A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety by Allen Tran (University of California Press: 2023) In A Life of Worry, Allen L. Tran…
Hội An is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Quảng Nam province in Central Việt Nam. In the daylight, Hội An dazzles with architectural riches reflecting its…
John Hutnyk Tomar naam amar naam Vietnam Vietnam Folk styles and solidarity in the Bengali new wave cinemaDownload
A much slicker photo of HCMC/Saigon last night than I could ever get on my phone (or with any kit probably) – lifted with thanks from Vietnam Travel…
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. A small tube–house café near the edge of campus, the front ground floor open and front and back balconies clear on three sides, with people sitting reading…
No, you can’t! My wife has just politely asked if she can take a picture of a mural in a Korean restaurant we pass in Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi.…
Recorded February 18 2025 at Ton Duc Thang University, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Sorry, had put this on youtube but not on here – multisocialmediafail# – but what a good talk!
Vu Hong Lien. Rice and Baguette: A History of Food in Vietnam. Reaktion Press. London: 2016 ISBN: 9781780236575. pp.252. Richard Zimmer Sonoma State University In her Introduction,&nb…
some random thoughts on coffee… My interest is more (only) as a consumer, but coming from Australia, the speciality coffee thing seems to have hit early with the…
The Soviet documentary maker Roman Karmen at Điện Biên Phủ in 1954 From this English language Doco: His film on Vietnam here:
After an amazing match… in which Xuan Son bent his leg way out of shape, and that final rolling goal… I’d watched the second half of the game…
This evening’s moth world visitor seems to be (fact check please) Lygniodes vampyrus. Is it an omen for the working day… https://wp.me/pcKI3-3sO . Previous visitors here, also in…
Prof Nikos Papastergiadis ISSH2024 4 parts – keynote presentation to ISSH2024, the 3rd International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities, at Ton Duc Thang University…
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Here is Antony Gormley’s presentation of work at the ISSH2024 conference at Ton Duc Thang University this weekend just gone. This was the 3rd International conference on Innovations…
https://ssh.tdtu.edu.vn/truong-dai-hoc-ton-duc-thang-chuc-hoi-thao-quoc-te-ve-khoa-hoc-xa-hoi-va-nhan-van-lan-3-issh-2024 Trường Đại học Tôn Đức Thắng tổ chức Hội thảo quốc tế về Khoa học xã hội v…
ISSH2024 conference preparations in a tangle, but looking ready. As ever, a truly amazing effort by team KHOA XH&NV see issh2024.tdtu.edu.vn
So many great lines of parody and insight: “Did anyone ask John F. Kennedy if he … ate potatoes every night”. Excellent soundtrack… I am interested to discuss…
I am presently reading a chapter in the monumental Fowler Museum exhibition catalog The Art of Rice: Spirit and Sustenance in Asia (Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of…
“[T]he climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination.” Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2015), p.9. “We are…