’évolution personnelle des protagonistes. Mais, comme ailleurs, le cinéma en Chine est avant tout narratif et il doit répondre aux diktats étatiques qui régulent son discours. La situation de la Chine est toutefois spécifique dans la mesure où la structure éléphantesque de la production cinématographique oscille entre la nécessité de créer un soft power à usage interne et externe, tout en restant strictement contrôlée par le Bureau du cinéma. En analysant la récurrence quasi obsessionnelle du drapeau national dans des films aux récits contemporains comme Wolf Warrior (titre repris par les journalistes pour parler des faucons de l’administration Xi) ou My People, My Country, ou encore les films sortis à l’occasion de l’anniversaire de la fondation de la République populaire de Chine, nous verrons comment ces œuvres racontent la maîtrise technique absolue de l’industrie chinoise, laquelle produit aujourd’hui des blockbusters impeccables ; elles racontent aussi la capacité du gouvernement à fédérer les professionnels les plus importants de l’industrie (acteurs et actrices, réalisateurs et réalisatrices) uni.es dans un chœur synchrone de fierté et d’orgueil.

 Jérémy Jammes (IEP de Lyon, IAO) – Les Échos du Minaret : un film-monument pour un micro-État musulman brunéien

Trois mois après le couronnement du jeune sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, le premier long métrage de Brunei, Gema Dari Menara (1968), est présenté au public. La trame de ce mélodrame familial, commandité par le Département des Affaires religieuses, repose sur une série de tensions au sein d’une classe moyenne émergente, mettant dos à dos une piété musulmane conservatrice et la sécularisation/occidentalisation du Brunei, alors sur le chemin de l’indépendance (1984). Cette présentation reviendra sur le scénario et les personnages de ce film de propagande qui balise un moment clef dans l’histoire socio-économique du pays et la mise en place de son idéologie d’État.

Vendredi 2 juin

9h20-12h Cultures matérielles et spirituelles du politique
Présidente de séance : Claire Vidal

Marie-Sybille De Vienne (INALCO, CASE) – Impermanence du roi, pérennité du royaume : les funérailles de Rama IX en octobre 2017

Les funérailles royales mettent en scène un rite de passage transformant le roi défunt en un esprit tutélaire protecteur du royaume et de la dynastie. Effectué une dizaine de mois, voire plus, après le décès du souverain, il se lit au premier degré comme la crémation du corps physique du Roi, déposé au sommet d’une tour représentant le mont Meru, dont les éléments décoratifs sont tirés de la cosmogonie bouddhique du Traibhūmi (Les Trois Mondes), l’un des textes fondateurs du bouddhisme siamois. Son ordonnancement peut s’interpréter comme le symétrique inverse de celui du couronnement, opposant par exemple le « plein » du Grand Palais où le Roi est couronné au « vide » de l’esplanade de Sanam Luang où il est brûlé. Par-delà, c’est la cité royale tout entière qui est sacralisée, via la répartition des cendres mêlées de fragments osseux du roi défunt entre les grands temples royaux et, métaphoriquement, le royaume tout entier par le rejet de celles des « fleurs de santal » dans les rivières qui le constituent.

Vanina Bouté (EHESS, CASE) – Entre poteaux rituels de fondation (lak müang) et stupa : réutilisation de marqueurs de la légitimité en RDP Lao

Plusieurs travaux se sont intéressés aux mises en scène du pouvoir politique en RDP Lao, montrant comment les plus hauts cadres du Parti unique du pays puisaient dans un ancien répertoire royal et bouddhique pour donner à voir une légitimité. On rappellera les différentes évolutions de ces marques de légitimité au cours des vingt dernières années, mettant en perspective les manifestations matérielles du pouvoir au niveau de l’État avec celles utilisées au niveau local (provinces et districts).

 10h30-10h45 Pause-café

 Elsa Clavé (Université de Hambourg, CASE) – Entre tradition et emprunts : l’esthétique de l’autorité des sultans de Sulu aux Philippines (xixe-xxie siècles)

Ma communication porte sur la stratégie utilisée par les sultans de Sulu pendant deux siècles (xixe-xxie) pour affirmer leur statut et leur autorité, de leurs costumes aux symboles utilisés. Ce faisant, l’étude met en évidence comment la tradition utilise des matériaux, des symboles et des rites anciens du sud des Philippines, tout en en incorporant d’autres qui appartiennent à la langue héraldique européenne pour étendre le vocabulaire symbolique de l’autorité et du pouvoir. La mobilisation de sources écrites et visuelles démontre comment la maison royale s’adapte à l’évolution des situations politiques locales et internationales. Les cas de comparaison des xixe et xxie siècles éclairent l’évolution des usages diplomatiques et contribuent à une meilleure compréhension de la culture politique du Sultanat de Sulu.

Florence Galmiche (Université Paris Cité, CCJ) – Esthétique monastique et réformes du bouddhisme coréen au xxe siècle

La présentation porte sur la manière dont le clergé et les institutions bouddhistes en Corée du Sud ont affirmé leur supériorité et leur distance vis-à-vis de la religion populaire, notamment de ce qui est aujourd’hui qualifié de chamanisme. Les moines en Corée avaient un statut social très bas du xve siècle à la fin du xixe siècle et de nombreux réformateurs ont cherché à redéfinir leur statut et leur autorité au xxsiècle. Il s’agira de réfléchir aux dimensions esthétiques et rituelles de ces projets de réforme du statut monastique : en particulier à l’attention accordée à l’aspect des moines (systématisation du vêtement et de nouveaux signes distinctifs comme le chapeau), à la codification rituelle de leurs interactions avec les laïcs (prosternations lorsqu’un laïc salue un moine, par exemple) et à la place donnée aux représentations visuelles d’entités classiques dans le bouddhisme coréen, mais associées à la religion populaire (Esprit de la montagne ou Pindola Bharadvaja par exemple).

Déjeuner

14h30-16h Lieux de mémoire et de pouvoir
Président de séance : François Guillemot

Arnaud Nanta (CNR, IAO) – La place du sanctuaire Yasukuni au sein du culte japonais des morts à la guerre

De 1879 à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le sanctuaire Yasukuni, à Tōkyō, a couronné le dispositif japonais de commémoration des soldats tombés pour le Japon impérial. Ce sanctuaire, transformé en institution privée après la guerre, continue aujourd’hui de commémorer les morts dont il a la charge, de façon parallèle aux nouvelles cérémonies officielles mises en place en 1952. Dans cette présentation, on analysera la nature des commémorations réalisées pour ces « morts pour la patrie », ainsi que la dimension plurielle de débats qui convoquent avec insistance le passé colonial au présent. Au-delà, on tentera une réflexion plus globale sur les institutions sacrificielles mises en place au sein des États-nations au xixe siècle.

Olga Dror (Texas A&M University, Collegium de Lyon) – Monumentalisation de la modestie : l’esthétique du culte de Ho Chi Minh

La modestie de Ho Chi Minh, que ce soit dans sa vie privée ou dans sa vie d’homme d’État, a été monumentalisée au Viêt Nam par le biais de livres, de photographies, d’affiches et de films. Bien qu’à première vue l’idée de « monumentalisation » ne soit pas nécessairement compatible avec celle de « modestie », je démontrerai que les deux idées ont créé ensemble une symbiose politiquement et socialement efficace au Viêt Nam. J’aborderai la question de la paternité de cette monumentalisation, ses principales caractéristiques et les raisons qui la sous-tendent.

Commentaires et discussion – Yves Goudineau (EFEO)

Conclusion finale – Jean-Michel Roy (Collegium de Lyon)


Source : https://iao.cnrs.fr/actualite/esthetiques-des-modes-dautorite-culture-materielle-et-scenographie-du-pouvoir-en-asie-orientale-xviiie-xxie-siecles/

Association for Asian Studies – Annual Conference – 16-19 mars 2023 – Boston

Programme en ligne de la prochaine réunion internationale de l’Association des Etudes Asiatiques aux Etats-Unis.

Lien vers le PDF en ligne : 2023-AAS-Print-Program-FINAL.pdf (asianstudies.org)


Quelques panels sur le Viêt-Nam contemporain et l’Indochine coloniale :

A038 – Ghostly Infrastructures and Worldly Hauntings: Understanding Politics and Power in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos – Sponsored by the Thailand Laos Cambodia Studies Group

Thursday, March 16, 2023 / 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

· Boston Sheraton Hotel – Jamaica Pond (5th Floor)

Legacies of western philosophy undermine approaches to scholarship in Southeast Asia, particularly categorical divisions between the so-called “worldly” and “unworldly,” which do not correspond to practices of stakeholders and communities on the ground. This panel gathers scholars from a variety of disciplines to discuss how infrastructures and spiritual powers become entangled and that these entangled categories must be considered together when conducting research on these practices. In the minefields of Cambodia, the military structures the spiritual hierarchies even so that Buddha is “the manager of all the spirits.” In Vietnam, the end of coal leaves behind contested power plants.In Thailand, roadside shrines that form from accidents provide glitchy sacred geographies. In Laos PDR, financial “ghosting” emerges beneath the state-led infrastructure projects.We draw together ideas of haunting, as in remnants that stay behind, and ghosts, as in those who stay behind, to bring into conversation multiple conceptual underpinning to things that haunt the Greater Mekong Subregion. In our multidisciplinary panel we ask, what does it mean to have haunted infrastructures in the Subregion? And what does scholarship look like when we blur the demarcation of worldly and unworldly hauntings?

Organizer : Darcie DeAngelo (University of Oklahoma)

Chair : Daena Aki Funahahsi (University of California, Berkeley)

Discussant : Christina Schwenkel (University of California, Riverside)

Presentations


B036 – The Lives and Afterlives of Three Royal Women of Vietnam from Dynastic to Nationalist Historiography

Friday, March 17, 2023 / 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

  • Boston Sheraton Hotel – The Fens (5th Floor)

Informed by a patriarchal Confucian ideology, Vietnam’s dynastic historiography tends to subsume its female figures under male-dominated narratives. This pattern extends to modern times when varieties of nationalism often reinscribe the stories of these women into patriotic narratives of the fatherland. As their silenced voices are recovered by new generations they are also re-covered in novel figurations to speak to latterday concerns and values. This panel proposes to retrace the layers of discursive transformation of three prominent royal women of Vietnam’s premodern past by way of an interdisciplinary historiographical approach. Trần Thị An looks at the eleventh-century Queen Ỷ Lan and the transformation of this Cinderella-like figure in texts, folklore, religion and on stage from medieval to modern times. Trần Hải Yến explores the racial and moral controversies surrounding Princess Huyền Trân’s fourteenth-century geopolitical marriage to a Champa king and her subsequent elopement with her alleged paramour upon widowhood in official histories and latterday romanticization. Nguyễn Quốc Vinh looks at the contested symbolism in Princess Ngọc Hân’s marriage to the Tây Sơn emperor Nguyễn Huệ in 1786 and its emergence as a site of counter-memories in postwar Vietnam. Comparisons and contrasts in the evolving portrayals of these three royal women from dynastic to nationalist historiography can bring fresh insights into the continual discursive reimagination and reinterpretation of elite female identity as a potent site of contest and subversion in the male-dominated world of Vietnamese sexual and cultural politics of the past and of today.

Organizer : Vinh Quoc Nguyen (Columbia University)

Chair : Hue-Tam Ho Tai (Harvard University)

Discussant : Nhung Tuyet Tran (University of Toronto)

Presentations


C036 – Area of Study: Southeast Asia Decentering and Recentering Saigon: The Southern Metropolis across War, Revolution, and Market Reforms  

FRIDAY MARCH 17, 2023 – 11:00 AM-12:30 PM 

· Sheraton, Riverway

Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) is now Vietnam’s largest metropolis and economic hub, unrivaled by any city except for Hanoi. But unlike the ancient northern capital, Saigon is an upstart city that rose from the periphery of Vietnamese political space to become a center of political, economic, social, and cultural power. It began as a small inland port of a precolonial breakaway kingdom, blossomed into a bustling regional capital under colonial rule, and, during the wars of the mid-twentieth century, asserted itself as a national capital eager to challenge the supremacy of Hanoi. The end of the war crushed such ambitions, but rather than being relegated back to the periphery, the renamed Ho Chi Minh City reestablished itself as Vietnam’s preeminent economic center. This interdisciplinary panel contributes to the scholarship on Saigon by reconceptualizing the city’s centrality and peripherality during the modern period. Kevin Li argues that the city was a contested political center during the First Indochina War and traces the attempt of the Bình Xuyên, an outlaw-led armed force from the city’s social and geographical margins, to assert power. Ryan Nelson contends that Saigon was the cultural capital of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The Saigonese enthusiastically adopted Western gender norms and women’s fashion and set the standards of taste for the peripheries of the republic. Erik Harms finds that infrastructural transformations made and remade the spatial centers and peripheries of postwar Ho Chi Minh City based on socialist visions and capitalist imperatives.

Chair : Nu-Anh Tran (University of Connecticut)

Discussant: Nu-Anh Tran (University of Connecticut)

Presentations

  • Marginalizing the State on Centerstage: The Bình Xuyên’s Battle for Saigon / Kevin Li, New York University 
  • Saigon in High Heels and Mini-Skirts: Changing Fashion and Gender Norms in South Vietnam’s Center of Culture, 1963-1967 / Ryan Nelson, Ohio State University 
  • How Reaching for Its Edges Helped Make Ho Chi Minh City into a Center (and Turned It Back into Saigon) / Erik Harms, Yale University 

D038 – Book History in Vietnam: Knowledge Transmission and Circulation in the Early Modern Era

Friday, March 17, 2023 / 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

· Hynes Convention Center – Meeting Room 200 (Second Level)

In the early modern era, vibrant literary and print cultures developed in East and Southeast Asia. The proliferation of classical “Sinic” knowledge was linked to the local formations of identity and commercial development. Although Vietnam has long been recognized as part of the Chinese cultural world, we still know very little about the cultural patterns articulated there. The books produced, printed, and circulated in Vietnam did not simply copy Sinitic cultural values, but reflect the cultural hybridity apparent at the interstices of Cham, Chinese, and Vietnamese societies. This panel examines how this hybrid knowledge was circulated in Vietnam. The chair Nam Nguyen will provide an overview of the extant knowledge of book culture in Vietnam, leading to Nhung Tran’s discussion of books printed and circulated on the southern edges of the Vietnamese Empire suggesting that they were representing local Cham practice as Sinic orthodoxy. Hsu Yi Ling’s paper on Vietnamese envoy book choices demonstrates how the lands and the waters traversed can determine what kinds of knowledge are (re)produced and disseminated in what was presumed to be a universal Confucian world order. Lan Nguyen’s study of the adoption, translation, and transmission Buddhist scriptures along the peninsular reveals how Yunanese folk practices can become transmitted and represented as orthodox. These papers all converge on books, as a medium for the transmission of knowledge, can distort as well as transmit what is seen as “universal knowledge.” Global book historian Devin Fitzgerald will provide his insight as discussant.

Organizer : Nhung Tuyet Tran (University of Toronto)

Chair : Nam Nguyen (Fulbright University Vietnam)

Discussant : Devin Fitzgerald (University of California, Los Angeles)

Presentations


E023 – Christian Asians or Asian Christians? The Transnationality of Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese Christians during the Fall of Empires and the Cold War

Friday, March 17, 2023 / 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

· Hynes Convention Center – Meeting Room 203 (Second Level)

Christians are transnational because they are united across political borders into a shared religious infrastructure. Yet, neither exclusively Christians nor nationals, they also existed an in-between space that transgresses political boundaries. Amidst the fall of empires, the rise of nation-states, and new imperial formations, this transnationality allowed Christians to construct horizontal networks across communities and national churches in East and Southeast Asia. By relying on various cultural repertoires, overlapping jurisdictions, and different claims to sovereignty and citizenship, they adapted and responded to the fluctuating circumstances.

This panel explores the making and unmaking of transnational Christian networks in East Asia during its violent decolonization period and the Cold War. How did Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese Christians manifest, manage, and maneuver their transnationality? How did this process generate various forms of inter-denominational tension? Anh Le analyzes the ties of two Catholic churches in French Indochina and examines their entanglements with overseas Chinese networks. Hajin Jun examines the transformative impact of forced Shinto policies on the Korean Protestant communities in late colonial Korea. Sandra Park studies how Koreans debated the postcolonial position of Christianity in the trans-imperial space of early Cold War Korea. Phi-Vân Nguyen explores the role of overseas Vietnamese in the Christian movement opposing the Vietnam war. Taken together, these four papers show that being “transnationals” meant partaking in multi-faceted inter-Asian relationships connecting them to other local and trans-regional networks, thus foregrounding oft-neglected historical dynamics that promise new insights into the studies of migration, Asian Christianity, empires, and the Cold War.

Organizers : Anh Sy Huy Le (St. Norbert College) ; Phi-Van Nguyen (Université de Saint-Boniface)

Chair : Michel Chambon (Asia Research Institute, NUS)

Discussant : Michel Chambon (Asia Research Institute, NUS)

Presentations


E039 – Legacies of the Second Indochina War and U.S. Foreign Policy – Sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Peace

Friday, March 17, 2023 / 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Hynes Convention Center – Meeting Room 104 (Plaza Level)

This roundtable brings academics and practitioners from the U.S. and Vietnam together to examine how the U.S. government and non-governmental actors have responded to ongoing physical legacies of the Second Indochina War from 1961-1975. These legacies include over 300,000 soldiers and civilians from all sides listed as missing in action; environmental and health effects of Agent Orange/dioxin hotspots; and over 100,000 postwar casualties from landmines and unexploded bombs. In the immediate postwar period, war legacies were an obstacle to relations of all three Indochina countries with the U.S., as U.S. policymakers took responsibility only for recovery of American remains and requests for assistance on other war legacies went unheard. In the decades since the resolution of the Cambodia conflict and normalization of U.S. relations with Cambodia and Vietnam, however, the situation has transformed to the point that war legacy cooperation with Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia is now a strong point in U.S. policy in the region.

Panelists will discuss examples of the process of building transnational and cross-cultural relationships to address war legacies and the implications of such cooperation for peacebuilding and conflict resolution elsewhere in Asia. Hai Nguyen will analyze the politics of U.S. research contributions for Vietnam to identify and recover remains of the missing through the Wartime Accounting Initiative. Susan Hammond will share the progress and pitfalls of uncovering the effects of Agent Orange in Laos and Cambodia. Andrew Wells-Dang will introduce case studies of U.S. non-governmental support for landmine/UXO action in all three countries. Ha Pham will provide the Vietnamese perspective of the war legacies and reconciliation progress in the postwar period.

In all, the discussants, bridging perspectives of different disciplines, generations, and institutions, will provide fresh interpretations of postwar history in Southeast Asia and a critique of U.S. efforts at reconciliation with its former enemies. Presentations will stimulate a provocative discussion among panelists and with audience members.

Organizer : Hai Nguyen (Harvard Kennedy School)

Chair : Kim Korinek (University of Utah)

Discussants :


Vietnam Studies Group (VSG)

Friday, March 17, 2023 / 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM

· Boston Sheraton Hotel – Public Garden (5th Floor)

This event is the annual meeting of the Vietnam Studies Group: a member of the Southeast Asian Council (SEAC).


G012 – History, Community and Memory: The Vietnamese Past in the Vietnamese American Present – Sponsored by Vietnam Studies Group

Saturday, March 18, 2023 / 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

· Hynes Convention Center – Meeting Room 209 (Second Level)

In the past two decades, new generations of academics have grappled with the dynamic relationship between the Vietnamese diaspora and its homeland. A forthcoming edited volume seeks to provide a “framework for Vietnamese America studies” that “present[s] a new Vietnamese American historiography that began in South Vietnam [formally the Republic of Vietnam]”, pointing to the (former) nation with which many studies of transnational and diasporic Vietnamese implicitly interact. This panel seeks to make this connection explicit. To open, Tuong Vu will discuss the connections between Vietnamese and diasporic studies. These two fields rarely interact, yet fruitful exchanges can be made to enrich both. The panel then features three panelists who display this interaction between South Vietnam(ese history) and its diaspora. With a longue durée and transnational approach, Cindy Nguyen uncovers the significance and legacies of building postcolonial Vietnamese literary heritage through the Saigon national library. John Tran examines a particular intellectual who, in traversing geographical and cultural boundaries, helped to develop an RVN-centric cosmopolitanism that continues to service the Vietnamese diaspora today. Finally, Alvin Bui looks at competing diasporic Vietnamese and Vietnamese historicizations of an RVN-era film in the lead-up to and after its recent digitalization by the film producer’s grandnephew. As seen through our panel, the presence of the (South) Vietnamese past in the Vietnamese American present allows us to find the convergence of Vietnamese and diasporic Vietnamese studies.

Organizers : John Tran (University of Washington, Seattle) ; Alvin K Bui (University of Washington, Seattle)

Chair : Nu-Anh Tran (University of Connecticut)

Discussants : Nu-Anh Tran (University of Connecticut) ; Thy Phu (University of Toronto, Scarborough)

Presentations


G018 – War Dead Identification and the Politics of Reconciliation: The Case of the Vietnam War (Part 1)

Saturday, March 18, 2023 / 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

· Boston Sheraton Hotel – Gardner B (3rd Floor)

This panel examines the scientific and vernacular endeavors to account for and commemorate the dead of the Vietnam War in Vietnam and the United States. Finding, identifying, and placing the remains of the war dead in the social and political order are processes crucial for healing and reconciliation in the aftermath of violent conflicts. In the case of the war dead of the Vietnam War, these processes are embedded within complex historical and contemporary contentions between North and South Vietnam, Vietnam and the U.S., as well as DNA-based forensic science and local spiritual traditions. In Vietnam, while war dead have received differential treatment from the post-war communist state—those fighting for North Vietnam commemorated as martyrs while South Vietnamese military dead marginalized from public memory—the state’s recent adoption of a forensic genetics-centered accounting program to identify fallen soldiers has met with resistance from local families, communities, and religious actors. In the U.S., the remembrance and repatriation of the remains of American Missing In Action service members in Vietnam continue to generate new possibilities and tensions for Vietnam-U.S. bilateral relationships and American public memory culture. Based on ethnographic, archival, and media research, the four papers explore, from the perspectives of North and South Vietnam, and the U.S., how the physical remains of the dead from the Vietnam War tenaciously evoke a past that refuses to be buried and a future that promises the possibility of reconciliation and geopolitical resignification.

Organizer : Dat M. Nguyen (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies)

Chair : Merav Shohet (Boston University)

Discussants : Hue-Tam Ho Tai (Harvard University) ; Christina Schwenkel (University of California, Riverside)

Presentations


H021 – War Dead Identification and the Politics of Reconciliation: The Case of the Vietnam War (Part 2) – Sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace

Saturday, March 18, 2023 / 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

· Boston Sheraton Hotel – Arnold Arboretum (5th Floor)

This roundtable extends the discussion of war dead identification and the politics of reconciliation after the Vietnam War in Part 1 from various disciplinary, historical, and religio-cultural vantage points. Continuing the discussion of U.S.-Vietnam relationship, Andrew Wells-Dang examines the reconciliation process between the two countries and peoples by discussing the various meanings that Americans and Vietnamese attach to bilateral cooperation on wartime remains recovery. Anh Sy Huy Le reflects on the complex dynamics with which Chinese communities navigated the competing forces of long-distant and revolutionary nationalism amidst the wars in Vietnam and on their implications for postwar reconciliatory politics. Hoang Minh Vu focuses on the Vietnamese refugee crises exacerbated by violence against ethnic Vietnamese in Cambodia and postwar political upheavals and the challenges they posed for the reconciliation process, particularly between Vietnam and Cambodia. Tuan Hoang examines the Vietnamese Catholic’s experience and reflects on how the political form of reconciliation can resonate with and diverge from religious notions of forgiveness. Together, the five discussants highlight the fraught processes of reconciliation following the Vietnam War, including migration, people-to-people exchange, and diplomatic rapprochement, as well as transnational violence, inter-ethnic tensions, socio-political turmoil, and religious restrictions. These legacies continue to generate, but also challenge, the frameworks and possibilities for social healing.

Organizer : Dat M. Nguyen (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies)

Chair : Ann Marie Leshkowich (College of the Holy Cross)

Discussants


K014 – Margins of the Sea and the Sea As Margin: Comparing and Connecting Early Modern Korea and Vietnam in Maritime East Asia – Sponsored by Korea Vietnam Working Group

Sunday, March 19, 2023 / 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

· Hynes Convention Center – Meeting Room 201 (Second Level)

If the Sinitic cosmopolis is what gives East Asia its cultural coherence, then Korea and Vietnam are tucked away along its furthest fringes. If the sea is what connected East Asia’s distant fringes, then it is also what kept Korea and Vietnam from one another. This panel explores the early modern history of Korea and Vietnam through the lens of multiple marginalities: as margins in the East Asian field as an area studies discipline; as margins of a Sinocentric intellectual and cultural ecumene, as margins to the maritime world of crisscrossing flows of oceanic trade; and as land-based territorial states for whom the sea itself was a marginal frontier.

The four papers in this panel tackle this intersection of historiography, maritime (or blue humanities), comparative history, and connected history from a number of perspectives. John S. Lee describes the link between ecological changes in the Korean littoral to an emergent sense of the maritime in late Chosŏn Korea’s administrative and intellectual culture. These shifts brought the agrarian Chosŏn state into new relationships with its maritime frontier, changes that connected Korea in concrete, material terms to a wider maritime network. While Chosŏn and Vietnamese administrative culture often overlooks these connections, the experience of Korean castaways in regions as far away as Qing Fujian reveals, as Jaymin Kim shows, a shared set of norms anchored by literacy in Sinitic, governed these maritime interactions.

Organizer : Sixiang Wang (University of California, Los Angeles)

Chair : Suyoung Son (Cornell University)

Discussant : Xing Hang (Brandeis University)

Presentations


K029 – Moral Money? Investment Strategies for Life, Afterlife, and National Salvation in Pre-Colonial and Colonial Vietnam.

Sunday, March 19, 2023 / 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

· Hynes Convention Center – Meeting Room 110 (Plaza Level)

Over the last few years, Vietnam’s leadership has made a substantial effort to promote and elaborate the idea of “Vietnamese business ethics” as is testified by high-profile events, conferences, publications, and media articles. The emphasis on the importance of commerce and of the pursuits of wealth, as well as the attempts to navigate their ambiguous morality, are not new in Vietnam and, in fact, have strong historical antecedents. However, the historiography remains unfit to give insight into either the development of the discourse on business ethics in Vietnam, and even less so – into how, why and what people invested their funds into throughout different time periods. This panel is an attempt to launch a discussion of this fundamental aspect of history with four presentations looking into several ways in which money was put to use in Vietnam’s past, and their interplay with the discourses on ethics and politics.

Lou Vargas’ presentation will discuss the role of communal donations in the village economies of 18th century Bắc Ninh. Vy Cao will talk about non-commercial circulation of books in the Mekong Delta as a major part of the publishing boom of the 1920-1930s. Anthony Morreale will trace the birth of commerce as a virtue of national importance on the pages of the first Vietnamese language business magazine, Nông cổ mín đàm. Lastly, Maria Baranova offers a biographical sketch of the most influential Vietnamese businessman of Indochina, Bạch Thái Bưởi, with the analysis of his complicated legacy.

Organizer : Maria Baranova (George Washington University)

Chair : Shawn F McHale (George Washington University)

Discussant : Shawn F McHale (George Washington University)

Presentations


Du port au monde. Une histoire globale des ports indochinois (1858-1956) – Colloque à Đà Nẵng les 27, 28 et 29 octobre 2022

Annonce d’un important colloque franco-vietnamien à Đà Nẵng (Viêt-Nam) les 27, 28 et 29 octobre 2022. Programmes téléchargeables ci-dessous en français, vietnamien et anglais.




Pour s’inscrire :

Un lien d’inscription est disponible sur la troisième page de la plaquette du programme (en vietnamien, en français ou en anglais). Les liens de connexion seront envoyés aux inscrits une semaine avant la tenue de l’événement. Comme indiqué sur le programme, les intéressé-es peuvent s’adresser au coordinateur du colloque aux deux adresses suivantes : 

La santé mentale en Asie du Sud-Est – Rencontres AFRASE 2021 – 10 décembre 2021

A ne pas manquer en présentiel et en visioconférence. Inscription requise.

les Rencontres Afrase 2021 se tiendront le vendredi 10/12/2021 à partir de 13h30 au deuxième étage de la Maison de la recherche de l’Inalco (2 rue de Lille Paris 07) dans la salle A. de Sacy (L2.05).

Organisées par Paul Sorrentino autour de la thématique de la santé mentale en Asie du Sud-Est, les Rencontres de cette année regroupent six intervenants  :

  • Didier Bertrand
  • Nicolas Bosc
  • Chantharavady Choulamany
  • Anne Y. Guillou
  • Luong Can Liem
  • Geneviève Welsh

L’Assemblée générale de l’association se tiendra à la suite des Rencontres à partir de 18h15, puis un pot sera offert dans la cafétéria de la MdR. Outre les classiques bilans, financier et moral, l’AG sera également l’occasion de présenter l‘EUROSEAS 2022 qui se tiendra à Paris du 28 juin au 1er juillet sur le campus Condorcet. Le bureau de l’Afrase est au centre de l’organisation de cet événement.

La salle étant soumise à une jauge, une solution hybride est mise en place. Il est impératif de s’inscrire en précisant si vous souhaitez être en présentiel ou en visioconférence pour participer.

Merci d’envoyer vos inscriptions à louise.bertaux-pichard@univ-amu.fr.

Pour la visioconférence, un lien sera adressé aux inscrits le jeudi 9/12.

Source : AFRASE

“1972: The War Between North and South Vietnam” [call for papers]

Appel à contribution.

NOTE : CFP Deadline Extension for April 2022 Vietnam War Conference.

Conference Call for Papers and Panels
“1972: The War Between North and South Vietnam”

April 1-2, 2022, Orange, California

The Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive and Institute for Peace & Conflict at Texas Tech University, and the War and Society Program at Chapman University, are pleased to announce a Vietnam War conference focused on the year 1972. This conference will approach a wide range of historical events and topics by hosting presenters who examine diplomatic, military, international, regional, social, cultural, and domestic aspects of the Vietnam War. We also seek presentations that reflect the recent and emerging scholarship on the policies, strategies, and decisions of the military, political, and diplomatic leaders of all nations involved as they sought to bring a successful conclusion to the war.

Militarily, the war effort of North Vietnam peaked with the launch of the Easter Offensive, their largest attack into South Vietnam since the beginning of the war. As the U.S. continued withdrawing American forces, the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam shouldered increased operational command and responsibility for defending South Vietnam, while receiving air and logistical support from the U.S. Diplomatically, as the fighting escalated throughout the year, U.S. and Vietnamese diplomats continued their discussions to establish a peace agreement in Paris. As North Vietnam persisted with their “talk-fight” strategy, the U.S. continued a strategy of “progressive squeeze and talk” and strategic bombing. Domestically, the escalation of military operations in 1972 resulted in continued domestic discord and antiwar protest within the U.S. A presidential election year with the Watergate scandal unfolding the Nixon administration sought to maintain popular support among the “silent majority” through a show of American strength in the face of North Vietnamese aggression. Internationally, the initial success of Nixon’s Cold War diplomacy near year’s end started to reduce international tensions and initiated the slow process of challenging widely held perceptions of monolithic international communism.

This conference seeks to explore all such topics, both as discreet areas of interest as well as interconnected aspects of the larger events. We also want to continue examining the issues related to what brought the various parties to 1972 and what happened in its aftermath. We encourage presentations that examine other topics such as the social and religious aspects of the war, the effect of journalism and reporting on the war, and the efforts to end the conflict through international diplomacy. We want an international perspective covered and seek presentations that reflect the perspectives of all participants, including those of the US, RVN, DRV, NLF, and all other nations involved.

This two-day event will be hosted in Orange, California. Conference organizers welcome individual proposals as well as pre-organized panel proposals that include a moderator and three individual presentations. Conference sessions will follow the standard 90-minute format to include 60 minutes for presentations (20 minutes/presentation) followed by 30 minutes for questions/discussion. Presentations by veterans are especially encouraged, as are presentations by graduate students. Graduate student travel grants might also be made available for select students. All presentations will be video recorded and made publicly available after the conference via the Vietnam Center & Archive website. Select papers may also be published.

Proposal submission deadline is November 1, 2021.

Please submit a 250-word abstract and separate two-page CV/resume to VietnamConference.TTU@gmail.com. If submitting a panel proposal, please include separate abstracts for each proposed presentation and short CVs/resumes for each speaker.

Thank you for your interest in participating in this conference.

Stephen Maxner, Ph.D., Director

The Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive

Texas Tech University

PO Box 41045

Lubbock, TX  79409-1045

Source : https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/events/2022_Conference/

Website: https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/

Image “à la une” : Chiến Ca Mùa Hè 72 – Thơ Phạm Lê Phan, Phạm Duy phổ nhạc, source : Manh Hai

Conducting Field Research in Social Sciences – Vietnam

Appel à communications.

CONDUCTING FIELD RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

Call for Proposals

In partnership with IRASEC, that is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the University of Văn Lang (HCM-city) is organizing on June 9 and 10, 2021 a methodology research seminar for young PhDs and PhD students working in and with Vietnam. The aim of the event is to support fieldwork training in social sciences, particularly in geography, anthropology, ethnology, sociology, economics, tourism and architecture.

This seminar will include a one-day presentation and exchange at Văn Lang followed by a documentary film in the evening and a field visit during which researchers will present their work on site. These two days will be guided by researchers’ fields, from construction and preparation to processing and dissemination in the context of scientific productions.

The seminar will focus on the following suggested topics:

  • What does it involve to do fieldwork? What constitutes a field?
  • How to (un)make a field notebook?
  • What is a field survey in geography and architecture?
  • From micro to macro: statistical and cartographic tools for objectivizing the field.
  • Contributions and challenges of qualitative in situ methods.
  • Reflexivity and field practices.
  • Data is not given: construction and processing of information from the field.
  • To be or not to be: field practices, activism and intimacy.
  • To speak and to make speak: recording, translating, transcribing, interpreting.
  • Participatory fields and action research: serious games, interactive mapping and theater.
  • Individual practices and collective research projects, how to share a field?
  • Between ethics and open source: how to disseminate field data?

Proposals should be no more than 250 words and should be adressed to the the organizers, Dr. Trần Cẩm Thi (Văn Lang) and Dr Emmanuelle Peyvel (IRASEC) at fieldworkSHS.seminar@gmail.com. The proposal can be written in Vietnamese, French or English and should also include a short biography of the author. Deadline: Monday April 20, 2021.