Understanding Digital Vietnam
The Understanding Digital Vietnam: Contemporary Issues and New Directions workshop was originally scheduled to take place on April 3 at Yale University. Instead, we asked our presenters to create short videos summarizing their papers and conducted a discussion remotely.
Our vision for the workshop was and is to facilitate a scholarly forum for researchers of digital Vietnam to share their work and discuss the shifting nature of mediated sociality and modernity in Vietnam. Beyond this forum, we also want to create an agenda-setting moment for all researchers involved towards a special collection of scholarly articles on digital Vietnam in the future.
The schedule was as follows:
9:00 AM: Dang the Digital Dynamo Delivers a Diatribe
9:05 AM: Erik the Electronic Educator Extends Existential Greetings
9:10 AM: Vietnam’s Returnees: Diasporic Subjects as Foreign/Familiar in the (Post)Socialist Homeland - Long Bui (UC Irvine)
9:55 AM: Between “slow death” and “slow growth”: Food contamination, digital motherhood and gendered precarity in Vietnam - Giang Nguyen-Thu (U Penn & University of Queensland)
10:40 AM: Short Break (With Festival of Memes)
10:50 AM: The network life of non-biomedical knowledge: mapping Vietnamese traditional medicine discourses on Facebook - Dang Nguyen (Yale)
11:35 AM: The Case of the Missing Maps: Cartographic Action in Ho Chi Minh City - Erik Harms (Yale)
12:20 PM: Raucous Debate (Open Discussion of Workshop Themes)
1:00 PM: Concluding remarks (Dang and Erik)
Discussants: Erik and Ken MacLean (Clark University)
Papers were circulated to all participants prior to discussion. We will update published versions of the papers presented here when they become available, as well as any resulting collaboration or future collections of research coming out of this workshop.
To learn more about the workshop presenters, watch short video summaries of their papers, and watch a recording of the virtual workshop, click here. You can also watch the recording of the workshop below:
