The 11th Engaging With : An Interdisciplinary Dialogue Conference 15-18 July 2019

In Conjunction with ICAS 11 16-19 July 2019

Leiden The Netherlands Engaging With Vietnam: An examined the intersections between these Interdisciplinary Dialogue (EWV) two forms of knowledge production, as well as knowledge production in tourism, Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary development and sustainability (#9, Dialogue, founded in 2008, is an annual University of Social Sciences and Humanities multi-disciplinary conference that examines HCMC, Thu Dau Mot University – Binh Duong, issues of knowledge production and knowledge and An Giang Province, 2017/2018). mobility concerning Vietnam (in the broadest and most inclusive sense of that term). Finally, to mark its tenth anniversary, EWV re-engaged with one of its core interests, The conference series is the brainchild of Dr. dichotomies in knowledge production (#10, Phan Le Ha, a scholar of the sociology of ed- USSH VNU HCMC and the University of Phan ucation and language, international education Thiet, 2018). and globalization studies, formerly lecturing at Monash University in and currently a Each EWV conference brings together invited Professor at the University of Hawai’i at speakers and conference participants from Manoa and a Senior Professor at Universiti multiple disciplines, including sociology, Brunei Darussalam. Since 2011, Liam C. Kelley, education, anthropology, sociology, language an Associate Professor of history at the studies, philosophy, development, literature, University of Hawai’i at Manoa and an politics, history, economics, and the arts. Associate Professor at Universiti Brunei What is more, EWV is designed in a way that Darussalam, has been assisting as a encourages participants to take part in the co-organizer. entire conference, which now can often run for Each EWV conference focuses on a theme several days of keynote presentations, panels, and welcomes participants from any field to talk shows, activities and events. Such address the theme and to engage with each engagement enables the conference’s wide other’s work. The first two conferences were range of participants, from PhD candidates held in 2010 at Monash University in and independent scholars to senior professors Melbourne, Australia and at the University and professionals, to engage in extensive and of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam constructive dialogues in an environment that National University in where the core is simultaneously rigorous and convivial. issues of knowledge production and Indeed, for many participants, EWV has knowledge mobility with regards to Vietnam become much more than a conference. It is were examined. now for many a “family.” The conference then examined such topics as This year, held in conjunction with ICAS 11, we East-West binaries in knowledge production welcome participants of ICAS to join the in and about Vietnam (#3, Hanoi, 2011), how Engaging With Vietnam family as we focus in knowledge production in and about Vietnam this 11th EWV conference (15-18 July) on the has been affected by Vietnam’s integration into theme of “Vietnam in Europe, Europe in the global world of academia (#5, Thai Nguyen Vietnam: Identity, Transnationality and Mobility University, 2013), and the role that the mobility of People, Ideas and Practices across Time and of knowledge has played in this transformation Space.” (#7, Ha Noi University of Business and Technology, 2015). See you in Leiden in July!

It has also looked at “Vietnam beyond the Warmest regards, boundaries” (#4, The East-West Center, Honolulu, 2012) and the “frontiers and Phan Le Ha and Liam C. Kelley, peripheries” of Vietnam (#6, University of Founders, Organizers and Convenors of Engag- Oregon, 2014) in both the literal and ing With Vietnam, on behalf of the organizing symbolic senses of these terms. team and our collaborating partners

The conference has also focused on engagingwithvietnam.org “scholarship and the arts” (#8, University of engagingwithvietnamconference.org 1 Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, 2016) and “Vietnam in Europe, Europe in Vietnam: Identity, Transnationality and Mobility of People, Ideas and Practices across Time and Space”

The Conference at a Glance day one (15 July) day three (17 July) 8:00-9:00 Registration 9:00-10:45 Parallel Sessions 9:00-10:00 Keynote Address 10:45-11:15 Morning Break 10:00-10:30 Welcome & Opening 11:15-13:00 Two Featured Sessions & 10:30-10:45 Morning Break Discussions (Back to Back) 10:45-13:00 Parallel Sessions 13:00-14:45 Lunch 13:00-14:30 Lunch & Tour of Ongoing Exhibitions 14:45-16:30 Engaging With Vietnam Featured 14:30-15:30 Publications on Vietnam & Meeting Roundtable and Performance (Back to Back) with NIAS Press 16:30-17:00 Afternoon Break 15:30-16:30 Keynote Address 17:00-18:45 Engaging With Vietnam Publication 16:30-16:45 Afternoon Break Initiatives 16:45-19:00 Parallel Sessions + Live Sketching, Calligraphic Writing & Academic Conversations

day two (16 July) day four (18 July) 9:00-9:10 Opening of ICAS Film Festival 9:10-11:15 Screening of “Công Binh: Đêm dài Đông 9:00-17:00 Display of Artworks and Dương/La longue nuit indochinoise” Costume Collections 11:15-11:30 Morning Break 10:45-11:15 Morning Break 11.30-12:30 Featured Talk Following the Screening 11:15-13:00 Roundtable Discussion 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:00-14:45 Lunch 13:30-15:15 Parallel Sessions 14:45-16:30 ICAS Parallel Sessions 15:15-15:45 Afternoon Break 16:30-17:00 Afternoon Break 15:45-16:15 Parade from conference venues to 17:00-18:45 ICAS Parallel Sessions Hooglandse Kerk for Welcome Ceremony 16:15-17:00 Musical Performance Engaging With Vietnam Participants can also join 17:00-18:00 Words of Welcome all activities included in the ICAS 11 Program from 18:00-18:45 IBP + Announcement ICAS 12 16-19 July. And be sure not to miss the Closing 18:25-20:15 Welcome Reception Party on 19 July @ 20:00 organized by ICAS!!

2 10:45-13:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS (Multiple Rooms in Oude Sterrewacht; Session day one Numbers follow ICAS numbering) 15 JULY (OPEN TO EWV & ICAS PARTICIPANTS) SESSION 1 15 July / 10:45 – 13:00 / Oude Sterrewacht, B.104 Location: Oude Sterrewacht (Old Observatory), Cold War Relations and Legacies, and ‘New’ Sterrewachtlaan 11, 2311 GP Leiden Mobilities

CHAIR 8:00-9:00 REGISTRATION & MORNING Gerard Sasges - National University of Singapore TEA/COFFEE (Oude Sterrewacht, B.008) Vietnam’s Voyage into Space; Motives and Pathways Towards building a New Satellite Technology Powerhouse 9:00-10:00 Keynote Address Leon T. Hauser - Leiden University (Oude Sterrewacht, B.104) “We provide assistance to the fighting Vietnam in all possible forms, in size that we can afford”: Support of the Polish People’s Republic for the DRV during the Vietnam War Jarema Słowiak - Jagiellonian University keynote Legacies of Eastern European Education: University Degrees and Political Manifestos. “Welfare, Inequality, and Circulation of Ideas between Poland and Vietnam Grazyna Szymanska-Matusiewicz - University Opportunity in Marketizing of Warsaw Vietnam" Brokered Education as a Migration Industry: Comparative Perspectives on International Student SPEAKER Migration from Vietnam to and Japan Jonathan London - University of Leiden Tran An Huy - University of Duisburg-Essen CHAIR Education Export: Destination Vietnam Liam C. Kelley - University of Hawaii at Minna Hakkarainen - University of Helsinki Manoa

SESSION 2 10:00-10:30 WELCOME & OPENING 15 July / 10:45 – 13:00 / Oude Sterrewacht, C.003 (Oude Sterrewacht, B.104) Cosmopolitan Texts Founders of EWV CHAIR Phan Le Ha and Liam C. Kelley - University William F. Pore - Pusan National University of Hawaii at Manoa & Universiti Brunei Reinterpreting the Past for the Future: Study on the Darussalam Historical Writings of Phan Boi Chau and Hoang Cao Convener of ICAS11 Khai Philippe Peycam - Director of IIAS, Leiden Ran Tai - University of Leiden Vietnamese Ambassador to the Netherlands Stories and Chronicle in Duoc Tue Magazine (1934- Madame Ngo Thi Hoa 1945) Ninh Thi Sinh - Hanoi Pedagogical University 2 Western Civilisation through the Vision of 10:30-10:45 Morning Break Vietnamese Confucian Intellectuals in the (Oude Sterrewacht, B.008) Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Nguyen Huu Su - SOAS London 3 The Cosmopolitanism of Ethics and Place in Elusive Victims? Anti-Trafficking and Vietnamese Colonized East/Southeast Asia as Observed in the Migrants in the UK Writings of Early Twentieth Century Korean and Valentine Gavard-Suaire - Royal Holloway, Vietnamese Intellectuals University of London William F. Pore - Pusan National University Illegal Vietnamese in Europe: Borderless, Lawless, Learning and Absorbing Western Science and and Social Remittance Technology in the Tu Duc Era from the Viewpoint Le Thanh Hai - Independent Researcher of the Nguyen Dynasty’s Official Records of History Vietnamese “Modern Slaves”?: Agency & Precarity Hoang Phuong Mai - Institute of Sino-Nom in Nail Salons, Cannabis Farms and the UK Studies Immigration System Tamsin Barber - Oxford Brookes University SESSION 3 The Best Way to Begin to Understand Citizenship 15 July / 10:45 – 13:00 / Oude Sterrewacht, C.102 is by Considering What It is Not, Using Vietnamese Boat People in the UK as a Case Study Identity, Memory and Ideology Haewon Lee - University of Social Sciences & CHAIR Humanities, VNU Hanoi Catherine Earl - Independent Researcher Ho Chi Minh: Practice, Theory, and the Linking of SESSION 5 Marxist Self-Criticism and Confucian Self- 15 July / 10:45 – 13:00 / Oude Sterrewacht, C.006 Cultivation Kevin Pham - University of California, Riverside Language Issues, Pedagogy, Education and Mobility Memory and Identity in the Work of Tran Duc Thao Richard Quang-Anh Tran - Ca’Foscari University CHAIR of Venice Le Thuy Linh - Monash University Folk Culture Subjects in Compositions in the Early Exploring Students’ Positive Emotions in English Days of Tân nhạc Việt Nam (New Music of Language Learning in Vietnamese Contexts Vietnam): The Indigenization of Western Melodies Using Written Narratives in Folk Culture Lyrics Nguyen Thi Anh Hong - Massey University Nguyen Minh Tien - University of Social Sciences English in Vietnam: Past, Present, and Future & Humanities, VNU HCMC Mai Nguyen - University of Edinburgh

In Search for a Hybrid Self in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Vietnamese EFL Lecturers’ Perceptions and The Sympathizer Practices about Intercultural Communicative Masami Usui - Doshisha University Competence: A Survey Study Nguyen Thi Thuy Lan - The University of Cultural Capital and Preservation of Cultural Values Auckland across Generations: Vietnamese Refugee Families in Europe or Asia? Teachers’ Assessment Literacy Australia and CEFR for Japanese Language Teaching in Tran Thi Thanh Giang - Hanoi University of Vietnam Culture Kayoko Hashimoto - The University of Queensland

SESSION 4 Neoliberalism Versus Confucianism in Vietnamese HE: Bridging the Missing Link? 15 July / 10:45 – 13:00 / Oude Sterrewacht, C.104 Ngo Thanh Ha - The University of New South Migrants on Both Sides of the Law Wales CHAIR John Kleinen - University of Amsterdam 13.00-14.30 LUNCH + COFFEE/TEA What’s love got to do with it? Narratives of Sex, (Oude Sterrewacht, B.008) Money and Morality from the Case Study of Vietnamese Migrants in Moscow Lan Anh Hoang - The University of Melbourne + EXHIBITION TOUR (Oude Sterrewacht) 4 14:30-15:30 PUBLICATIONS ON EWV Exhibitions VIETNAM & MEETING WITH NIAS (Oude Sterrewacht) PRESS (Oude Sterrewacht, B.104) C.002: Collection of Vietnam’s Nguyễn Dynasty Era Costume Sets (Ao Dai) made 14:30-15:15 Brief introduction of recently by Ỷ Vân Hiên Group (open 15-17 July) published and upcoming books on Vietnam and on Vietnam and other contexts H.013: Photos & Artwork from Artists and Art Spaces (open 15-17 July) + Silk paintings from Bui Tien Tuan Catherine Earl (2018). Mythbusting

+ Selected collection of urban spaces Vietnam: Facts, Fictions, Fantasies. places Copenhagen: NIAS Press. in Vu Duc Chien’s sketches Tamsin Barber (2015). Oriental Identities + “In the footsteps: Hồ Chí Minh in France,” in Super-Diverse Britain: Young historical and contemporary photos by Vietnamese in London. UK: Rex Eaton PalgraveMacmillan. + Selected calligraphic works from Nguyen Huu Su Gerard Sasges (2017). Imperial Intoxication: Alcohol and the Making of B.005: “Unlearning and Learning,” Exhibit Colonial Indochina. Honolulu: University and Film Project, curated by Cuong Pham- of Hawaii Press. Nguyen Huu Su-Phan Le Ha (open 15-17 July) Jonathan London (2019). Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam. UK & US: + the making and screening of a film (the Routledge. film is also introduced in Panel 18 “Vietnam and the World: Past to Present, Memory and War, Language and Soft Kayoko Hashimoto & Van-Trao Nguyen Power,” 17 July / 9:00-10:45 / Oude (Eds.) (2018). Professional Development Sterrewacht, C.104) of English Language Teaching in Asia: Lessons from Japan and Vietnam. UK & + a display of archival materials US: Routledge. (with some from Non Native Native Art Space, the Netherlands) Phan Le Ha (2017). Transnational Education Crossing ‘Asia’ and ‘the West’: + a presentation of calligraphic work in Adjusted Desires, Transformative various languages Mediocrity, and Neo-colonial Disguise. UK & US: Routledge. B.006: “Vietnam’s Central Highlands: A Dialogue of Art and Scholarship,” Curated Phan Le Ha & Doan Ba Ngoc (Eds.) by Pho Ben Doi, Urban Sketchers Vietnam, (in-press, 2020). Higher Education in & Engaging With Vietnam (open 15-17) Market-Oriented Socialist Vietnam: New + display of artwork and screening Players, Discourses and Practices. US: of music videos/video clips/video arts PalgraveMacmillan. that are centered on life, nature, inspirations as well as pressing issues in Vietnam’s Central Highlands 15:15-15:30 Meeting with Gerald Jackson from NIAS Press

5 15:30-16:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS SESSION 7 (Oude Sterrewacht, B.104) 15 July / 16:45 – 19:00 / Oude Sterrewacht, B.104 Self Searching in Writing, Multi Forms of

(Urban) Identity, and Ethnic and Cultural keynote Expressions CHAIR “Days of Future Past: July 1980 Tamsin Barber - Oxford Brookes University and Visions of Vietnam’s Claiming Visibility though Pan-Ethnicity: The Socialist Modernity” Experiences and Identities of the Second- Generation Vietnamese in Britain SPEAKER Tamsin Barber - Oxford Brookes University Gerard Sasges - National University of Second Generation in Russia: Negotiating Singapore Dichotomies of Ethnic and Civic CHAIR Anna Tuzova - European University at Saint Liam C. Kelley - University of Hawaii at Petersburg Manoa “De nos vies…quelques traits”: An Artist Video (English Subtitles) 16:30-16:45 AFTERNOON BREAK Myriam Dao - Independent Artist (Oude Sterrewacht, B.008) “The Vanishing Village”: A Documentary by John Kleinen 16:45-19:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS John Kleinen - Amsterdam Institute for Social (Multiple Rooms) Science Research

SESSION 6 15 July / 16:45 – 19:00 / Oude Sterrewacht, C.003

Issues Surrounding Arts, Art Practices, SESSION 8 Festivals and Societies 15 July / 16:45 – 19:00 / Oude Sterrewacht, C.102 CHAIR Gendered Economies and Choice, Employ- Minna Hakkarainen - University of Helsinki ment and Environment Issues Dancing Sideways to Move Forward, Imagining CHAIR Sustainable Future Communities in Vietnam through Bi-Lateral Cultural Engagement: A Case Catherine Earl - Independent Researcher Study Examining Public-Private Partnerships The Feminization of Employment through using European Models of Creative Collaboration Export-led Strategies: Evidence from Vietnam Jane Gavan - University of Sydney Thi Anh-Dao Tran - IRASEC Adaptation and Collaboration of Vietnamese The Role of Microfinance to Empower Women: Theater Global Sustainable Perspectives in the Case of Yuko Saito-Nobe - Taisho University Vietnam Good Idea! Long Bui-Thanh - Technological University Dublin Ronald Bellemans - Author Female Life Courses, Choice and Work in Vietnam Water Puppetry is Vietnam, Vietnam is Water Eva Fuhrmann - University of Cologne Puppetry: Challenging the Discourse on What The Politics of Fertility Control among Ethnic Defines Vietnam through Theatre Minority Population in the Mountainous Region in Michelle Huynh - University of Hawaii at Manoa Vietnam - A Case of the Hmong Preservation and Exploitation of Traditional Nguyen Thi Le - Kyoto University Festivals in Vietnam today, with Observations of Air Pollution in Hanoi Capital of Vietnam: Issues, Some Festivals in the Northern Part Challenges and Local Efforts Lu Thi Thanh Le - University of Social Sciences Duong Van Thanh - School of International & Humanities, VNU Hanoi Training 6 SESSION 9 SESSION 10 15 July / 16:45 – 19:00 / Oude Sterrewacht, C.104 15 July / 16:45 – 19:00 / Oude Sterrewacht, C.006

Transnational Lives and Expressions Language, Mobility, Education, and Cultural CHAIR Identity Across Borders, Ethnicities Le Thanh Hai - Independent Researcher and Politics Europeans in Vietnam: Transnational Mobility, CHAIR Integration, Identity - Case Study in Binh Duong Trang Schwenke-Lam - Hamburg University Tran Hanh Minh Phuong - Thu Dau Mot University Extracurricular Tutoring as an Educational Investment Strategy of German, Turkish and Transnational Life Trajectories – Travel Vietnamese Families in Germany Experiences of German-Born Vietnamese in Trang Schwenke-Lam - Hamburg University Their Ancestral Homeland Max Müller - Georg-August-University Investment of Vietnamese Families in their Göttingen Children’s Language Development in Germany Antje Hansen - Hamburg University Vietnamese Women Writers’ Travel Writing on Europe Vietnamese Language in Social Mobility Tran Le Hoa Tranh - University of Social Vo Kim Ha - Thu Dau Mot University Sciences and Humanities, VNU HCMC Ethnic Minority Women in Global Tourism The Construction of Identity: The Case of Context: Obscuring or Defining their Vietnamese Women Living in Triveneto Area, Cultural Identity? Italy Dang Thi Phuong Anh - Hanoi National Trang Huyen Dang - New Horizons and University of Education University of Trento Leading a Vietnamese Life in Europe - The Little Socio-Economic-Political Functions of Known Story of South Vietnamese First Lady Vietnamese Restaurants in Budapest Madame Nhu Linh Tong - Central European University Trang Hong Vu - Vietnamcentre.org & Yenching Academy of Peking University

We really need to finish and leave the building by 19:00 so that the kind staff can lock up and go home. But we've worked hard, so let's go outside and enjoy beautiful Leiden!

7 SESSION 91 16 July / 13:30 – 15:15 / Oude Sterrewacht, C.003 day two Roundtable Discussion on (re)Writing Vietnam from the Margins 16 JULY (OPEN TO EWV & ICAS PARTICIPANTS) (Language: Vietnamese)

Morning Location: Lipsius Building, CHAIR Tri Phuong - Yale University, USA Cleveringaplaats 1,2311 BD Afternoon Location: Oude Sterrewacht (Old DISCUSSANTS Observatory), Sterrewachtlaan 11, 2311 GP Chan Phuong - Poet, USA Doan Anh Thuan - Writer, France Pham Thi Hoai - Writer, Germany 9:00-9:10 OPENING OF ICAS FILM FESTIVAL (Roshni Sengupta – ICAS) SESSION 92 (Lipsius, 0.19) 16 July / 13:30 – 15:15 / Oude Sterrewacht, C.006 9:10-11:15 INTRODUCTION & Urbanism, Youth and Cultural Capital: At SCREENING of “Công Binh: Đêm dài Home and Abroad Đông Dương/La longue nuit CHAIR indochinoise” by Director Lam Le Jonathan London - University of Leiden (Co-hosted by EWV and ICAS) Coming (out) to the City: Rural to Urban Migrations (Lipsius, 0.19 ) of Vietnamese LGBTIQ Youth Ha Hoang Yen - Monash University 11:15-11:30 MORNING BREAK Collaboratively Reimaging Vietnamese Urbanism 11.30-12:30 FEATURED TALK Bruno De Meulder & Shannon Kelly - University FOLLOWING THE SCREENING of Leuven (Lipsius, 0.19) SESSION 93 16 July / 13:30 – 15:15 / Oude Sterrewacht, B.104

featured talk The Side Streets and Backstreets of History CHAIR Discussing “Công Binh John Kleinen - University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands CHAIRS Side Streets of History: A Dutchman’s Stereoscopic Liam C. Kelley and Phan Le Ha (UHM) Views on Colonial Vietnam John Kleinen - University of Amsterdam GUESTS Lam Le (Director), In the Footsteps: Royalty and Revolutionaries in France Tri Phuong (Yale University), Rex Eaton - Independent Scholar Webby Kalikiti (University of Zambia), Emmanuelle Peyvel (University of Western Vietnamese Deities in the Eyes of Early Western Britanny), & Visitors Tran Nguyen Khang (USSH, VNU HCMC) Nguyen Thu - Institute of Sino-Nom Studies Vietnamese Subjects of the French in Siam: Gangsters, Bootleggers and Threat to the Siamese 12:30-13:30 LUNCH State, 1893 -1904 (Various lunch options will be suggested) Morragotwong Phumplab - National University of Singapore 13:30-15:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS Sujane Kanparit - Sarakadee Magazine (Multiple Rooms in Oude Sterrewacht) 8 SESSION 94 SESSION 96 16 July / 13:30 – 15:15 / Oude Sterrewacht, C.102 16 July / 13:30 – 15:15 / Oude Sterrewacht, C.005

Global Tourism, Love and Discourse Identity, International Relations, and CHAIR Cross-Border Faiths Tamsin Barber - Oxford Brooks University CHAIR Negotiating Discourses: Tracing the European Flows Tran Nguyen Khang - University of Social in the Heritagization of Cultural World Heritage in Sciences & Humanities, VNU HCMC Hue, Vietnam Vietnam and Regional Security Architecture: Mai Le Quyen - University of Bonn Balancing and Identity Legends of Vietnam Tran Bang - Université 2 Panthéon-Assas Adam Schoene - Cornell University Non-Governmental Cooperation between France A Durasian Tour: A Postcolonial Reading of Tourism, and Vietnam: A Typical Example of EU-Vietnam between France and Vietnam Relations in Southeast Asia Emmanuelle Peyvel - University of Western Ly Quyet Tien - Ho Chi Minh City Open University Brittany The Whale Cult: An Example of Traditional Maritime Cult Beyond all Borders Nguyen Quoc-Thanh - Institut d’Asie Orientale

15:15-15:45 AFTERNOON BREAK SESSION 95 (KOG: Kamerlingh Onnes Building, 16 July / 13:30 – 15:15 / Oude Sterrewacht, C.104 Steenschuur 25, 2311 ES – where the parade starts) Alternative Forms/Spaces of Active Citizenship 15:45-16:15 Parade from conference CONVENERS & CHAIRS venues to Welcome Ceremony a Minna Hakkarainen - University of Helsinki & Catherine Earl - Independent Researcher Hooglandse Kerk

When We Work Together: Observations of Persons 16:15-17:00 Musical Performance of Vietnamese Origin and Their Collaboration with 17:00-18:00 Words of Welcome and within Finnish Civil Society Organizations 18:00-18:45 IBP + Announcement ICAS 12 Minna Hakkarainen - University of Helsinki 18:45-20:15 Welcome Reception Rhythms, Relations and Reach: Active Citizenship and Urban Mobilities of Globalising Ho Chi Minh City Catherine Earl - Independent Researcher “Smart Cities” between Europe and Vietnam: Trav- eling Urban Forms and the Question of Develop- ment Mirjam Le & Franziska Nicolaisen - University of Passau Threatened Identities Following Social Exclusion in Singapore Sylvia Huwaë - Asia Research Institute

9 “Unlearning and Learning”: A Documentary on Language Learning among Varied Vietnamese Communities in the UK day three Cuong Pham - Independent Artist and Nguyen Huu Su - SOAS 17 JULY (OPEN TO EWV & ICAS PARTICIPANTS)

Location: Oude Sterrewacht (Old Observatory), SESSION 139 Sterrewachtlaan 11, 2311 GP Leiden 17 July / 9:00 – 10:45 / Oude Sterrewacht, C.102

9:00-10:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Vietnamese Outside ‘Home’ across Europe (Multiple Rooms in Oude Sterrewacht) and Asia

CHAIR Richard Quang-Anh Tran - Ca’Foscari University SESSION 137 of Venice 17 July / 9:00 – 10:45 / Oude Sterrewacht, B.104 French Indochina and the Germans (c. 1860-1914) Vietnam and the Politics of Daring to Imagine Bert Becker - The University of Hong Kong CHAIR Jonathan London - University of Leiden The Presence of Germans in Colonial Indochina: The Mobility of Those Without Colonies Vietnam’s Incipient Political Public Sphere Nguyen Thi Nga - Hanoi Pedagogical Thiem Bui - Vietnam Institute for Legislative University 2 Studies & Jonathan London - Leiden University Imagining Political Change: ‘Peaceful Evolution’ Retelling the Stories of Vietnamese Refugee Entre- and ‘Self-Transformation’ in the Current Situation preneurs – The Entrepreneurial Ecosystems of the Eva Hansson - Stockholm University Refugee Camps in Hong Kong Caleb C Y Kwong - University of Essex Imagining Lives Beyond the Pale: Non-Economic Concerns in Vietnam The Vietnamese Virgin Mary in the U.S. and Oscar Salemink - University of Copenhagen Germany: Transnational Religious Network and Vietnam – Globalized Party-State Diasporic Nationalism among Vietnamese Börje Ljunggren - Former Swedish Ambassador Refugees to Vietnam and China Thien-Huong Ninh - Cosumnes River College

10.45-11.15 MORNING BREAK SESSION 138 (Oude Sterrewacht, B.008) 17 July / 9:00 – 10:45 / Oude Sterrewacht, C.104 11:15-13:00 TWO FEATURED Vietnam and the World: Past to Present, SESSIONS & DISCUSSIONS Memory and War, Language and Soft Power (Back to Back in Oude Sterrewacht, B.104)

CHAIR Tran Nguyen Khang - University of Social SESSION 180 Sciences & Humanities, VNU-HCMC 17 July / 11:15 – 13:00 / Oude Sterrewacht, B.104

The Controversy over Soft Power between the Featured Panel 1: The Shadow of European Empires in Colonial Countries: A Case Vietnamese History and the Stories Study of France and Vietnam Viet Kieu Can Tell in Film (11:15-12:00) Tran Nguyen Khang - University of Social CHAIR Sciences & Humanities, VNU-HCMC Liam C. Kelley - Unive rsity of Hawaii at Manoa SPECIAL GUEST Vietnam’s Past and Its Future Lam Le - Film Director Vishnu Satya - University of Southern California 10 Featured Panel 2: Phan Le Ha’s Short 16:30-17:00 AFTERNOON BREAK Semi-Academic Novel “Phia Sau Nhung Canh (Oude Sterrewacht, B.008) Cua, Behind Doors/Windows”: Gender, Sex- ualities, Social Class, History, and Transna- SESSION 265 tional Mobilities in Contemporary Vietnam (12:00-13:00) 17 July / 17:00 – 18:45 / Oude Sterrewacht, B.104

CHAIR Engaging With Vietnam Publication Lan Anh Hoang - University of Melbourne Initiatives

CONVENERS Part 1 (12:00-12:20): Commentary by Lan Anh Liam C. Kelley & Phan Le Ha - University Hoang - University of Melbourne of Hawaii at Manoa, Tamsin Barber - Oxford Brookes University, Gerard Sasges - Part 2 (12:20-12:40): Discussion with Invited National University of Singapore Guests and on “Bảy Nổi Ba Chìm / Seven Floating Three Sinking”- A Documentary Made by Ngo Thu Huong & Trieu Minh Hai, 17:00-18:45 ENGAGING WITH Independent Artists - Hanoi VIETNAM - LIVE SKETCHING, CAL- LIGRAPHIC WRITING & ACADEMIC Part 3 (12:40-13:00): Open to Audience CONVERSATIONS (Open Space in Front of Oude Sterrewacht) 13:00-14:45 LUNCH ARTISTS & SKETCHERS (Various lunch options will be suggested) Bui Tien Tuan, Vu Duc Chien, Khieu Xuan Phong, Nguyen The Thong, Nguyen Trung Hien, Nguyen Huu Su 14:45-16:30 ENGAGING WITH VIETNAM FEATURED ROUNDTABLE AND PERFORMANCE

SESSION 222 17 July / 14:45 – 16:30 / Oude Sterrewacht, B.104

Part 1: Examining the Projection of the ÁO DÀI in Cinema, Literature and the Arts: Modernity, Identity, History, Politics, and Gen- der Issues (14:45-16:15) CHAIR Phan Le Ha - University of Hawaii at Manoa DISCUSSANTS Lam Le - Film Director, France, Tran Le Hoa Tranh - USSH VNU HCMC, Richard Quang Anh Tran - Ca’Foscari University of Venice, & Nguyen Huu Su - SOAS

Part 2: Poetry Recital and Dance (16:15- 16:30)

PERFORMERS John Mutie - Independent Artist/Poet, Kenya, & William Julius Manyalila - Independent Dancer, Tanzania

11 Acknowledgements

day four We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Dr. Philippe Peycam and Dr. Paul van der 18 JULY (OPEN TO EWV & ICAS PARTICIPANTS) Velde of the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) for graciously welcoming us to Location: Lipsius Building, Cleveringaplaats 1, hold EWV in conjuction with ICAS. 2311 BD We also wish to recognize and express our extreme appreciation to Martina van den Haak and her team of staff at IIAS for their incredible 9:00-17:00 DISPLAY OF ARTWORKS dedication and hard work. We would not have AND COSTUME COLLECTIONS been able to organize this conference without (Lipsius, 0.30) their boundless assistance and support.

Collection of Vietnam’s Nguyen Dynasty Last but not least, we would also like to recog- nize and thank Dr. Le Thuy Linh who has served Costume Sets (Ao Dai) made by Y Van Hien as EWV secretary since its inception. Thank you Group once again, Linh!

Selected Photos & Artworks from Artists There are of course many others who we wish and Photographers to thank, but we will save that for the conference. “Unlearning and Learning” Project (continued), curated by Cuong Pham, Phan Le Ha and Liam C. Kelley, Nguyen Huu Su & Phan Le Ha Founders, Organizers and Convenors of Engaging With Vietnam (The artworks will also be placed opposite the doors of 0.30, 0.01 and along the wall of 0.01)

10:45-11:15 MORNING BREAK

SESSION 339 18 July / 11:15 – 13:00 / Lipsius, 0.30

Higher Education in Asia: Embracing and En- countering an Imaginary West

CHAIR Stephanie Kim, Georgetown Universityw DISCUSSANTS Terri Kim, University of East London, Phan Le Ha, University of Hawaii at Manoa & Universiti Brunei Darussalam Cora Xu, Keele University

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