Thư viện Nguyễn Văn Hưởng

This talk examines the role of state-sponsored libraries within the landscape of print culture and reading public in late colonial Vietnam. I consider how library administrators and government officials defined ‘good reading’ as didactic, politically safe, and vulgarizing reading matter. Through the specific project of the Cochinchina Library bibliobus or xe sách [book wagon],* I reveal how colonial print…

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The talk on City of Art: State, market and the urban reinvention of Shanghai and The Rise of the Art Fair in Hong Kong is now online! Please join session B >>here<< with 2 speakers on Vietnamese art: Session B1: Kissinger’s Letters in an Art Museum? Danh Vo’s Historical Provocations on Display at the Guggenheim Date: 23/03/2021 19:00-19:45 Venue:…

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AAS 2021 VIRTUAL Annual Conference – March 21-26, 2021 The AAS is excited to welcome you to the 2021 Annual Conference, a virtual event. No matter where you are in the world, immerse yourself into the latest research, information and resources in Asian Studies while networking with colleagues from all over the globe. All conference…

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Voices of Culture: Pamela Nguyen Corey Reimagining Vietnam: Contemporary Art and History Difficulty (Center for Philosophy of Freedom, University of Arizona) Register now: https://freedomcenter.arizona.edu/registration-pamela… Professor Pamela Nguyen Corey is Faculty Member in Arts at Fulbright University Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City. She researches and teaches modern and contemporary art history, with a focus on Southeast…

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THÔNG BÁO HỘI THẢO QUỐC TẾ VIỆT NAM HỌC LẦN THỨ VI (Trung tâm hội nghị Quốc gia Việt Nam – Hà Nội, 15-16 tháng 7 năm 2021) Trong bối cảnh của cuộc Cách mạng Công nghệ 4.0 và hội nhập khu vực và quốc tế ngày càng sâu rộng, khoa học và công nghệ…

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