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VSG Annual Meeting
AAS 2024 – March 15 @ 7:30 pm
According to the sign-in, there were 35 conference attendants at this meeting:
Adrienne Le, Kevin Pham, Ben Kerkvliet, Judith Henchy, Sarah Grant, Sara Swenson, Mitch Aso, Jason Picard, Ann Marie Leshkowich, Martina Nguyen, Christian Lentz, Peter Larson, Ryan Wolfson-Ford, Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox, Larry Ashmun, John Tran, Phi-Van Nguyen, Alvin Bui, Tran Thi Phuong Hoa, Jack Yeager, Nguyen Thi Hien, Cari Coe, Erik Harms, Vinh Nguyen, Hoang Cam, Nguyen Thi Phuong Cham, Christina Schwenkel, Hy V. Luong, Janet Hoskins, Vu Duc Liem, Jenny Pham, Susan Spencer, Tuan Hoang, Nu-Anh Tran, Hoang Minh Vu.
Reports
Financial report:
- Revenue 2023: $1946.00 (dues and donations)
- Expenses 2023: $3450.38
o Graduate essay prize: $750 (one honorable mention yet to collect)
o Travel awards: $1000 (one award declined)
o Website maintenance: $219.19 and $1240.67
o Zotero submission: $120
o Credit card fees: $120.53
Graduate essay prize:
Sean Fear (chair)
Allison Truitt
Ben Kerkvliet
- Camellia Linh Pham, Comparative Literature Dartmouth College, “Colonial Translation Turned Vietnamization: Phạm Quỳnh and the Discourse of Transculturation”
- Danielle Dan Phuong Mallon, Political Economy of Late Development, LSE (honorable mention), “Disparate Provinces: An Exploratory Investigation into Subnational Socioeconomic Inequalities and Disparities in Colonial Vietnam”
- Phi Nguyen Yen, Architecture and Sciences of the City, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (honorable mention), “Liquid Skein-Huế’s Latent Water Dynamics: Nation building and Migrant Placemaking”
Note: papers were excellent quality (n=12), primarily anonymous review, one winner and two honorable mentions
SEAC report (Mitch Aso)
- Focus on welcoming graduate students into the AAS
- Dissertation workshop: Global China (8-10 fellowships); future themes will hopefully be SEA and/or Vietnam specific
- AAS initiatives and encouragement re:
o Participation from membership: language diversity initiatives
o Participation in regional conferences: New York, Midwest, etc.
o Encouraging international participation and scholars from Asia at AAS
o Dialogue between councils (e.g., growing trend of inter-Asian panels)
o AAS-in-Asia is doing quite well (1000+ members participating in these conferences, forthcoming in Yogya)
- Encourage VSG to spend down funds within – increasing travel grants, book prize focused on Vietnam, etc.
- Rising voices panel at AAS – Saturday at 2:00 pm (one Vietnam focused paper) and articles can be published with Trans Journal; new JSEAS initiative to work with folks received on the rising voices panel
- March 19th graduate student paper prize in SEAC - Pattana Kitiarsa Prize
Travel Awards to AAS (Hoang)
Note: Only three (3) applicants; need to extend and find ways to circulate the announcement wider
- Thi LT Nguyen, Independent Scholars of Asia (unable to attend)
- Tran TP Hoa, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
- Liem Duc Vu, Hanoi National University of Education
Website and Listserv (Judith Henchy)
- Finding new website rather than the old website: https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/vietnamstudiesgroup/
- 1044 people on the VSG listserv
- Carrie Coe: 14,000+ citations on the VSG bibliography
o If something is not flagged with “Vietnam” in the title, it might not show up in the bibliography (Christina Schwenkel)
§ please submit publications directly to Carrie Coe to add to the bibliography if anything is missing (Carrie Coe); currently using Scopus searches for “Vietnam” and “Vietnamese” but may miss publications occasionally
§ also using other major national repositories but without Vietnam and Vietnamese in the title, it’s easy to miss something
Transitions and Looking Ahead
- Budget and Finances (2024-2025) – Tuan Hoang
o higher than last budget of $4200
§ $1000 graduate essay prize
§ $1500 AAS travel awards
§ Up to $1500 for maintenance of website
§ Zotero subscription
o What can we do to spend more money? (Tuan)
§ VSG is the “wealthiest” group of all the SEAC groups because we’re not supporting graduate students in the ways that other groups are (Christina)
§ Putting money towards the VSG sponsored panel; more money to supporting Vietnamese scholars and graduate students
§ Do we need to spend it down in one year or is this something that should be tiered across several years (Christian)? I.e., when does VSG become qualified for more SEAC support?
§ Mechanism to petition for more money access re: VSG panel awardees to apply for travel award; $500 doesn’t move the needle on a plane ticket from Vietnam (Evan)
§ We perhaps just need to make the adjustment as a group à we can say that dues and contributions are specifically set aside for a particular cause, e.g., funding scholars from Vietnam to attend the AAS
§ Reasoning behind the call in Nov/Dec re: other funding sources, to encourage scholars to seek other funding sources (Vu Minh Hoang)
§ Category of travel awards that is a catchall phrase for academics in-country who do not have access to research funds (Nu-Anh Tran)
§ What would a connection between the VSG panel award + AAS travel award look like? Targeted emails to VSG panelists
- Outgoing Ex-Comm Members
o Fran Proschan
o Rachel Tough
o Sarah Grant
o Đỗ Thị Thanh Thủy
- Incoming Ex-Comm Members
o Ann Tran (Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, USC)
o Dat Nguyen (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies)
o Khanh Bao Tran (MSc Program in Computing and Information systems, Queen Mary University)
o Sara Swenson (Department of Religion, Dartmouth College)
- Vietnam Studies at AAS
o 7 panels fully on Vietnam studies
o 44 presentations on Vietnam studies
o Next year?
§ VSG-Sponsored Panel
· Showcase work related to Vietnam Studies
· Advantage to applying is that you bypass the whole selection process for AAS; really appealing for graduate students because it eliminates some of the application stress
· Should be primarily about Vietnam but doesn’t necessarily have to be exclusively about Vietnam
o Only had one panel this year; it was great, but we can do better
o 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War…
- Announcements
o Publications:
§ Kevin Pham (University of Amsterdam, Political Theory), first book coming out in September, The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (Oxford University Press)
§ Billy Noseworthy, Cornell University archival project; reach out with suggestions for acquisitions in Vietnamese Studies; collaboration with Fulbright University
§ Vu Minh Hoang, Columbia University LUCE Foundation grant to develop a new digitizing Vietnam project; new repositories for oral history; new community sourced archival projects; digital curators hired
o New initiatives and projects:
§ Christian Lentz, identifying valuable papers that won’t go to any particular archive; people who have played a large role in Vietnamese Studies and have important work (e.g., 1960s and 1970s) and documents but no place to go
§ Library of Congress film archives (attn: Ryan and Alex-Thai Vo)
§ Larry Ashmun: Waging Peace in Vietnam exhibit and reception at University of Wisconsin (https://today.wisc.edu/events/view/194104)
§ Global Vietnam journal with Amsterdam University Press
o Forthcoming conferences and workshops:
§ Legacies of the War mini-conference at Columbia University (28-29 March)
o Other announcements:
§ Tuan: ways to encourage folks to attend AAS-in-Asia
§ Hy Van Luong: language diversity, annual meetings in North America and AAS-in-Asia this could be welcoming proposals in languages other than English
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