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Vietnamese Poetry 4.0

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:October 20, 2019
Post category:Vietnamese Poetry 4.0
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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

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:October 18, 2019
Post category:Content Asian Studies
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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

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:September 4, 2019
Post category:Fringe History Vietnamese Early History
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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

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:September 3, 2019
Post category:Thailand Video Interview
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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…

Vietnamese Prehistory and International Scholarship – Part 2: Thought & Solheim

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:August 28, 2019
Post category:Fringe History Vietnamese Early History
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In 1971, archaeologist Wilhelm "Bill" Solheim made some comments in the magazine National Geographic about the origins of agriculture. His comments were premature, and turned out to be false. Then…

Vietnamese Prehistory and International Scholarship – Part 1: Introduction

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:August 25, 2019
Post category:Fringe History Vietnamese Early History
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For the past half century or so there has been an idea circulating in the Vietnamese world that holds that the ancestors of the Vietnamese were the first people to…

Tiền sử Việt Nam và học thuật quốc tế (phần 1)

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:August 23, 2019
Post category:Fringe History Vietnamese Early History
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This is my first attempt at making a video in Vietnamese. . . You gotta start somewhere. . . In recent years some Vietnamese people interested in history, both inside…

How May I Help You?

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:July 10, 2019
Post category:Content Asian Studies
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Following up on the ideas in the previous post about how valuable it is to try to understand what "users" of a product/service actually think, and given that I've been…

This Blog Needs UX!! Academia Could Use Some Too!!

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:July 10, 2019
Post category:Content Asian Studies
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I keep thinking about the times we are living in, about how dramatically technology is transforming our lives, and about how the professional world I inhabit (academia/the Humanities/area studies) does…

Engaging With Vietnam #11 in Leiden

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:July 10, 2019
Post category:Engaging With Vietnam
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I've been in conference-organization mode, but the conference is now ready for takeoff. For anyone interested, the program for the 11th Engaging With Vietnam conference is available here.