Professor Lien-Hang T. Nguyen took part in virtual commemorations of Vietnam’s foreign relations on Thursday, August 27 and Friday, August 28 alongside Vietnam’s ambassadors to the United States and United Nations. A news report about the event was published on the website of Vietnam's official newspaper Nhân Dân, and is available here. The article cited Professor Nguyen's … [Read more...]
CANCELLED – LGBTQ Representation in Contemporary Vietnamese Film: A Screening of Song Lang and Chat with Director Leon Le
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join us for a film screening with: Leon Le, Filmmaker and Director and Ying Qian, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University Takuya Tsunoda Assistant Professor of Japanese Film and Media, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University … [Read more...]
“In That Time: Michael O’Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam,” an evening with author Daniel Weiss
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Featuring Daniel Weiss, CEO and President Metropolitan Museum of Art Moderated by: Lien-Hang Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia Columbia University Daniel Weiss’s In That Time tells the story of the American experience in Vietnam … [Read more...]
Student Feature: Thu Anh Le
My journey to the Oral History program and Columbia was almost accidental. I had been doing some social advocacy work in my home country, Vietnam. The organization that I founded, Human Library Vietnam, sought to bring in people of marginalized identities and engage with the public as human “books.” My work there bore many resemblances to the practice of oral history, and when … [Read more...]
”Colloquium on Global Hồ Chí Minh” and the future of international Vietnamese Studies
By Thu Anh Le On the 50th anniversary of the publication of the last will and testament of Hồ Chí Minh (1969 - 2019), Columbia University and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University held a colloquium on his life, career and legacy. Cosponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the Department of History, and the Department of East … [Read more...]
