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The Mekong, China, and Southeast Asian Transition Series

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In recent decades, people living in the Lower Mekong Region have witnessed major shifts from predominantly subsistence agriculture to industrializing economies, with attendant changes in migration, crop production systems, and major infrastructure (roads, dams, industrial estates). This series of four webinars will explore how communities in the region are experiencing the economic, social, and cultural dislocations of these transformations.

Panel 1 took place January 27.
Panel 2: took place on February 24
Panel 3: April 7 | 7 - 8:30 PM EST - The Spirits and Spiritual Life of the Mekong
Panel 4: April 28 | 7 - 8:30 PM EST - Mekong Dams: Debates and the Politics of Evidence

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The Politics of ‘Good Reading’: Libraries and the Public in Late Colonial Vietnam

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April 8

On Our Own Strength: The Self-Reliant Literary Group (Tu Luc Văn Đoàn) and Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Late Colonial Vietnam