Please join us for a colloquium with:
Pham Quang Minh, Rector, Historian and Political Scientist, Department of International Studies, Vietnam National University
Do Quang Hung, Historian, Department of Political Science, Vietnam National University
Tran Viet Nghia, Historian, Director of the Office for the Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University
Pham Hong Tung, Historian, Director, Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Science, Vietnam National University
Outside Vietnam:
Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, Columbia University
Olga Dror, Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University; Fellow, National Humanities Center (2019-2020)
Pierre Asselin, Professor and Dwight E. Stanford Chair in American Foreign Relations, Department of History, San Diego State University
Alec Holcombe, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ohio University
Held on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Hồ Chí Minh, this international colloquium will interrogate Hồ’s role in the formation of modern Vietnam and explore the country’s position in world affairs in the 20th Century. Participants will share their new multi-lingual and multi-archival research and past works on the life, career, and legacy of Hồ Chí Minh. This colloquium also serves to announce a new partnership between Columbia University and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi.
This is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute 70th Anniversary event.
No registration required.
