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September 15, 2009
Call for papers: Conference-workshop "Beyond Borders: Alternative Voices
and Histories of the Vietnamese Diaspora", University of Washington,
Seattle, March 4-7, 2010
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From: Christoph Giebel <giebel@u.washington.edu>
International Call for Papers
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies, in conjunction with the Walter
Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington,
Seattle (USA), invites academics, advanced graduate students, and
independent scholars to submit paper proposals for the conference-workshop
"BEYOND BORDERS: ALTERNATIVE VOICES AND HISTORIES OF THE VIETNAMESE
DIASPORA,"
to be held on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington from
Thursday, March 4th, to Sunday, March 7th, 2010.
Organizers and co-coordinators:
Christoph Giebel and Judith Henchy (Univ. of Washington - Seattle)
Co-coordinators and "keynote speakers in dialog":
Mariam B. Lam (Univ. of California - Riverside) and Jack Yeager (Louisiana
State University). These two scholars of the Vietnamese diaspora will help
frame the conference-workshop with distinct Francophone and American
perspectives.
GENERAL CONCEPT: This March 2010 conference-workshop on the Vietnamese
diaspora is the third in a three-part series, constituting a multi-year
research initiative in Viet Nam Studies, "Alternative Voices and Histories
in Viet Nam: Colonial Modernities and Post-colonial Narratives." The
initiative's aims are:
* to bring together scholars from around the world who focus on new
interpretations of Vietnamese history and historiography;
* to provide a forum for recent, disparate work on new sources and
under-researched topics to critically engage with one another;
* and to make the results available to the wider academic community.
Our first and second conference-workshops, "Beyond Teleologies: alternative
voices and histories in colonial Viet Nam" and "Beyond Dichotomies:
alternative voices and histories in post-colonial Viet Nam"
were held in Seattle in March 2007 and May 2008.
The trilogy of conference-workshops is based on the understanding that
modern Vietnamese historiography has been unduly dominated by several
particular and at times overlapping discourses reflective of the prevalent
ideological presumptions of the 20th century, such as those that:
* privilege the perspectives, interests, and actions of a central state or
states;
* impose nationalist and traditionalist notions on Vietnamese history and
culture;
* subsume Vietnamese revolutionary visions and movements solely
under communist teleologies;
* and enforce Cold War rhetorical postures by excluding, externalizing
and de-legitimizing those that do not fit simplistic binaries.
By contrast, the workshops will highlight academic work that complicates,
challenges and counters these paradigms, thereby enriching and expanding our
understanding of the variety of modern Vietnamese historical actors,
factors, and epistemologies, and suggesting the contours of alternative
models.
CALL FOR PAPERS: For this workshop on the Vietnamese diaspora, "Beyond
Borders," we are seeking papers that focus on the disparate margins of
Vietnamese identities. Papers should explore the particular and
multiple histories of Vietnamese overseas sojourn, migration and exile
in early modern, colonial, war time, post-1975, and socialist contexts.
At the same time, contributors can help articulate the initiative's
interest in marginal voices in Vietnamese historiography with the
disciplinary concerns of ethnic and global cultural studies.
Papers might illuminate, among many other possible themes:
* colonial politics of exile and punishment throughout the global French
empire;
* inter-colonial and transnational connections in exile, for example, by
Vietnamese soldiers, workers, students, political activists, prisoners,
travelers, or those subjected to colonial display;
* literary representations of diaspora, from colonialism and the anomie of
"foreigners at home" to the contemporary Vietnamese imaginary of exile and
return;
* diasporic community formations, acculturations, as well as ethnic
enclave politics and economics;
* politically diverse exile groups during the war years and their relations
with post-war refugee communities;
* comparative diasporic work, or multi-sited anthropological research on,
for example, overseas Vietnamese student and migrant/contract
labor populations, adoptees, or transnational out-marriages;
* exposure/isolation of particular demographics: e.g.,
Israeli-Vietnamese, Versailles-New Orleans, or non-identifying diasporic
communities from Viet Nam;
* overseas Vietnamese linkages to Viet Nam, remittances, anti-communist
rhetoric, generational concerns, and educational differences.
In general, the organizers welcome papers on the Vietnamese diaspora,
broadly defined in time and space, that engage a wide range of sources and
literatures, in particular new and under-researched ones.
Please submit, preferably electronically,
(1) a paper abstract,
(2) a brief statement how the paper will engage the larger themes and
concerns of the workshop, and
(3) a short C.V.
BY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2009
to the organizers of the conference series:
Christoph Giebel, Assoc. Prof. of History and International
Studies, <giebel@u.washington.edu> and
Judith Henchy, Head, Southeast Asia Section, University of Washington
Libraries, and Lecturer in International Studies,
<judithh@u.washington.edu>
c/o Center for Southeast Asian Studies
University of Washington, box 353650
Seattle, WA 98195-3650, USA
Participants should agree to submit their draft papers no later than three
weeks prior to the workshop, be willing to provide detailed comments on
other select papers, engage in group deliberations during the entire
workshop, and, if feasible, commit to actively participate in periodic
follow-up discussions and commentary for possible publications. While
graduate students will receive a modest travel subvention from the
organizers, all other participants will be expected to cover their expenses
through other institutional funds.
Christoph Giebel
Judith Henchy
University of Washington - Seattle
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