Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Vo Xuan Vinh, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, will review the history of Vietnam-Thailand relations, examine current developments, and assess the prospects for the future of bilateral ties.

Hosted by the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, Phi Hong Su, Williams College, will discuss the disparate Vietnamese migrants' encounters with each other in the post-socialist city of Berlin, as highlighted in her book, The Border Within.

Hosted by the Library of Congress, Tuan Hoang, Pepperdine University, and Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox, New York University, will discuss Vietnamese experiences of mobilization and decolonization, including their exposure to American culture before and during the intervention of the U.S. in the Vietnam War.

Hosted by the Stimson Center, Doan Van Binh, Vietnamese-German University, and Courtney Weatherby, Southeast Asia Deputy Director of The Stimson Center, will discuss how floods, droughts, sediment disruptions, and morphology provide insights into the impact of dams on the Vietnamese Mekong Delta.

Hosted by Weatherhead East Asian Institute and sponsored by NYSEAN, Hayeon Lee, Columbia University, will discuss her three years of ethnographic field work studying Vietnamese migrant women marriages in South Korea.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Linh Nguyen, Associate Director at Control Risks, and Nguyen Khac Giang, Visiting Fellow at the ISEAS Vietnam Studies Program, will discuss Vietnamese leadership changes, and their implications for the country’s domestic and foreign policy.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Quynh H. Vo, American University, will juxtapose Vietnamese national politics of representation with narratives of human experience illustrated in Vietnamese American art and literature.

Larry Berman, University of California Davis, and moderator Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, will discuss the spy career of Pham Xuan An, a Vietnamese communist agent who lived his cover at Time Magazine for over 20 years. This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and sponsored by NYSEAN.

Hosted at the New Design High School by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Vanessa Chan, Malaysian author of The Storm We Made, will talk with Vietnamese author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai about her latest novel, Dust Child.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Mark Sidel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will discuss how Vietnam uses tax law, criminal codes, and NGO regulations to jail civil society leaders and limit civic space.

Sponsored by the NYU Global Asia Initiative, Ivan Small, University of Houston, Quan Tran, Yale University, Y Thien Nguyen, University of Leeds, Marguerite Nguyen, Wesleyan University, and Nu-Anh Tran, University of Connecticut, will discuss epistemological divisions within Vietnam studies. 

Hosted by the Department of History at New York University, Christopher Goscha, Université du Québec à Montréal, will discuss his new book The Road to Dien Bien Phu with moderator Kevin Li, NYU Elihu Rose Faculty Fellow in Modern Military History.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Jacob Weger, Seton Hall University, will discuss the strategic translations through which different actors in Vietnam and the Netherlands contribute to shaping climate adaptation and social-ecological change in the delta.

Hosted by the Stimson Center, Nguyen Linh Dan, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Nguyen Mai Phuong, The Asia Group, Courtney Weatherby, The Stimson Center, and Jake Brunner, Head for the Indo-Burma Group, will discuss how Vietnam can implement its climate energy commitments.

Dr. Ross King, University of British Columbia, and Dr. Keith Taylor, Cornell University, will compare the ways in which vernacularized forms of Sinitic poetry (詩) were developed in Korea and Vietnam in the 17th-19th centuries. This event is sponsored by the University of California Los Angeles Center for Korea Studies and Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

Hosted by Cornell University, Dr. Edmund Malesky of Duke University will present research that argues that as developing countries embrace international markets, economically insecure groups – and migrants in particular- are the most incentivized to educate themselves on factors that might improve their situation in the changing economy.

Ted Osius, former ambassador to Vietnam during the Obama administration, will discuss the various forms of diplomacy that made reconciliation between the United States and Vietnam possible. This event is sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the China and the World Program at Columbia University.

Hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, Martina Nguyen will discuss her book On Our Own Strength. She will address how Vietnamese intellectual history supports and challenges existing understandings of intellectual history, in both the local and global sense.

Join Lan Duong, an Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California, for a discussion on how water resonates as both membrane and memory within the transnational films of Việt Nam and the diaspora. She will discuss this topic from a trans-Vietnamese feminist point of view.

Hosted by the Stimson Center, this panel event will discuss the Vietnam War’s significant and lasting effects on the environment. Panelists include Professor Erin Lin of Ohio State University, Sera Koulabdara, Executive Director of Legacies of War, Doug Weir, Research and Policy Director of the Conflict and Environment Observatory, and Claire Yunker, Executive Director of PeaceTrees Vietnam.

Join Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai for a discussion on her award-winning novel, The Mountains Sing, as well as her unique perspective as a cosmopolitan Vietnamese writer and journalist, working in multiple languages, and in multiple societies. This event is sponsored by Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Air War in Indochina, an assessment of the war and its toll on civilians. In this talk, Professor Emeritus Norman Uphoff, one of the project’s original principal investigators, will revisit the humanitarian assessments that emerged from this study. This event is sponsored by Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Cornell University.

In this webinar, Andrew Wells-Dang, Senior Expert in the Southeast Asia Program at the U.S. Institute of Peace, will present examples of Vietnamese civil society actions over the past decade and examine prospects for civil society’s future survival and effectiveness.

In this talk hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Nhu Truong will explore repressive and responsive elements of authoritarianism in the context of China, Vietnam, and Cambodia and seeks to undo blunt dichotomies between “good democracy” and “bad authoritarianism” that have dominated contemporary policy debates in Asia.

Nearly half a century after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to be understood as a contest between communism and democracy as well as between Marxism and nationalism. In this talk hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Duy Lap Nguyen proposes a fundamental revision to this conventional view. Instead, he sees the First Republic not as a reactionary regime but a radical one whose principal aim was to empower the Vietnamese peasantry by isolating the urban elite and initiating a social revolution against the communist insurgency in the countryside.

The Cornell Buddhist Studies Seminar will host Alexander Soucy, Professor and Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at Saint Mary’s University, to discuss the globally important figure of Thích Nhất Hạnh in the developments of Buddhism in Vietnam and with the globalization of Buddhism.

The domestic politics of the Republic of Vietnam, which lasted from 1955 to 1975, puzzled Western observers. The American-backed regime claimed to be democratic, but in actuality was an authoritarian regime plagued by factionalism. In this talk hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Nu-Anh Tran argues that Vietnamese politicians genuinely favored democracy but disagreed on the degree of democracy that was suitable given the communist threat.

Join the NYSEAN Public Universities Consortium for a panel discussion that will look into the complex logistics of conducting field research in, and online research on, Southeast Asia.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies, this book talk examines postwar waves of political violence that affected six Southeast Asian countries - Indonesia, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam - from the wars of independence in the mid-twentieth century to the recent Rohingya genocide. Featuring cases not previously explored, and offering fresh insights into more familiar cases, the chapters cover a range of topics including the technologies of violence, the politics of fear, inclusion and exclusion, justice and ethics, repetitions of mass violence events, impunity, law, ethnic and racial killings, crimes against humanity, and genocide