SYMPOSIUM - The Vietnam Inheritance Cultural, social and political legacies of the Vietnam War in Australia: An Interdisciplinary Symposium marking the 35th anniversary of the end of the war, 29-30 April 2010 Monash University [21.03.2010]
The Vietnam Inheritance
Cultural, social and political legacies of the Vietnam War in Australia:
An Interdisciplinary Symposium marking the 35th anniversary of the end of the war
Thursday 29 & Friday 30 April 2010
Monash University, Caulfield Campus
Keynote speaker - Paul Ham, author of Vietnam: The Australian War (2007).
The Symposium features a number of AASRN members:
Dean Chan with a paper entitled: ‘Between the Diasporic and the Transnational: Exhibiting Vietnamese Subjectivity in Asian Australia and Asian America’
Dominic Golding on ‘VADs Operation Reunite Adoptee Tour: From opening drinks at the Rex, the C5 memorial, and a Soccer match: Activism and history and return’
and
Hoa Pham with a paper entitled ‘“membering” the American/Vietnam War – Vietnamese-Australian Cultural production’
The symposium provides an opportunity for scholars from a range of disciplines to reflect on the impact of the war and its aftermath in Australia on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of its conclusion. In particular, speakers at the symposium will address the cultural, social and political legacies of the war in Australia. Topics to be covered by speakers at the symposium include:
- the legacy of the war on Australian media, journalism and reportage of war and other emergencies
- post-war Vietnamese migration to Australia and the Vietnamese diaspora
- the legacy of anti-war political mobilisation, and the legacy of the National Service scheme and its opponents
- the war and Australian culture (including Vietnamese-Australian cultural production and literary, visual and filmic representations of Vietnam in Australia)
- the legacy of the Saigon babylift on intercountry adoption to Australia
- the war and tourism
Proceedings will commence on the afternoon of Thursday 29 April and continue with a full day of papers on Friday 30 April.
Details of the symposium including a draft program can be found on:
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/psi/vietnam/index.php
Registration:
Registration is free however if you wish to attend please contact Jan Boey (janice.boey@buseco.monash.edu.au) as soon as possible and no later than Thursday 22 April, as numbers are needed for catering purposes.