Conferences and Announcements
Upcoming Conferences
2025 AAS Annual Conference
Columbus, Ohio
Thursday, March 13 to Sunday, March 16
Hilton Columbus Downtown, Hyatt Regency Columbus & Columbus Convention Center
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2024 AAS Annual Conference
Seattle, Washington
Thursday, March 14 to Sunday, March 17, 2024
Sheraton Grand Seattle Hotel & Washington State Convention Center
AAS 2024 Seattle:
VSG Annual Meeting at AAS 2024 Seattle
Friday, March 15, 2024; 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Seattle Sheraton Hotel
Room: Seneca (4th Floor)
AAS 2024 VSG Designated Panel
The Heritage and Development Nexus in Contemporary Vietnam
Sponsored by Vietnam Studies Group
Thursday, March 14, 2024
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Redwood A (2nd Floor, Sheraton Grand Seattle)
The interrelations between heritage and development provide opportunities as well as contradictions and dilemmas in terms of linking past, present and future in contemporary Asia. Ranging from infrastructure to tourism-oriented economies and evolving local identities, what we call the “heritage-development nexus” offers a unique entry-point to capture social and economic transformations from a cultural perspective. Vietnam offers an especially relevant case, as heritage – both tangible and intangible – plays an increasingly central role in shaping both national and local identity narratives amidst wider processes of social and economic change. Whereas much literature and public discourse have engaged with the spectacular and rapid transformations of Vietnamese society and economy, understanding of the equally significant cultural transformations and what we label the “heritage awakening” or boom in Vietnam remains in its early stages. This panel presents four case studies from Vietnam based on fine-grained ethnographic research with expert interviews and policy analysis. Ranging from site-specific field-studies to national policy level analysis, the panel seeks to unpack the heritage-development nexus in Vietnam by shedding light on the social and cultural complexity involved.
Organizers
Cam Hoang, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
Larsen Bille Peter, University of Zurich
Chair
Larsen Bille Peter, University of Zurich
Discussant
Christina Schwenkel, University of California, Riverside
Presentations
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Development in Vietnam
Hien Thi Nguyen, Hanoi National University
After Superstition? Heritagization and the Re-Emergence of Xoe and then Ritual Processes
Cham Thi Phuong Nguyen, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
Rethinking Heritage Agency and Marginality in Vietnam: Xoe between Cultural Assertion and Appropriation
Cam Hoang, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and Larsen Bille Peter, University of Zurich
Appropriating for Possession: Heritage, Competition, and Demonstration of Identity in a Sacred Place
Ha Thi Thu Do and Huong Dang Xuan Pham, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2023 Annual Conference & Expo Online & Boston, MA
Virtual: February 17-18, 2023
Boston: March 16-19, 2023 (Boston Sheraton Hotel and the Hynes Convention Center)
Learn more about the AAS Annual Conference here.
AAS 2023 Boston:
VSG Annual Meeting at AAS 2023 Boston
Friday, March 17, 2023; 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Boston Sheraton Hotel
Room: Public Garden (5th Floor)
AAS 2023 VSG Designated Panel
Saturday, March 18, 2023
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center - Meeting Room 209 (Second Level)
Sponsored by Vietnam Studies Group:
"History, Community and Memory: The Vietnamese Past in the Vietnamese American Present"
In the past two decades, new generations of academics have grappled with the dynamic relationship between the Vietnamese diaspora and its homeland. A forthcoming edited volume seeks to provide a “framework for Vietnamese America studies” that “present[s] a new Vietnamese American historiography that began in South Vietnam [formally the Republic of Vietnam]”, pointing to the (former) nation with which many studies of transnational and diasporic Vietnamese implicitly interact. This panel seeks to make this connection explicit. To open, Tuong Vu will discuss the connections between Vietnamese and diasporic studies. These two fields rarely interact, yet fruitful exchanges can be made to enrich both. The panel then features three panelists who display this interaction between South Vietnam(ese history) and its diaspora. With a longue durée and transnational approach, Cindy Nguyen uncovers the significance and legacies of building postcolonial Vietnamese literary heritage through the Saigon national library. John Tran examines a particular intellectual who, in traversing geographical and cultural boundaries, helped to develop an RVN-centric cosmopolitanism that continues to service the Vietnamese diaspora today. Finally, Alvin Bui looks at competing diasporic Vietnamese and Vietnamese historicizations of an RVN-era film in the lead-up to and after its recent digitalization by the film producer’s grandnephew. As seen through our panel, the presence of the (South) Vietnamese past in the Vietnamese American present allows us to find the convergence of Vietnamese and diasporic Vietnamese studies.
Organizers:
John Tran (University of Washington, Seattle)
Alvin K Bui (University of Washington, Seattle)
Chair:
Nu-Anh Tran (University of Connecticut)
Discussants:
Nu-Anh Tran (University of Connecticut)
Thy Phu (University of Toronto, Scarborough)
Presentations:
"Connecting Vietnamese and Diasporic Studies" - Tuong Vu, University of Oregon
"To Collect: The Decolonization of Libraries and Building Postcolonial Reading Publics, 1945-1965" - Cindy A. Nguyen, University of Ottawa
"Speaking the Nation: The Making of Vietnamese Language Aesthetics 1945 –1975" - John Tran, University of Washington, Seattle
"From Sài Gòn to Điện Biên Phủ (1968): Competing Vietnamese and Diasporic Vietnamese Memories of an RVN-Era Film" - Alvin K Bui, University of Washington, Seattle
Seeking nominations for VSG Executive Committee
To nominate yourself or someone else, please email Tuan Huang, Chair, and Judith Henchy by January 15, 2023.
Dues-paying members will vote for the executive committee in preparation for the 2023 VSG annual meeting in Boston.
Archive of Vietnam Papers Presented at AAS Conferences
Vietnam Related Panels and Paper Abstracts at the Association for Asian Studies Conference 2004 Session 6: Poetry as a Window on History and Change in Southeast Asia: Sponsored by COTSEAL ...
Vietnam Related Panels and Paper Abstracts at the Association for Asian Studies Conference 2003 Session 2: Who Finds the Stones to Cross the River? Emergent Social and Economic Inequalities in ...
Vietnam Related Panels and Paper Abstracts at the Association for Asian Studies Conference 2002 Session 5: Social Change in the Red River Delta: Results from the Vietnam Longitudinal Survey Organizer ...
Vietnam Related Panels and Paper Abstracts at the Association for Asian Studies Conference 2001 Session 6: Vietnam and the State in the 1950s: Arguments, Visions, Implementations Organizer: Shawn F. McHale ...
Vietnam Related Panels and Paper Abstracts at the Association for Asian Studies Conference 2000 Session 18: "America is in the Heart": Postcolonial Hybridities in Constructions of Vietnamese and Filipino American ...
Vietnam Related Panels and Paper Abstracts at the Association for Asian Studies Conference 1999 Session 18: Gender, Household, and Family in Northern Vietnam: New Studies Organizer and Chair: Jayne Werner ...
Vietnam Related Panels and Paper Abstracts at the Association for Asian Studies Conference 1998 Session 15: Recasting the International History of the Indochina Wars (Sponsored by the Vietnam Studies Group ...
Vietnam Related Panels and Paper Abstracts at the Association for Asian Studies Conference 1997 Session 17: Print Culture and the Construction of Identity in Japan, China and Vietnam Organizer: Shawn ...
Vietnam Related Panels and Paper Abstracts at the Association for Asian Studies Conference 1996 Session 39: The State in Southeast Asia Organizer and Chair: Craig J. Reynolds, Australian National University ...
Vietnam Related Panels and Paper Abstracts at the Association for Asian Studies Conference 1995 Session 12: Situating the Moment in Southeast Asia: Four Case Studies on Cultural Politics and Contemporary ...