2025-06-28 –, Medallion CD
This panel will examine links between Vietnamese and American Revolutionary Feminists, Revising
the Teaching of Vietnamese Communist Party History, and Modernism and Resistance in Thuận’s novel, Chinatown.
Vietnam, Vietnamese, Communist Party, Revoutionary Feminism, Teaching, curriculum, stream of conciousness, modernism, resisitance, Indochina
Links between Antiwar and Anti-Imperialist Feminist Activists in the U. S. and Canada and Their Counterparts in Indochina during the Vietnam War
Abstract for Additional Participant 1:This paper examines conferences and meetings linking Revolutionary Feminists in the US Pacific Northwest and Canada to Their Counterparts in Indochina
Title for Additional Participant 2:Making Changes in Teaching Vietnamese Communist Party History in Vietnamese Universities
Abstract for Additional Participant 2:Improving student understanding of the Vietnamese Communist Party and its role in contemporary politics though active learning stratgies
Title for Additional Participant 3:Two New Anti-War Films: The Tunnels (Vietnam) and the Movement and the Madman (USA)
Abstract for Additional Participant 3:Vietnam now has its own “Platoon,” only better from a world history point of view, a haunting intimate, and intense portrayal of combatants where the bravery of both Vietnamese and Americans is portrayed, with Americans seen not as demons, but on the wrong side of history. The Movement and the Madman details the success of the as anti-war movement actions in 1972 to deter Richard Nixon from a late escalation of the war and towards acceptance of what became the Peace Accords in Paris that ended the American War in Vietnam. A clip from “The Movement and the Madman” will be shown, and its director will call in to answer questions.
Title for Additional Participant 4:Discussant
