BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Many\nmyths about Vietnam and the Vietnam War that were created during the war are\nstill widely taught in the US today. This talk presen ts findings based on fresh\nsources from Vietnam that force us to rethink the orthodox view of that event\nconcerning the nature of the conflict fro m the perspective of Vietnamese\nrevolutionaries.Tuong\nVu is Professor an d Department Head of the Political Science Department at the\nUniversity o f Oregon and has held visiting appointments at Princeton University\nand N ational University of Singapore. His research has focused on the\ncomparat ive politics of state formation\, revolutions\, nationalism\, and\ncommuni sm in East and Southeast Asia\, and more recently\, on Vietnam’s modern\nh istory and politics. He is the author or co-editor of seven books and 30\n journal articles and book chapters. Among his recent and forthcoming\npubl ications are “Bringing Empire Back in: The Imperial Origins of Nations in\ nIndochina\,” in Aviel Roshwald\, Cathie Carmichael\, and Matthew D’Auria\ , eds.\nCambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism (Cambridge\, forth coming)\; The\nRepublic of Vietnam\, 1955-1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation-Building\n(Cornell\, 2020)\; and Vietnam’s Communist Revolution: T he Power and Limits of\nIdeology (Cambridge\, 2017). He currently directs the US-Vietnam Research Center\nat the University of Oregon to promote res earch and education on contemporary\nVietnam\, US-Vietnam relations\, and the Vietnamese American community. DTEND:20220217T183000Z DTSTAMP:20260415T071557Z DTSTART:20220217T170000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Rethinking War and Revolution in Vietnam UID:RFCALITEM639118197571548167 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Many\nmyths about Vietnam and the Vietnam W ar that were created during the war are\nstill widely taught in the US tod ay. This talk presents findings based on fresh\nsources from Vietnam that force us to rethink the orthodox view of that event\nconcerning the nature of the conflict from the perspective of Vietnamese\nrevolutionaries.

< p>Tuong\nVu is Professor and Department Head of the Polit ical Science Department at the\nUniversity of Oregon and has held visiting appointments at Princeton University\nand National University of Singapor e. His research has focused on the\ncomparative politics of state formatio n\, revolutions\, nationalism\, and\ncommunism in East and Southeast Asia\ , and more recently\, on Vietnam’s modern\nhistory and politics. He is the author or co-editor of seven books and 30\njournal articles and book chap ters. Among his recent and forthcoming\npublications are “Bringing Empire Back in: The Imperial Origins of Nations in\nIndochina\,” in Aviel Roshwal d\, Cathie Carmichael\, and Matthew D’Auria\, eds.\nCambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism (Cambridge\, forthcoming)\; The\nRe public of Vietnam\, 1955-1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation-Building< /em>\n(Cornell\, 2020)\; and Vietnam’s Communist Revolution: The Power and Limits of\nIdeology (Cambridge\, 2017). He currently directs the US-Vietnam Research Center\nat the University of Oregon to promote resear ch and education on contemporary\nVietnam\, US-Vietnam relations\, and the Vietnamese American community.

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