The Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Union College Partnership for Global Education invite interested faculty to attend a weekend symposium at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 22-24 February, entitled “Vietnam: Transition and Transformation.” The symposium is underwritten by the U.S. Department of Education UISFL grant to HWS and Union for enhancement of Vietnamese language and studies on our campuses.

We are able to provide a modest stipend and meals for up to twenty-two faculty members who register for the entire weekend program, and to provide transportation costs and housing for those registrants who need them. (This is in addition to the eight faculty members who participated in the January study tour.) Non-registrants may participate in any sessions that interest them, and meals at nominal cost as space allows.

Faculty who wish to register for the entire weekend symposium please send a letter of interest and commitment to be received by 5pm on Wednesday, 13 February to:

Tom D’Agostino
Executive Director, PGE A
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva, NY 14456 Geneva, NY 14456
or
Jeremy Gelle
Associate Director, OCP
Hobart and William Smith Colleges

or email tdagostino@hws.edu or geller@hws.edu

The letter should contain a substantive statement on your research or teaching interest in Vietnam, to be weighed in the event that the number of applicants exceeds available support resources. Statements of interest for non-registrants would be appreciated as well so that we can anticipate space and food requirements.

Tentative schedule:

Friday, 22 February
7pm Reception and Gallery Opening
Artist, Author, C. David Thomas
Fashion Designer, Ngo Thai Uyen
Graphic Designer, Nguyen Long
Painter, Nguyen Thi Phuong Duyen

9pm Film Screening: “Precious Cargo” -- Documentary Filmmaker, Janet Gardner (The Gardner Documentary Group)

Saturday, 23 February
8am Continental Breakfast (open to all)

8:30 Seminar: Historian and Ho Chi Minh biographer, William Duiker ((Penn State; e.g., Sacred War: Nationalism and Revolution in a Divided Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh: A Life)

10:30 Seminar: Contemporary Arts and Reconciliation, C. David Thomas (Indochina Arts Partnership, Boston)

Lunch -- Keynote address by author, Lady Borton (e.g., After Sorrow, Sensing the Enemy: An American Woman among the Boat People of Vietnam) (fee for non-registrants)

1:30 Seminar: Steven Leibo, Vietnam and World Relations (The Sage Colleges, e.g., East, Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific)

3:30 Seminar: Edward Tick, War Trauma and Psychotherapy (e.g.., Sacred Mountain: Encounters with the Vietnam Beast)

6pm Dinner (fee for non-registrants)

7pm Musical Performance and Explication - Phong Nguyen Ensemble (NEA National Heritage Fellow)

9pm Film Screening: “A World Beneath the War” -- Janet Gardner

Sunday, 24 February
8am Continental Breakfast (open to all)

8:30 Seminar: Le Hoai Trung, Minister Counsellor, Permanent Mission of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the United Nations

10:30 Panel Discussion

Web Sites, FYI:
Borton: http://www.tuvy.com/resource/books/authors/b/Borton_Lady.html
Duiker: http://www.hyperionbooks.com/books/2000fall/hochiminh.htm
Gardner: http://www.pbs.org/itvs/preciouscargo/story.html
Leibo: http://www.sage.edu/RSC/programs/globcomm/leibo.html
Nguyen: http://www.phong-nguyen.com/
Thomas: http://www.thingsasian.com/goto_article/article.668.html
http://www.hochiminh.org
http://www.iapone.org
Tick: http://www.mentorthesoul.com/vietnam
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