'Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars' -- Conference schedule
University of Kentucky
Today
(Events in UK Student Center, Room 230, unless otherwise noted)
9-10:30 a.m.: Introduction to a forthcoming book on the Vietnam War. Susan Ferber, Oxford University Press, Marilyn Young, New York University; and Mark Bradley, University of Chicago.
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: U.S. policy during the French war and its aftermath. Mark Lawrence, University of Texas: The United States and the French war, 1945-54; Seth Jacobs, Boston College: No Place to Fight a War: Laos and the Evolution of U.S. policy Toward Vietnam, 1954-63.
1:30-3 p.m.: North and South Vietnamese perspectives. Edward Miller, Dartmouth College: Vision, Power and Agency: The Ascent of Ngo Dinh Diem, 1945-1954;Sophie Quinn-Judge, Temple University, Through a Glass Darkly: Reading the History of the Vietnamese Communist Party, 1945-1975.
3:15-4:45 p.m.: Revisiting the American decision for war. Gareth Porter, Environmental and Energy Study Institute: Explaining the Vietnam War: Dominant and Contending Paradigms; and Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University: There Ain't No Daylight: Lyndon Johnson and the politics of escalation.
5-7 p.m.: Reception. Informal remarks by retired UK historian George C. Herring. Book signing: David Anderson and John Ernst, eds., The War That Never Ends (University Press of Kentucky, 2007).
Saturday
9-10:30 a.m.: Microhistories of the Vietnamese War. David Hunt, University of Massachusetts Boston: Taking Notice of the Everyday; Heonik Kwon, University of Edinburgh: Co So Cach Mang and the Social Network of War.
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: The End of the American war. Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, UK: Cold War Contradictions: Toward an international history of the second Indochina war, 1969-73;Michael Allen, North Carolina State University: Help us tell the truth about Vietnam: POW/MIA politics and the end of the American war.
12:30-2 p.m.: Closing luncheon address. David Elliott, Pomona College: Official history, revisionist history and wild history.
Lexington Herald-Leader (KY)