Engaging With Vietnam #12
Engaging With Vietnam is pleased to announce the call for proposals for the 12th Engaging With Vietnam conference to be held 15-18 October 2020 in Brunei Darussalam.The conference theme is…
New Course: Southeast Asian History and Web Design
After spending years thinking about how to adapt what I do (teach History) in a way that can fit with the world that the Digital Revolution has created, I think…
More Vietnamese Poetry 4.0
My BA degree was in Russian language and literature. As an undergraduate student, I read thousands of pages of Russian novels (in English translation), and I loved every minute of…
The “Fringe History” Of Hà Văn Thùy, Cung Đình Thanh, Lương Kim Định and Lý Đông A
One of the first posts that I ever wrote for this blog was called “Hà Văn Thùy and Ancient Việt Races (Has the BBC Gone Mad?) [5 May 2010]. I…
On Being Southeast Asian and the Bankruptcy of Liberal Persuasion
The other day an article appeared in my Facebook feed called “Being South-East Asian.” It was written by historian, political scientist and public intellectual Farish Noor and published in the…
Chang’an News from Vietnam
I came across a Vietnamese newspaper from the late 1930s-early 1940s called the “Tràng An Báo.” This name is interesting. “Tràng An” is usually written now as “Trường An” and…
Vietnamese Poetry 4.0
I can’t read fiction anymore. When I was young, I found novels to be a great means to “travel” to places (both in the literal and figurative senses) that I…
Moving Forward in the Era of the Decline of Area Studies & the Humanities
For a long time now I've been witnessing a decline in interest in area studies, the Humanities, the field of History, etc., all of the fields that I was trained…
Vietnamese Prehistory and International Scholarship – Part 3: Sauer, Solheim & Hòa Bình
The late archaeologist Wilhelm Solheim would probably be very surprised to find that statements he made way back in 1971 are cited today as "evidence" that the ancestors of the…
Agrarian Transformation in Thailand, and Rural-Urban Interactions
One of the great joys of my work is making videos of conversations with scholars who research about Southeast Asia. It was my great pleasure and honor to recently make…
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