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Call for papers : The global Vietnamese diaspora – transnational ties, cultural flows, political entanglements

PolishAcademySciences_logoInstitute of Sociology (University of Warsaw)

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (Polish Academy of Science)

Call for papers – invitation for the conference:

 

 

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The global Vietnamese diaspora:
transnational ties, cultural flows, political entanglements

 

Date: 28 March 2014, Warsaw

Language: English

Place: Polish Academy of Science, Pałac Staszica, Nowy Świat 92-94, Warsaw

We invite the scholars involved in the research of the Vietnamese diaspora to the participation in the conference organized by Institute of Sociology (University of Warsaw) and Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (Polish Academy of Science).

During the conference, we will discuss various dimensions of the presence of Vietnamese migrant communities dispersed around the world. The origins of Vietnamese migrant communities living in various countries are differentiated, including the colonial history (France), flow of refugees after the end of Vietnamese War (United States, countries of Western Europe) and cooperation between communist government of Vietnam and other countries of Soviet Bloc (Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, former East Germany). Vietnamese migration involves more recent phenomenon of economic migration.  Vietnamese residing in particular countries are a part of global Vietnamese diaspora, maintaining various ties with country of origin as well as other Vietnamese communities dispersed around the world. The connections maintained between the Vietnamese around the world and flow of cultural phenomena include multiple areas, such as business strategies, political activism and religious engagement.

The conference is aimed to form a platform for the scholars investigating various aspect of presence of Vietnamese in Europe to share their research experience and enable the development of new concepts enabling to grasp the fluid nature of transnational flows.

Participants will be granted the opportunity to submit their papers for publication.

The applications, including the topic of the presentation and abstract (max. 300 words) should be sent to szymanskag@is.uw.edu.pl until 20 February 2014.

Source : VSG

La souveraineté réaffirmée du Vietnam sur les archipels de Hoang Sa (Paracels) et de Truong Sa (Spratly) [2013]

TruongSaHoangSa[ndlr] Lu sur le site officiel du PCV. L’information date d’avril 2013.

Des chercheurs vietnamiens et étrangers ont avancé des preuves juridiques et historiques affirmant la souveraineté du Vietnam sur les archipels de Hoang Sa (Paracels) et de Truong Sa (Spratly), lors d’un colloque international tenu à Quang Ngai (Centre).

Ce colloque international de deux jours intitulé “Souveraineté sur les archipels de Hoang Sa et Truong Sa – Aspects historiques et juridiques” s’est clôturé dimanche dans la ville de Quang Ngai, province éponyme du Centre. Il a réuni une cinquantaine de chercheurs vietnamiens et étrangers, dont des experts des Etats-Unis, de Russie, du Canada, de Suisse, d’Australie, d’Inde, de République de Corée, des Philippines et du Vietnam.

Des chercheurs ont mis au clair des preuves juridiques et historiques de la souveraineté du Vietnam sur ces deux archipels et ont discuté des orientations et solutions pour le règlement pacifique des différends en Mer Orientale, a déclaré le professeur associé-docteur Pham Dang Phuoc, directeur de l’Université Pham Van Dông, organisateur de ce colloque international.

Ils ont également montré que la Chine n’avait pas suffisamment de preuves de sa souveraineté sur ces deux archipels, tandis que le Vietnam l’a établie, selon eux, sur ces deux archipels, de façon continuelle et pacifique conformément au droit international.

Ils ont aussi repoussé la revendication irraisonnable d’une souveraineté sur ce que la Chine appelle la “ligne des neufs tronçons” et la fondation par la Chine de la soi-disant “Ville de Shansha”, revendication qui porte gravement atteinte à la souveraineté du Vietnam sur les deux archipels de Hoang Sa et de Truong Sa.

Ce dimanche, les délégués se sont rendus sur des sites historiques liés aux activités de pratique de la souveraineté du Vietnam sur les archipels de Hoang Sa et de Truong Sa. Ils ont également assisté à une cérémonie commémorative des soldats vietnamiens tombés pour la souveraineté du Vietnam sur Hoang Sa, laquelle est organisée dans le district insulaire de Ly Son, province de Quang Ngai.

VNA, 29/04/2013.

Source : Parti Communiste Vietnamien

La France, l’Europe et le Vietnam depuis 1954 – Colloque international : 16-18 janvier 2014

ColloqueFranceEuropeVietnam[ndlr] Annonce du programme d’un colloque international sur “les relations entre la France, l’Europe et le Vietnam depuis 1954”, organisé du 16 au 18 janvier 2014 dans le cadre de l’Année croisée France-Vietnam 2013-2014.

Depuis la fin de la guerre d’Indochine et après une première période difficile, les relations entre la France et le Vietnam se sont approfondies et diversifiées, au point de nourrir aujourd’hui des échanges de haut niveau et une riche coopération. Parallèlement, le dialogue franco-vietnamien s’est multilatéralisé, notamment au sein de l’Asia Europe Meeting, avant de s’élargir à la dimension stratégique, sous l’effet des recompositions régionales entraînées par la fin de la guerre froide. Dans le cadre de l’Année croisée France-Vietnam 2013-2014, et quarante ans après le premier échange d’ambassadeurs entre France et Vietnam, ce colloque international permettra aux historiens, experts et grands témoins, d’évaluer le chemin parcouru entre la signature des accords de Genève, en 1954, et celle du partenariat stratégique franco-vietnamien, en 2013.

Colloque organisé par l’Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, la direction des archives du ministère des Affaires étrangères et l’Institut de recherche stratégique de l’école militaire (Irsem), en partenariat avec l’Université des sciences sociales et humaines de Hanoi (Ussh).

Inscriptions conseillées par mail : lecture.archives@diplomatie.gouv.fr
Renseignements : 01 43 17 70 30

 

Organisateurs et partenaires / Organizers and sponsors

–        Pour la France/In France : Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University / Chac-Irice ; Direction des archives du ministère des Affaires étrangères (mae) / Direction of the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (mofa) ; Institut de recherche stratégique de l’école militaire (Irsem) / Institute for Strategic Research at the Military Academy (Irsem) ; Musée de l’Armée/Army Museum.

–        Pour le Vietnam/In Vietnam : Université des sciences sociales et humaines (Ussh), Université nationale de Hanoi / University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Ussh), National University of Hanoi.

 

Pré-programme du colloque (décembre 2013)

Conference Pre-program (December 2013)

 

Jeudi 16 janvier 2014 / Thursday, 16 January 2014

– Invalides – musée de l’Armée / Army Museum –

(Esplanade des Invalides, 129 rue de Grenelle, Paris 7e)

 

17h : visite privée de l’exposition « Indochine 1856-1956. Des territoires et des hommes » / private tour of exhibit « Indochina, 1856-1956: Landscapes and Men »

 

17h45 (Auditorium Austerlitz).

Accueil / Welcome Address :

Général / General Christian Baptiste, directeur du Musée de l’Armée / Director of the Army Museum

Pierre Journoud, Irsem, Paris

 

18h. Table ronde sur la coopération de défense depuis la fin de la guerre froide, animée par / Roundtable on Defense Cooperation since the End of the Cold War, chaired by Benoît de Tréglodé, docteur en histoire et chef du bureau Asie-Pacifique de la Délégation aux affaires stratégiques (Das) du ministère de la Défense, avec / Doctor of History, Asia-Pacific Bureau Chief of the Strategic Affairs Delegation (Das) at the Ministry of Defense, featuring:

 

  • Général (2s) / General Daniel Schaeffer, premier attaché de défense près l’ambassade de France au Vietnam (1991-1995) / First Defense Attaché at the Embassy of France, Vietnam (1991-1995)
  • Contrôleur général des armées / General Comptroller of the Armed Forces Christian Protar, ancien attaché de défense près l’ambassade de France au Vietnam (2000-2003) / Former Defense Attaché at the Embassy of France, Vietnam (2000-2003)
  • Christian Bourdeille, adjoint au sous-directeur Asie Pacifique de la Direction Générale de l’Armement (Dga) / Assistant to the Asia-Pacific Deputy Director of the Armement General Staff (Dga)
  • Hoang Anh Tuan, directeur de l’Institut de politique étrangère et des études stratégiques de l’Académie diplomatique du Vietnam (Adv) / Director of the Institute for Foreign Policy and Strategic Studies at the Vietnamese Diplomatic Academy (Adv) (pending confirmation)
  • Capitaine de vaisseau Christophe Pipolo (Ema – État-major des armées RI/Division Régions), chef du Bureau Asie-Pacifique, Amérique latine / Asia-Pacific, South America Bureau Chief of the Joint Staff –International Relations desk (pending confirmation)

 

Vendredi 17 janvier 2014 / Friday, 17 January 2014

– MAE / MOFA – La Courneuve –

(3, rue Suzanne Masson 93126 La Courneuve)

Traduction simultanée français-anglais / Simultaneous English-French translation

 

9h. Accueil / Welcome

9h15. Allocutions d’ouverture / Opening Remarks

  • Richard Boidin, directeur des archives du ministère des Affaires étrangères / Director of the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Hugues Tertrais, professeur à l’Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne et directeur du Centre d’histoire de l’Asie contemporaine (Chac-Irice) / Professor at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University and Director of the Center for Contemporary Asian History (Chac-Irice)
  • Nguyen Van Khanh, professeur d’histoire moderne et recteur de l’Université des sciences sociales et humaines (Ussh), Université nationale de Hanoi / Professor of Modern History and Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Ussh), National University of Hanoi

 

9h45. Présentation d’archives/ Archives Presentation

Grégoire Eldin, conservateur aux Archives du ministère des Affaires étrangères / Archivist at the Archives of the Foreign Ministry : Des archives de transition. Des états associés à la section Cambodge-Laos-Vietnam / Transitional Archives : From the Associated States to the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Section

Diffusion d’extraits d’archives de l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel (Ina) / Presentation of audiovisual archives from the National Audiovisual Institute (Ina)

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1.    Les relations politico-stratégiques, vues par les historiens / Strategic and Political Relations: Historians’ Perspectives

 

10h45. Les relations franco-vietnamiennes après la guerre d’Indochine, présidée par / Franco-Vietnamese Relations after the Indochina War, chaired by Pierre Brocheux, historien, maître de conférences honoraires à l’Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 / Historian, Retired Associate Professor, Paris Diderot-Paris 7 University

 

  • Pierre Asselin (Hawai’i Pacific University), Les relations franco-vietnamiennes après la guerre d’Indochine, vues de Hanoi / Franco-Vietnamese Relations after the Indochina War : The View from Hanoi
  • Pierre Journoud (Irsem / Chac-Irice), Entre Hanoi et Saigon : la diplomatie française et le Vietnam de 1954 à 1973 / Between Hanoi and Saigon : French Diplomacy and Vietnam, 1954-1973
  • Hugues Tertrais (Paris I /Chac-Irice), Les relations franco-vietnamiennes à l’épreuve de la réunification / Franco-Vietnamese Relations and the Question of Reunification
  • Trinh Van Tung (Ussh) : Le rôle de la France dans la relation entre le Vietnam et l’Union Européenne / France’s Role in the Relationship between Vietnam and the European Union

 

12h45-14h15 : déjeuner / lunch

 

14h. Les relations entre l’Europe et le Vietnam depuis les accords de Genève de 1954, présidée par / Relations between Europe and Vietnam since the Geneva accords of 1954, chaired by Ton Nu Thi Ninh, vice-présidente de la commission des Affaires étrangères de l’Assemblée nationale du Vietnam, chargée des rapports avec les pays d’Amérique du Nord et d’Europe Occidentale (2002-2007) / Vice President of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Vietnamese National Assembly, responsible for relations with North American and Western European States (2002-2007)

 

  • James Hershberg (George Washington University), Les tentatives de médiation européennes pendant la guerre du Vietnam et leur impact sur la relation avec le Vietnam. La France et Marigold / European Mediation Efforts during the Vietnam War and their Impact on Relations with Vietnam. France and Marigold
  • Wilfried Mausbach (Université Heidelberg), Les relations entre les deux Allemagne et les deux Vietnam pendant la guerre froide / Relation between the Two Germanies and the two Vietnams during the Cold War
  • Pham Quang Minh (Ussh), La promotion des études européennes au Vietnam : opportunités et défis / Promoting European Studies in Vietnam: Chances and challenges

 

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2.     Les relations politico-stratégiques, vues par les témoins / Strategic and Political Relations : Witnesses’ Perspectives

 

15h45. Allocutions introductives / Introductory Remarks :

Duong Chi Dung, ambassadeur de la République socialiste du Vietnam en France / Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, France

Christian Lechervy, conseiller du Président de la République pour les affaires stratégiques et l’Asie-Pacifique (sous réserve) / Presidential Adviser for Strategic and Asia-Pacific Affairs (pending confirmation)

 

16h30. Table ronde sur les relations diplomatiques entre la France et le Vietnam depuis la réunification du Vietnam, sous la présidence de / Roundtable on Diplomatic Relations between France and Vietnam since Vietnamese Reunification, chaired by Elizabeth Laurin, directrice Asie-Océanie au Mae (sous réserve) / Director, Asia-Oceania, MoFA (pending confirmation)

 

  • Louis Amigues, ambassadeur de France au Vietnam entre 1986 et 1989 / Ambassador of France to Vietnam between 1986 and 1989
  • Claude Blanchemaison, ambassadeur de France au Vietnam entre 1989 et 1993 / Ambassador of France to Vietnam between 1989 and 1993
  • Antoine Pouillieute, ambassadeur de France au Vietnam entre 2001 et 2004 / Ambassador of France to Vietnam between 2001 and 2004
  • Ton Nu Thi Ninh, ambassadeur du Vietnam en Belgique et au Luxembourg et chef de mission auprès de la Commission européenne à Bruxelles (2000-2003) / Ambassador of Vietnam in Belgium and Luxemburg and Head of Mission to the European Commission in Brussels (2000-2003)

 

18h. Présentation de l’exposition du Mae / MoFA Exhibition presentation

 

Samedi 18 janvier / Saturday, 18 January

– Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Centre Panthéon,

salle / room n°1 – (12, place du Panthéon, Paris 5e)

 

9h. Accueil / Welcome

Philippe Boutry, président de l’Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne / President of the University of Paris I Panthé-Sorbonne

* * *

3.    Les relations économiques de 1954 à nos jours / Economic Relations from 1954 to the Present

 

9h15. Allocution introductive / Introductory Remarks : Pierre Brocheux, historien du Vietnam / Historian of Vietnam : Les relations franco-vietnamiennes dans le domaine économique entre 1954 et 1975 / Franco-Vietnamese Relations in the Economic Realm between 1954 and 1975

 

9h40. Les relations économiques et commerciales entre la France, l’Europe et le Vietnam depuis la fin de la guerre d’Indochine, sous la présidence d’ / Economic and Commercial Relations between France, Europe, and Vietnam since the end of the Indochina War, chaired by éric Bussière, professeur d’histoire des relations économiques et monétaires internationales contemporaines à l’Université Paris IV et directeur de l’Umr-Irice / Professor of History of Contemporary Economic and Monetary International Relations at Paris IV University and Director of Umr-Irice

 

  • Bui Thanh Nam (Ussh), Les relations économiques entre la France et le Vietnam depuis 1954 / Economic Relations between France and Vietnam since 1954
  • Jean-Philippe Eglinger (Alcatel-Lucent / Inalco), Les relations commerciales entre la France, l’Europe et le Vietnam depuis la fin de la guerre du Vietnam / Commercial Relations between France, Europe, and Vietnam since the End of the Vietnam War
  • Philippe Ortoli (Europe-Asia Investment & Corporate Advisory), L’énergie nucléaire dans la coopération entre la France, l’Europe et le Vietnam / Nuclear Energy in the Cooperation between France, Europe, and Vietnam

 

11h45 : Déjeuner / Lunch

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4.    Les relations dans le domaine culturel et religieux, de 1954 à nos jours / Relations in the Cultural and Religious Realm, from 1954 to the Present

 

13h. Allocution introductive / Introductory Remarks : Franciscus Verellen, directeur de l’Efeo / Directeur of the French School of the Far East : L’Efeo, une expérience vietnamienne / The French School of the Far East: A Vietnamese Experience

 

13h25. Les relations culturelles et religieuses, sous la présidence de l’ambassadeur / Cultural and Religious Relations, chaired by Ambassador Duong Van Quang, représentant du Président de la République du Vietnam auprès de l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (sous réserve) / Representative of the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the International Organization of the Francophonie (pending confirmation)

 

Rapporteur / Commentator : Bénédicte Chéron (Umr-Irice) : Héritages, mémoires et images dans la relation franco-vietnamienne / Legacies, Memories, and Images in Franco-Vietnamese Relations

  • Nguyen Thuy Phuong (Université Paris Descartes University), La coopération scolaire franco-vietnamienne pendant la guerre du Vietnam / Franco-Vietnamese Educational Cooperation during the Vietnam War
  • Julien Mary (Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier III University), Les anciens prisonniers français de la guerre d’Indochine et leurs relations avec le Vietnam : « mémoire partagée » ou ultime réparation de l’entre-soi ?/ Former French Prisoners of the Indochina War and their Relationship with Vietnam : « Shared Memory » or Ultimate Self-Healing ?
  • Tran Thu Huong (Ussh), Le rôle des sciences sociales et humaines dans les relations culturelles franco-vietnamiennes / The role of social sciences and humanities in the cultural Franco-Vietnamese relations

 

Rapporteur/Commentator : Pascal Bourdeaux (Ephe/Efeo Ho Chi Minh-Ville), Décolonisation, sciences religieuses et dialogue franco-vietnamien / Decolonization, Religious Science, and Franco-Vietnamese Dialogue

  • Claire Tran Thi Lien (Paris Diderot-Paris 7 University), Catholiques de gauche vietnamiens et français et combat pour la paix : Histoires parallèles d’une presse engagée (1962-1975) / Leftist Vietnamese and French Catholics and the Struggle for Peace : Parallel Histories of a Committed Press (1962-1975)
  • Sabine Rousseau (Sciences Po Lyon), La question religieuse dans la coopération franco-vietnamienne depuis la réunification / Christian Involvement in Franco-Vietnamese Cooperation with Vietnam since Reunification

 

16h. Table ronde des acteurs de la coopération culturelle, animée par / Roundtable of Agents of Cultural Cooperation, chaired by Daniel Weissberg, professeur de géographie de l’Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail / Professor of Geography at Toulouse II-Le Mirail University

 

  • Christine Hemmet (muséologue / curator, Paris/Hanoi), La coopération muséale / Museum Cooperation
  • Dao Thanh Huyen (journaliste indépendante / Independent Journalist, Hanoi), La coopération journalistique / Journalistic Cooperation
  • Patrice Jorland (Association d’amitié franco-vietnamienne / Franco-Vietnamese Friendship Association), La coopération associative / Associative Cooperation
  • Bui Tran Phuong (Université Hoa Sen University, Ho Chi Minh-Ville / City), La coopération universitaire / Inter-University Cooperation
  • Doan Cam Thi (Inalco), La coopération littéraire / Literary Cooperation

 

17h30. Conclusions / Concluding Remarks, par / by Ambassadeur Michaël Reiterer, conseiller Asie-Pacifique au Service européen pour l’action extérieure (Seae, Bruxelles) / Asia-Pacific Advisor to the European Service for Foreign Action (Seae, Brussels)

 

18h-19h : Concert de clôture / Closing Concert

Ensemble vocal Quê-Huong / Vocal Ensemble, dirigé par / under the direction of

Nguyen Ngan Ha

Université Paris I University ; amphi de gestion ; 14, rue Cujas, Paris 5e

Source : IRICE UMR 8138

The 5th International Conference on Hmong Studies [Call for papers]

Call for Papers/Presentations


The 5th International Conference on Hmong Studies

Friday, 21 March 2014 – Sunday, 23 March 2014

Concordia University St. Paul

1282 Concordia Avenue

St. Paul, Minnesota 55104

USA

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The Center for Hmong Studies at Concordia University-St. Paul is pleased to announce its Fifth International Conference on Hmong Studies. The purpose of this conference is to provide opportunities for emerging and established Hmong and non-Hmong scholars to share their research on Hmong related topics, to inspire and motivate students to engage in scholarly research, and to recognize distinguished scholars for their work in the field of Hmong Studies.

 

Call for Papers/Presentations

The Fifth International Conference on Hmong Studies is seeking proposals for individual papers and organized panels.

For individual papers, please provide the title, a 250-word abstract, name and affiliation, contact information, and a one-page curriculum vitae or brief biography. Individual presentations should run no longer than 60 minutes and should include 15 minutes for questions and discussions.

Organized panels should consist of three to four panelists and one moderator. Please provide a title, brief description of the panel, 250-word abstracts for each paper, and the names and institutional affiliations of all participants. Each panel is allotted 60 minutes, inclusive of open forum.

Please submit individual papers and panel proposals to Xiong@csp.edu. The deadline for submission of papers and proposals is November 29, 2013. Complete papers are due by February 28, 2014. Selected papers will be considered for publication in an edited volume by the Center for Hmong Studies.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

  • Acculturation & Adaptation
  • Art, Music & Media
  • Business & Economic Development
  • Culture & Society
  • Language, Linguistics & Literature
  • Current Hmong Issues
  • Diaspora Community
  • Education
  • Families & Children
  • Gender Relations
  • Health & Wellness
  • Hmong in China, Thailand, Laos, France, etc.
  • Hmong History
  • Hmong Identity
  • Leadership
  • Politics
  • Religious Beliefs & Practices
  • Urbanization
  • Youth

 

All tracks will be presented in English unless noted. When submitting your proposal, please indicate whether your presentation will be in Hmong, English or other languages. Proposals should be submitted to Xiong@csp.edu.

Please direct questions concerning this Call for Papers or the conference to:

 

Lee Pao Xiong, Director
Center for Hmong Studies
Concordia University, St. Paul
1282 Concordia Avenue
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55104
Phone: 651-641-8870

Email: xiong@csp.edu

Web: www.csp.edu/hmongcenter

Le théâtre français en Indochine – Marseille, Alcazar, 15-17 octobre 2013 [colloque]

Colloque international

Marseille Porte de l’Extrême-Orient

Le théâtre français en Indochine

BMVR Alcazar, Marseille

Salle de conférence 15, 16 et 17 octobre 2013
9h – 18h
Entrée libre
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Organisé par deux laboratoires d’Aix-Marseille Université, le Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Étude des Littératures d’Aix-Marseille (CIELAM) et l’Institut de Recherches sur l’Asie (IrAsia), avec le soutien de la Mission Culture d’AMU, ce colloque international qui interroge les liens entre théâtre et colonialisme (répertoire français joué en Indochine, censure, héritage du théâtre français sur la création contemporaine vietnamienne) s’accompagne d’une table ronde avec le Théâtre du Monte-Charge jumelé avec le théâtre National Tuong de Hanoi, de l’exposition d’une somptueuse collection de costumes de scène créés par la styliste vietnamienne de renom international Minh Hanh, et d’instruments de musique vietnamiens traditionnels, enfin de la projection d’une exposition virtuelle de documents d’archives (Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer / Archives Nationales du Vietnam (Centre n°1, Hanoi)) portés pour la première fois à la connaissance du public.
  • Inauguration de l’exposition de costumes et d’instruments de musique traditionnels vietnamiens par le Président de l’université d’Aix-Marseille Yvon Berland, le mardi 15 octobre à 14h15
  • suivie d’une table ronde avec le Théâtre du Monte-Charge, en présence des étudiants du Master Métiers de la Mode et du Textile : 15h-16h30.
  • Projection de l’exposition virtuelle “Le théâtre français en Indochine” (Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer /Archives Nationales du Vietnam) : le mercredi 16 octobre à 18h.

Télécharger l’affiche et le programme (recto+verso) :

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Source : Marseille-Provence 2013

The Vietnam War: New Perceptions [international symposium – Abstracts and Speaker Profiles]

TheVietnamWar_NewPerceptionsThis interdisciplinary symposium examines the Vietnam War from new perspectives including those of the Vietnamese diaspora, and explores the ways in which perceptions of the war have altered in recent years. The effects of the Vietnam War outside the boundaries of the Vietnamese state are ongoing. The presence of a substantial Vietnamese diaspora in countries that participated in the conflict has contributed to changing interpretations of the war. This symposium acknowledges the South Vietnamese experience of the war and provides new insights into the reconstruction and memorialization of the war by Australian, American, Canadian and French scholars.

 

DAY 1 – Thursday 10 October

François Guillemot

An Intellectual through Revolution, War, and Exile: The Political Commitment of Nguyen Ngoc Huy (1924-1990)

Many important figures in the contemporary history of Vietnam who experienced the destiny of their country from the seizure of power by the Viet Minh in August 1945 to the period of “Renewal” have been excluded by Vietnamese official history. Millions of Vietnamese perished at each stage of their decisive struggle for independence. But after the civil war, those who chose a different path by refusing communism joined the camp of the damned. Until recently, academic research has paid little attention to these forgotten actors. Through a biographical approach, this paper focuses on the political life of Nguyen Ngoc Huy, a well known intellectual and tireless activist. Each step of his relatively short life mirrors the internal fractures of the contemporary history of Vietnam: first, the “August Revolution” and the war for independence; second, the two decades after the partition of the country into two competing states and the struggle within the nationalist camp; and finally, the fall of Saigon and the years of exile and resistance. Huy perfectly embodies these three crucial steps in the struggle for independence and for a non-communist Vietnam. His political action in Vietnam and in particular in the post-Diem Republic of Vietnam instilled in the Vietnamese people the need to find a new path, both liberal and democratic, for their country. His political action outside Vietnam allowed the defeated elite to become aware of new geopolitical challenges and to politically rebuild within a transnationalist perspective. In this way, this paper examines the potential legacies of Huy’s actions and thought.

François Guillemot is a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS) in charge of Vietnamese documentation at the Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies (Institut d’Asie Orientale IAO, France). He received his doctorate in History from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris) in 2003. His current research focuses on the political and cultural issues of the Vietnam War and on Vietnamese non-communist nationalism. In 2007, he organized with Agathe Larcher-Goscha an international colloquium entitled “Bodily Identities in Vietnam: Transformations and Diversity” at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon. He is the author of “Death and suffering at first hand: Youth Shock Brigades during the Vietnam War (1950-1975)”, Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol. 4, Issue 3, Fall 2009, pp. 17-60; Dai Viet, Independence and Revolution in Vietnam 1938-1955: The Failure of the Third Way (Indes Savantes, 2012, in French); and The Other Half of the War: Vietnamese Women in the Civil War 1945-1975 (Indes Savantes, forthcoming, in French).

George J. Veith

“A Short Race to Hell”: Thieu, South Vietnam, and the Paris Peace Accords

The Paris Peace Accords remain the subject of deep historical analysis, much of it highly contentious. Various historians have heavily scrutinized the policies and motivations of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and his National Security Advisor, Dr. Henry A. Kissinger. One claims that Nixon and Kissinger sought a “decent interval” between the American withdrawal and a predictable South Vietnamese collapse. Another claims the opposite, that the Nixon administration designed an unworkable peace accord, seeking to create conditions for “permanent war.” This “permanent war” would provide a pretext for the American military to continue aerial and naval bombardment of Communist military forces. Other scholarship has focused on North Vietnamese motivations. The publication of internal Communist primary sources, plus a few memoirs, has enabled Western researchers to illuminate Hanoi’s goals. However, the actions of America’s South Vietnamese allies remain relatively unexplored. While South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu’s negative reaction to the American peace plan is well established, resulting in the intense re-negotiations of the accords from late October 1972 to late January 1973, Saigon’s policies, both internal and external, to prepare for a negotiated end to the war have been largely ignored. By examining Thieu’s policies from the beginning of peace talks in late 1968 to their denouement in January 1973, a clear pattern emerges of President Thieu’s negotiating proposals. This paper outlines Thieu’s policies, his overall goals, and how the Americans eventually came to ignore his policies.

George J. Veith is the author of Black April: the Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-1975 (2012). Mr. Veith also published Leave No Man Behind: Bill Bell and the Search for American POW/MIAs from the Vietnam War (2004), and Code-Name Bright Light: The Untold Story of U.S. POW Rescue Efforts During the Vietnam War (1997). Code-Name Bright Light was Book of the Month for the Military Book Club in January 1998. He has continued to write and publish about the Vietnam War, including many symposium papers, an article on the battle for Xuan Loc in April 1975 that appeared in the January 2004 issue of the Journal of Military History, and various newspaper articles. He has spoken to the American Legion, National League of POW/MIA Families, National Alliance of Families, and many others. Mr. Veith has testified be fore the House of Representatives twice on the POW/MIA issue, and has appeared on Fox News and other radio and TV stations. He is currently writing an article for “The American Legion” magazine comparing the end of the Vietnam War with the end of the Afghanistan war.

Noah Riseman

The Vietnam War and Indigenous Service in Australia and the United States

The 1960s-70s in the United States and Australia are often remembered as times of upheaval, social change, and activism. The Vietnam War and the civil rights movements for African-American, Native American, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have been central to studies of the 1960s-70s. What has not received significant historical attention, though, has been the intersection of these themes: Indigenous participation in the Vietnam War. This paper compares Indigenous military service in Vietnam, exploring the various parallels and divergences between the experiences of Native American and Australian Indigenous servicemen. Oral histories from both groups have generally described the war in a similar manner as their nations’ respective non-Indigenous servicemen. Even so, there are stark similarities and differences between the experiences of the two peoples ranging from their motivations to enlist, their treatment in Vietnam, their adjustment back to civilian life and their roles in Indigenous Affairs in the United States and Australia. Through the lens of comparative history, this paper analyses the Indigenous Vietnam experiences of Native Americans and Indigenous Australians, using personal stories to ground the comparisons in the lived experiences of the Indigenous servicemen.

Noah Riseman completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2008. His PhD, recipient of the 2009 C.E.W. Bean Prize in Military History, was a comparative analysis of Yolngu, Papua New Guineans, and the Navajo Code Talkers in the Second World War. A revised version of his PhD was published in 2012 by University of Nebraska Press as Defending Whose Country? Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War. Dr. Riseman is now a Senior Lecturer in History at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. He is currently part of two Australian Research Council projects examining the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander military service, with particular focus on the post-Second World War era.

Nathalie Nguyen

Recognition of War Service: Vietnamese Veterans and Australian Government Policy

The end of the Vietnam War in 1975 led to one of the largest and most visible diasporas of the late twentieth century. More than two million Vietnamese left their homeland in the following two decades. The major countries of resettlement were the United States, Australia, Canada and France. In Australia, the number of Vietnamese grew from only 1,000 in 1975 to approximately 233,000 in 2011 or just over one percent of the Australian population. The Vietnamese community in Australia is a legacy of the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Among the Vietnamese refugees were many former soldiers. General mobilisation was decreed in South Vietnam in 1968 and nearly male over the age of twenty had some form of military experience. Vietnamese veterans have marched on Anzac Day in Australia since 1981 and are accepted as full members of the Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL), yet few know of their life stories, their war experiences or their perspectives of the war. Based on an oral history project conducted in Australia, this paper will explore a little known aspect of Australian government policy towards a significant component of the Vietnamese refugee and migrant community in Australia–namely veterans from the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces (RVNAF)– and examine the recognition of their war service by the Australian government as well as the political controversies that surrounded this issue in the Australian Parliament in 1985-1986.

Nathalie Nguyen is an Associate Professor and holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2011-2015) for her project “Forgotten Histories: Vietnamese veterans in Australia” at the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Her previous fellowships include an ARC Australian Research Fellowship (2005-2010) at the University of Melbourne, a 2007 Harold White Fellowship at the National Library of Australia, and a 2011 Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford. On completing a B.A. (Hons) at the University of Melbourne, Nguyen was awarded the Dwight Final Examination Prize and the Professor Alan Rowland Chisholm Memorial Prize before winning a Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Award to the University of Oxford, where she obtained her doctorate. She is the author of three books, two of which have been translated into other languages: Vietnamese Voices: Gender and Cultural Identity in the Vietnamese Francophone Novel (2003); Voyage of Hope: Vietnamese Australian Women’s Narratives (2005), shortlisted for the 2007 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards; and Memory Is Another Country: Women of the Vietnamese Diaspora (2009), which received international recognition as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2010, and was published in Paris, France, as La mémoire est un autre pays: Femmes de la diaspora vietnamienne (2013).
Peter Edwards

Fifty Years On: Half-Century Reflections on the Australian Commitment to the Vietnam War

In the 1970s and 1980s, Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War was widely perceived to have been grievously mistaken, if not immoral. Numerous aspects of Australian social and political life reflected a reaction against not only Australia’s commitment to the war but to many policies and attitudes that the commitment was seen to symbolise. These included Australia’s strategic policies, especially the Australian-American alliance and Australia’s relations with Asia; the structure and doctrine of the Australian armed services; attitudes to conscription; relations between the military and the media; and the treatment of Australian veterans. In recent years, much has changed. Since the late 1990s, Australia has become involved in a number of military conflicts, notably in Iraq and Afghanistan, alongside the United States, despite protests that these commitments were repeating the mistakes of Vietnam. This paper reviews some of the arguments for and against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War, in the light of more recent developments.

Peter Edwards has published extensively on the history of Australian defence and foreign policies, especially the Vietnam War and other conflicts in Southeast Asia, the Australian-American alliance, and the policy-making process. As the Official Historian of Australia’s involvement in Southeast Asian conflicts 1948-75 (Malaya, Borneo and Vietnam), he was the author of Crises and Commitments (1992) and A Nation at War (1997), and general editor of the nine-volume series. A graduate of the Universities of Western Australia and Oxford, he is currently an Adjunct Professor at Deakin University. He is a Member of the Order of Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, and the winner of several literary awards.

 

DAY 2 – Friday 11 October

Thanh-Vân Ton That

Stories of Passion and Decolonization from the Indochina War to the Vietnam War

At a time when we are approaching the sixtieth anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, it seems relevant to compare four novels of contemporary French writers of Vietnamese origin evoking tragic love stories in wartime and symbolizing the impossible union of opposites: the West and Asia, colonizers and colonized, male and female, life and death. The four novels are Kim Lefèvre’s Les Eaux mortes du Mékong (Dead Waters of the Mekong) (Points, 2010); Hoai Huong Nguyen’s L’Ombre douce (Gentle Shadow) (Editions Viviane Hamy, 2013); Anna Moï’s Riz noir (Black Rice) (Folio, 2006); and Tuyêt-Nga Nguyen’s Le Journaliste français (The French Journalist) (Le grand miroir, 2007). This paper will discuss the myths and topoi of thwarted love in France and Vietnam as well as the weight of culture and tradition, and will seek to decipher the meaning and allegory of the heroic female figure. From one war to another (the Indochina War to the Vietnam War), these four contemporary novels provide a reflection of a meeting of worlds and clash of cultures at the crossroads of history and literature.

Thanh-Vân Ton That is Professor of Comparative and Francophone Literature at the University of Paris-Est Créteil. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) she obtained her doctorate from the Sorbonne. She has published critical editions of Les Pas effacés by Robert de Montesquiou and the poetry of Anna de Noailles (Éditions du Sandre, 2007, 2013), translations (Gogol, Chekhov), and Proust ou l’écriture prisonnière, Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein: un roman de la folie amoureuse (Éditions du temps, 2000, 2005), Léon Cladel et l’écriture de la Commune (L’Harmattan, 2007). Her current work focuses on Francophonie in Vietnamese and Russian.
Frank Palmos

Vietnam’s Unfinished Revolution: Rising Voices for Alternatives to an Outmoded Ruling System

Revolution in South East Asia has centred around two great peoples, Indonesian and Vietnamese. The Indonesian Revolution was completed (1945-1998) when GeneralSuharto was removed in 1998 and a liberal democratic system introduced. Today it seems remarkably flexible and stable. The Vietnamese Revolution, on the other hand, has yet to shed its totalitarian, oppressive Communist system that has for fifty years been so costly to its people, through first civil then open warfare. The North Vietnamese regime’s invasion of South Vietnam followed the typical path of Soviet territorial expansion and implantation of military and commercial influence, so common in the immediate post-World War II decades. First was the forced redistribution of land and wealth, followed by other moral and property punitive actions that sent more than one million people fleeing to South Vietnam. The northern Communists then began their first stage of a takeover by inciting terror, using violent hit and run assassinations of village leaders, police posts, religious and political leaders, and taking hostages of innocents. In the second stage, guerrilla warfare was begun, using border protections in “friendly” countries that would prevent counteractions by free world forces. The final stage was open warfare, which required tens of thousands, building to hundreds of thousands in Hanoi’s case of indoctrinated troops. The “victory” of the Communists in South Vietnam was followed almost immediately by a breakdown in all forms of government (except for the requirement of a strong armed force to police the state). The new Vietnamese Dong after twenty years of Communist rule was worth one 42,000th of its value in 1978. Roads, rail, shipping, communications, education, child-care, hospitals, and all public buildings were in a failed state of disrepair. Vietnam was listed as the fourth poorest nation in the world, ahead of just three of the worst African dictatorships. The Vietnamese Revolution is incomplete. The world would naturally be hoping that the final stages will not be as bloody and costly as the Communist driven stage of enforced “reunification.”

Frank Palmos is an historian and former journalist. He was a Vietnam War correspondent for five tours between 1965 and 1968, accompanying 33 land, sea and air missions from bases in Da Nang, Saigon and Nha Trang. He was the sole survivor of a Viet Cong ambush of five Western war correspondents in Cholon, Saigon, on 5 May 1968 during the Second Tet Offensive. His experiences as a correspondent in Vietnam, and in his successful, two-year investigation into the Tet incident, constitute his autobiographical book, Ridding the Devils (Bantam, Sydney 1990) which has been translated into Vietnamese and read in serial form over Vietnam National Radio, 1990-1991. He compiled and authored the English version of Bao Ninh’s celebrated Vietnam War novel, The Sorrow of War (Secker & Warburg, 1993), winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Award 1994, and rated by the Society of Authors, London, as one of 50 best translations in the 20th century. He was a contributor to Requiem (Jonathan Cape, 1997), edited by Horst Faas and Tim Page, in memory of the 135 combat photographers and correspondents killed over two decades in the Indochina Wars. He received his PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2012 for his study of the Indonesian revolution, Surabaya 1945: Sacred Territory.

Robert McKelvey

The Vietnam War: A Personal Journey

This essay describes the experiences, thoughts, and feelings of one person in the years leading up to, during, and after the Vietnam War. The journey described has not ended because the war and its aftermath continue to preoccupy his thinking now over forty years since his military service in Vietnam. From an emotional perspective, it was the dominant theme of his life, and continues to trouble him as he attempts to understand and reconcile his feelings of gu ilt at the United States’ and his own personal abandonment of the Vietnamese at the end of the war. For those who did notexperience the war directly, it may help to illustrate the confusing, often distressing, and at times overwhelming events that made the war the central event in the lives of a generation of Americans and several generations of Vietnamese.

Robert McKelvey received his BA in German and English History and Literature from Harvard University in 1966 and then spent a year on a German Academic Exchange Fellowship at Eberhardt-Karls University in Tuebingen. Subsequently, he was an officer in the United States Marine Corps, serving in Vietnam and earning a Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V.” He graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1974, completed his psychiatry residency at Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School in 1977, and his child psychiatry fellowship training at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He has served on the faculties of Harvard Medical School, Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Western Australia, and Oregon Health and Science University. He is presently Professor of Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University and is in private practice. His academic interests include cross-cultural psychiatry involving refugee populations from Vietnam, physicians coping with the deaths of child patients, and the so-called “euthanasia” program in National Socialist Germany. He has published numerous articles and three books including The Dust of Life: America’s Abandonment of Its Children in Vietnam and A Gift of Barbed Wire: America’s Abandonment of Its Allies in South Vietnam.

Kieu-Linh Valverde

Viet Nam War as Concept: Recognizing Individual and Global Ownership of the War Experience

Protests over the museum exhibit, What’s Going On?– California and the Vietnam Era exhibition in Oakland, California (USA 2004-2005), initially appeared to arise from a cluster of Southeast Asian Americans finding voice and demanding inclusion. However, they actually showed that discontent with the exhibit was more wide reaching. Chicanos, veterans, free-speech protestors, peace activists, and others also wanted their views represented. From this point, my research revealed that no single segment of society owns the “Viet Nam War” as an experience. It is not even the exclusive domain of people who lived in Southeast Asia during the fighting. Many communities internationally embrace the “Viet Nam War” era wholeheartedly. For some involved in the war directly, it meant helping keep democracy alive; for others, like Latin Americans, it was about global revolution. For Southeast Asian Americans it signaled a new beginning as diasporic peoples building communities away from “home.” This paper examines the various and divergent views of the Viet Nam War experience and its role in the development of personal, community, and national identities. This serves to help us rethink the Viet Nam War period and its aftermath with a much more globally inclusive perspective. Coming full circle as a co-curator for the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the end of the Second Indochina War, I am invested in a broader understanding of the impact of this era and the assertion that the Viet Nam War as concept is owned by the world.

Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She received her B.A. in Political Science and Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her teaching, research and organizing interests include: Southeast Asian American history and contemporary issues, mixed race and gender theories, Fashionology, Aesthetics, Diaspora, and Transnationalism Studies. She authored Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora (Temple University Press 2012). Professor Valverde founded Viet Nam Women’s Forum (1996-2006), a virtual community with hundreds of women internationally that mobilized for change in Viet Nam and abroad,and Fight the Tower (2013), a movement to resist and demand justice against discriminatory practices directed against women of color in the academy. ProfessorValverde was a Luce Southeast Asian Studies Fellow at the Australian National University (2004), Rockefeller Fellow for Project Diaspora at the University of Massachusetts, Boston (2001-02), and a Fulbright Fellow in Viet Nam (1999). As a passionate advocate for the arts, she curated the exhibit Áo Dài: A Modern Design Coming of Age (2006) for the San Jose Museum of Quits and Textiles in partnership with Association for Viet Arts, and consults for the annual Áo Dài Festival held in San Jose, California (2011-present). She is currently co-curating an upcoming exhibit for the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the end of the Second Indochina War.

The Vietnam War: New Perceptions [international symposium]

October 10-11, 2013

Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy

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Vietnamese veterans marching on Anzac Day in Melbourne, 25 April 2011.
© Keith Broad

A symposium convened by Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow Nathalie Nguyen from the National Centre for Australian Studies in the School of Journalism, Australian and Indigenous Studies at Monash University, as part of her Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on “Forgotten Histories: Vietnamese Veterans in Australia.”

This interdisciplinary symposium examines the Vietnam War from new perspectives including those of the Vietnamese diaspora, and explores the ways in which perceptions of the war have altered in recent years. The effects of the Vietnam War outside the boundaries of the Vietnamese state are ongoing. The presence of a substantial Vietnamese diaspora in countries that participated in the conflict has contributed to changing interpretations of the war. This symposium acknowledges the South Vietnamese experience of the war and provides new insights into the reconstruction and memorialization of the war by Australian, American, Canadian and French scholars.

Speakers

  • Dr Peter Edwards Deakin University
  • Dr François Guillemot CNRS/Institut d’Asie Orientale
  • Dr Robert McKelvey Oregon Health and Science University
  • Associate Professor Nathalie Nguyen Monash University
  • Dr Frank Palmos University of Western Australia
  • Dr Noah Riseman Australian Catholic University
  • Professor Thanh-Vân Ton That Université Paris Est-Créteil
  • Associate Professor Kieu-Linh Valverde University of California Davis
  • Mr George J. Veith Independent Historian

Convenor

  • Associate Professor Nathalie Nguyen, ARC Future Fellow, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University

Contacts During Symposium

  • Francesca Vivarelli

Reception and Accommodation Officer
Monash University Prato Centre
Via Publiesi, 26 – Palazzo Vaj – 59100 Prato PO – Italy
T: +39 (0) 547 43691
E: francesca.vivarelli@monash.edu

  • Nathalie Nguyen

E: nathalie.nguyen@monash.edu

Thursday 10 October

VENUE
Sala Toscana, Monash University Prato Centre, Via Publiesi 26, Prato

  • 9.00am-9.30am Welcome

Dr Cecilia Hewlett, Director, Monash University Prato Centre

Associate Professor Nathalie Nguyen, Symposium Convenor

  • 9.30am-10.30am Dr François Guillemot

An Intellectual through Revolution, War, and Exile: The Political Commitment of Nguyen Ngoc Huy (1924-1990)

  • 10.30am-11.00am Morning Tea
  • 11.00am-12.00pm Mr George J. Veith

“A Short Race to Hell”: Thieu, South Vietnam, and the Paris Peace Accords

  • 12.00pm-1.30pm Lunch
  • 1.30pm-2.30pm Dr Noah Riseman

The Vietnam War and Indigenous Service in Australia and the United States

  • 2.30pm-3.30pm Associate Professor Nathalie Nguyen

Recognition of War Service: Vietnamese Veterans and Australian Government Policy

  • 3.30pm-4.00pm Afternoon Tea
  • 4.00pm-5.00pm Dr Peter Edwards

Fifty Years On: Half-Century Reflections on the Australian Commitment to the Vietnam War

  • 7.30pm Dinner

Antica Fiaschetteria, Via Dell’Accademia 49, Prato 5

Friday 11 October

VENUE
Sala Toscana, Monash University Prato Centre, Via Publiesi 26, Prato

  • 9.30am-10.30am Dr Thanh-Vân Ton That

Stories of Passion and Decolonization from the Indochina War to the Vietnam War

  • 10.30am-11.00am Morning Tea
  • 11.00am-12.00pm Dr Frank Palmos

Vietnam’s Unfinished Revolution: Rising Voices in Alternatives to an Outmoded Ruling System

  • 12.00pm-1.30pm Lunch
  • 1.30pm-2.30pm Dr Robert McKelvey

The Vietnam War: A Personal Journey

  • 2.30pm-3.30pm Associate Professor Kieu-Linh Valverde

Viet Nam War as Concept: Recognizing Individual and Global Ownership of War Experience

  • 3.30pm-4.00pm Afternoon Tea
  • 4.00pm-5.00pm Round Table Discussions
  • 7.30pm Dinner

Il Baghino, Via Dell’Accademia 9, Prato

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