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Vietnam is attracting increasing interest from students and researchers around the world, who are drawn to explore an array of topics and themes as diverse and as fascinating as the country itself. Vietnam today offers many new opportunities for research. Changes in the institutional climate, improved bilateral relationships, intensifying linkages and the availability of technologies such as the Internet make the prospects of doing research in Vietnam more feasible and rewarding than ever before.
However, those who do research about or in Vietnam frequently face problems for which their training in a given discipline may not adequately prepare them. Scholars conducting research in Vietnam confront a distinct set of linguistic, methodological, institutional, ethical and practical challenges that are not encountered in other contexts. As Vietnam studies is an emerging field, library resources and expertise on Vietnam are often hard to access in the university departments where students are undertaking their research projects. Many students find that they lack opportunities to share results and discuss methodological problems encountered with scholars who are familiar with the culture, research environment and institutions of the country.
The ANU Vietnam Studies Summer School will provide students a rare chance to immerse themselves in a community of like-minded scholars, access a rich fund of scholarly resources and take part in a program of structured activities that addresses the needs of researchers working on Vietnam.
Partici|ion in the summer school program will enable students to:
The Vietnam Studies Summer School will take a workshop format, divided into nine thematic sessions led by an experienced ANU-based researcher specializing in that area.
All partici|ing students will give a presentation, be it the presentation of a research proposal or report on research findings. Ample opportunities will be provided for feedback and discussion.
Also as a part of this program, participants will be able to consult on an informal basis with an ANU-based Vietnam specialist on aspects of their project. See here for information on Vietnam-related expertise at the ANU.
The Vietnam Studies Summer School is to be attended by students working in the humanities and social sciences on all aspects of Vietnamese language, history, society, politics, culture, the arts, the environment and the economy. The following categories of students will be attending:
Summer school participants are drawn from a wide geographical range. They include twenty-four Australia-based students from ten different institutions of higher learning. In addition sixteen participants will join the school from the UK, The Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Singapore the USA, and Vietnam.
Dominic Blaettler
PhD candidate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford
Margaret Barnhill Bodemer
MA candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Rachel Elaine Chaney
Volunteers in Asia (US) and the Institute of Ethnology, Hanoi
John Chapman
PhD candidate, Religious Studies Department SOAS
Haydon L. Cherry
MA candidate, Department of History, National University of Singapore
Michael Crestani
PhD candidate, School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne
Bradley Camp Davis
PhD candidate, Department of History, University of Washington
Ngoc Ba Doan
MA candidate, Educational Studies, Graduate School of Education, University of Adelaide
Minh Duong
Summer Research Scholar, Centre for Democratic Institutions, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU
Brett Dwyer
PhD candidate, Anthropology, Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory
Catherine Earl
PhD candidate, Asian Studies, School of Social Sciences, Victoria University, Melbourne
Christina Firpo
PhD candidate, Southeast Asian History, University of California, LA
Rupert Friederichsen
PhD candidate, The Uplands Program: Research for sustainable land use and development in mountainous regions of Southeast Asia, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Minna Hakkarainen
PhD candidate, Institute for Asian and African Studies, University of Helsinki
Joseph Hannah
PhD candidate, Department of Geography, University of Washington
Michael Karadjis
PhD candidate, Department of Political and Social Change, RSPAS
Le Phu Vo
PhD candidate, Department of Geographical and Environmental Studies, University of Adelaide
Le Viet Thuy
PhD candidate, School of Business Economics, Flinders University
Claudine Ang Tsu Lyn
MA candidate, Department of History, National University of Singapore
Le Anh Pham Lobb
PhD candidate, Demography and Sociology, RSSS
Sally |ricia Marsh
PhD candidate, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Sydney
Anh Tuan Nguyen
Master of Landscape Architecture candidate, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, University of Adelaide
Dong Truong Nguyen
PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland
Hong Xuan Nguyen Thi
PhD candidate, Population, University of Adelaide
Nguyen Van Suu
PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU
Trang Quynh Nguyen
Fulbright Economics Teaching Program, University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City
Michael Palmer
MA candidate, International Relations, University of New South Wales
Lorraine Paterson
Ph.D candidate, History, Yale University; ANU Southeast Asian Studies Fellow
Pham Quynh Phuong
PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Politics, La Trobe University
Pham Van Hung
PhD candidate, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Sydney
Ann Proctor
PhD candidate, Art History and Theory, University of Sydney
Jacob Ramsay
PhD candidate, Southeast Asian History, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
Malte Stokhof
PhD candidate, Faculty of Cultural Anthropology and Social Sciences, Free University of Amsterdam
Claire Sutherland
German Technical Co-operation Office, Hanoi
Lisa Toohey
PhD candidate, Law, University of Queensland
Tran Phi Phuong
PhD candidate, Women’s Studies and Sociology, School of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, University of Adelaide
Thi Hong Hanh Vu
Master of Landscape Architecture candidate, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, University of Adelaide
Dr Ashley Carruthers (Anthropology, migration, transnational networks, popular culture)
http://www.anu.edu.au/AandA/staff.asp
Dr Thai Duy Bao (Linguistics, Vietnamese language)
http://vsaa.anu.edu.au/academics/register-academics-Bao.html
Dr Nola Cooke (17th -19th century history, trade, religion)
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/people/personal/cookn_pah.html
Professor Amareswar Galla (Cultural heritage, culture and development)
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/people/personal/galla_gsshd.html
Professor Terrence Hull (Demography, social change, gender and sexuality)
http://demography.anu.edu.au/People/Staff/terry.html
Professor Ben Kerkvliet (Political science, state/society relations, comparative politics)
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/polsoc/psc-bjk.html
Dr Tom Kompas (Economics, development, natural resource and agricultural economics)
http://apseg.anu.edu.au/staff/tkompas.php
Dr Suiwah Leung (Economics and economic development)
http://apseg.anu.edu.au/staff/sleung.php
Dr Li Tana (17th and 18th century Vietnamese and Southeast Asian history)
http://vsaa.anu.edu.au/academics/register-academics-LI.html
Dr Yuk Chu Liu (Economics and gender differentiation)
http://apseg.anu.edu.au/staff/aliu.php
Professor David G. Marr (History, intellectuals, 20th century revolution, politics and warfare, political culture)
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/people/personal/marrd_pah.html
Dr Philip Taylor (Anthropology, popular culture, religion, ethnicity, contemporary history)
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/people/personal/taylp_ant.html
Dr Mandy Thomas (Anthropology, cultural studies, urban culture, transnationalism, disaporic studies)
http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/n_people/staff/mandy_1.htm
The ANU Vietnam Studies Summer School organizing committee gratefully acknowledges the generous financial and logistical support received from the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies and the National Institute for Asia and the Pacific
Honours level and postgraduate students enrolled in a course of study at an Australian or New Zealand university have been awarded a scholarship to partici|e in the summer school. These scholarships have been provided by the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies and the National Institute for Asia and the Pacific, ANU. The scholarships partially offset the cost of accommodation, living expenses and travel for participants who are resident outside of Canberra.
The Vietnam Studies Summer School is part of an ANU initiative called Asia Pacific Week, designed to introduce and make available to researchers the scholarly resources on Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University.
The venue for the week will be the McDonald room of the Menzies Library, ANU.
For more information about the 2004 Vietnam Studies Summer School contact:
Dr Philip Taylor