Tag: History
SDSU Lecture: The Vietnam War: 1965-75 [Video]
Lecture on The Vietnam War, from US escalation in 1965 to the fall of Saigon in 1975.
EWC Talk: North Korea and Myanmar: Divergent Paths
When & Where Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018, 12pm – 1pm Room 3012 (Third floor), John A. Burns Hall About the Talk Please RSVP at 944-7111 or EWCInfo@EastWestCenter.org Free & open to the public but seating is limited. The stories of North Korea and Myanmar (Burma) are two of Asia’s most difficult. For decades they were […]
Dr. Miriam Stark to Give Series of Talks in February
Dr. Miriam Stark, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, will give a series of talks at Duke, USC, and UCLA in the month of February. Her research broadly examines examines political and economic transformations in Southeast Asia, with foci on settlement structure and economy
Talk: Ocean History as Inter-Asia History
About the Talk What does the promise of ocean history — as distinct from oceanic or maritime history — mean for Asian Studies? How does the emergent field of ocean history open up new spaces for knowing Asia and reshape our perception of the national, regional, and disciplinary boundaries that ground (and bound) area studies […]
Christianity, Conversion, and Overseas Chinese in 17th Century Manila
Dr. Barbara Andaya will talk about the interaction between first-generation Christian missionaries and the largely Hokkien-speaking Chinese in Spanish Manila between 1582 and 1663.
Writing Histories in SE Asia
Join us on Oct. 13 for a talk by Dr. Leonard Andaya and Dr. Barbara Andaya on “Writing Regional and National Histories in Southeast Asia”.
The Andayas on Early Modern Southeast Asia
Barbara Watson Andaya and Leonard Andaya’s discuss their writing of a regional history of ‘early modern’ Southeast Asia in their 2015 Golay lecture at Cornell.
